“Defrauding” or How Men Can Keep Women From Stumbling!

by Hopewell – crossposted from her blog Hopewell Takes On LIFE!   source Thanks to TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” America has discovered Bill Gothard’s idea of  “defrauding” or making men “stumble.” How does this happen? If you watch the show you know it’s because someone forgot to call out the code word “Nike” to [...]

Quoting Quiverfull: Combating Pornography?

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by Vaughn Ohlman of Persevero News So the worldly social reformer is faced with trying to tell the women themselves not to act in demeaning ways. But let’s face it, they aren’t preaching to the choir. Like the issue of gun control it is the very people they want to reach that won’t be listening.

The Jonathan Nichols Story: Growing Up Gay in the IFB Church

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by Bruce Gerencser What follows is a brief excerpt of a story about Jonathan Nichols. Jonathan grew up in the Newark Baptist Temple,  the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church ((IFB) pastored by my wife’s uncle, James Dennis.  The Pastor (Jamie) Overton

A Quick and Dirty Sex Ed Guide for Quiverfull Daughters

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by Becoming Worldly   This post is NSFW (not safe to read at work). I got the idea to write this because I read this and this and something saying that only 67% of women in some study of “mainstream Americans” reported having an orgasm

Saturday News Links: April 6, 2013

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Michigan is trying to pass a religious exemption bill that would allow health care providers to withhold care that violates their own personal religious beliefs. Example, any doctor that thinks childrens vaccines are not trusting in God could legally refuse to give recommended