I know there's a lot of control over members, and everything is dictated and controlled in terms of what members can do. As you're doing press for your book, are you used to GLAMOUR: Since being in the eye of the media was the goal of the Westboro Baptist Church, you're used to speaking out and speaking up. She spoke to Glamour about her indoctrination, her eventual expulsion, and how she's rebuilding her life-including repairing her faith, her foundation, and saying sorry to those she's hurt. Now 27, Drain tells her side of the story about life as a member of the infamous hate group in Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church (Grand Central), out March 5. Her father and sister had just driven her to a local motel and dropped her off, told her she was never to speak to them again, and that she'd been banished from the Westboro Baptist Church-the group known for picketing funerals of fallen soldiers, homosexuals, and AIDS victims, and most recently attempting to picket those of the Sandy Hook Elementary victims-for exchanging online communication with a boy who'd been interested in learning about the church. The first thing Lauren Drain did after her family disowned her was walk to a local drugstore, buy poster board and markers, and list out her sins.
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