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I\u2019ve put up literally hundreds of posts over the past year, so I thought I\u2019d take a moment to look back at the ten posts that got the most traffic. Unfortunately, something got reset when I moved my blog to Patheos this past March, so this list is actually the top ten posts of the last ten months. I\u2019ll add a moment of commentary after each.<\/p>\n

1o.\u00a0So you say you don\u2019t hate gay people, Part IV<\/a><\/p>\n

This post was the one where I introduced the sexual ethics graph I later highlighted in my post A Tale of Two Boxes<\/a>. My attempt to explain contrasting sexual ethics grabbed so much attention at the time that I\u2019m not surprised this post made the top ten list.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0When It Really Is about Controlling Women<\/a><\/p>\n

In this post I talked about the way \u201cresponsibility\u201d is invoked in discussions of abortion, pointing out that when the focus is on \u201cresponsibility\u201d rather than on the argument that zygotes, embryos, and fetuses are people, there\u2019s no way whatsoever to hide the reality that being anti-abortion is about trying to control women. This idea became important enough that I followed with another post<\/a> offering further explanation and detail.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Marital Rape? Doug Wilson on Dominance and Submission in the Marriage Bed<\/a><\/p>\n

This post was my contribution to the blogosphere discussion of a quote from one of conservative theologian Doug Wilson\u2019s past books that resurfaced this past summer. Namely, Wilson argued that every part of marriage, including sex,<\/em> ought to be characterized by dominance and submission.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Emotional Incest, Part 1: Definitions<\/a><\/p>\n

This post was the first in my four-part series on emotional incest. In a nutshell, emotional incest occurs when a parent creates an unhealthy and much too spouse-like emotional<\/em> relationship with one of his or her children. This series is probably one of the most painful things I have written.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0The Real World Damage of the Purity Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Honestly, the amount of attention this post got surprised me. All I did was post excerpts from several emails I have gotten from women whose marriages have been damaged by the teachings of the purity culture, including ideas about emotional and sexual purity.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0The Hypocrisy Burns: Voice of the Martyrs\u2019 Tom White<\/a><\/p>\n

I posted this piece immediately after Voice of the Martyrs\u2019 director, Tom White, committed suicide. I think it became popular in part because it became a top hit for those searching \u201cTom White\u201d or \u201cVoice of the Martyrs\u201d in the wake of the scandal, and also because its comment thread became a veritable goldmine of excuse making for religious child molesters.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0A Response to Objections on My Pro-Life Movement Post<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really have anything to add here, except that I put up this post in an attempt to address some of the counter arguments and points of confusion I was seeing in the wake of my post on losing faith in the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Carefully scripted lives: My concerns about the Duggars<\/a><\/p>\n

I actually posted this one last February, which means the page view total doesn\u2019t actually count those who read it immediately after I posted it. In other words, it\u2019s only on this list because it has staying power, and that, I think, is simply because a lot of people find the Duggars interesting enough to search the internet for information about them.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u201cThis is\u00a0the most important election of all time<\/em>!\u201d (again)<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the first post I ever had that went viral. The reason this happened is that I brought Focus on the Family\u2019s Letter from 2012, which they wrote in 2008, to the attention of not only readers but also other bloggers, who then blogged about it with links back to my post. And being shared over 6,000 times on facebook didn\u2019t hurt either.<\/p>\n

Next comes my number one most viewed post of all time, and anyone who has been following my blog for the past several months shouldn\u2019t have any questions as to its identity. And so, without further ado, I give you:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0How I Lost Faith in the \u201cPro-Life\u201d Movement<\/a><\/p>\n

I knew when I posted this piece that it would be well-read. I anticipated it being shared on facebook and perhaps linked back to by other bloggers. Yet even with these expectations, I was completely overwhelmed by what actually happened. This post was shared on facebook over 148,000 times and received 1,655 comments. As of today, it has received over 350,000 page views. To put that in perspective, that means that this one single post\u00a0received over\u00a0twice as many page views as I was used to getting in an entire month<\/em>. I was expecting this post to be read, but not that<\/em> read.<\/p>\n

So there you have it: my top ten posts of 2012. I\u2019ll finish by simply asking this: Which other of my posts or ideas did you find especially striking or interesting in 2012?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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