“Elizabeth Smart Shares How Teaching Chastity the Wrong Way at Church Has Harmful, Lasting Effects”

We cannot and must not abandon the standards that the Lord has revealed.

However, we also cannot and must not ignore the (umm, rather centrally important) doctrine of the atonement of Christ, and of repentance, grace, and forgiveness.

Elizabeth Smart raises an important issue here to which we need to give serious reflection:

http://www.ldsliving.com/Elizabeth-Smart-Shares-How-Chastity-Lessons-in-Our-Culture-Can-Have-Harmful-Lasting-Effects/s/83107?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email

I served as an expert witness for the prosecution in the federal case against Brian David Mitchell, the man who abducted Elizabeth Smart, both at his competency hearing and, a year later, in his actual criminal trial.  Manifestly, it was Mitchell, not Elizabeth Smart, who was the wrongdoer in that story.  She was an innocent victim.  She had done nothing of which she needed to repent.