Nathan "Nate" Phelps (born November 22, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, LGBT rights activist, and public speaker on the topics of religion and child abuse.
He is the sixth-born of the 13 children of Fred Phelps, from whom he – along with three of his siblings – had been estranged since his 18th birthday in 1976 until his father's death in 2014.
Phelps permanently left Westboro Baptist Church in 1980 and has since publicly censured the group.Other members of the Phelps family have also left, most recently Megan Phelps-Roper in 2012 and Zach Phelps-Roper in February 2014.