Westboro Baptist Church comment on No Longer Quivering: Judge who sentenced child abuser “clearly wasn’t spanked enough as a child”

June 14, 2012 By 7 Comments
Westboro Baptist Church No Longer Quivering

by Vyckie Garrison I just came across this graphic on Facebook. We recently had someone from Westboro Baptist Church post a hate-filled, bible-thumping comment on No Longer Quivering – guess we must be doing something right to have attracted WBC’s attention. (◕‿◕✿) Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi sentenced Pastor Philip Caminiti to 2 years in [...]

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Submission and Prison Cells: Part 1

June 12, 2012 By 5 Comments
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by Melissa Permission To Live Almost five years ago, I was a devout conservative Christian. I had been married over two years, had a toddler Ms Action running around and a baby Ms Drama due in a few months. I loved my spouse beyond what I had ever thought love was when we first got [...]

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Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network New Member: Cindy – Baptist Taliban and Beyond

June 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network welcomes new member, Cindy Foster, who blogs at Baptist Taliban and Beyond. By way of introduction, Cindy writes: I was born and raised in Houston, Texas. My family were members of a wonderful Baptist church that started a Christian school in my Junior year of high school.  I graduated [...]

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Raised Quiverfull: Questioning, Q. 2

June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

by Libby Anne Raised Quiverfull Introduction — Questioning Summary Please be sure to click the above links to see an introduction to and explanation of this project, which involves a panel of nine young adults who were raised in Quiverfull families and have since questioned and left that ideology answering questions about their experiences.     What first [...]

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Snipped! Part 6: The Fun Little Church

June 8, 2012 By 3 Comments

by Incongruous Circumspection Bill Gothard’s weekly marriage class was run by Pastor John Hartzell and his young protégé, Chuck Raichert in a little Independent Fundamental Baptist Church in Bloomington, Minnesota. Normandale Baptist was the name. The seminar was called Rebuilder’s and was all about loving Jesus Christ so much that your husband or wife simply [...]

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