\u201cSexting and Christian Modesty,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Swanson and Bruehner propose that liberals want pre-teen and early teen girls \u201csexing\u201d it up all over the place, whereas biblically-based Christians should want them . . . \u201csexing\u201d it up at that age only in marriage?<\/p>\nGenerations with Vision describes the program in the following way: \u201cPublic junior high schools are doing more sexting, and Kevin Swanson recommends a biblical view of womanhood and modesty for Christian families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starting at the 13:45 mark, Swanson and Bruehner mount a defense of Phil Robertson\u2019s advocacy for child marriage. Shortly thereafter, Swanson presents his own ideas about child marriage. The transcript of the section is as follows:<\/p>\n
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Kevin Swanson:<\/strong><\/p>\nRemember that one concern people had over Duck Dynasty, when the guy came out and said the girls, 15 or 16 years of age, she\u2019s able to get married, they got all mad. Because boy, you get a girl married at 15 or 16 years of age, that\u2019s a sin!<\/p>\n
Dave Bruehner:<\/strong><\/p>\nWell it is because she doesn\u2019t have a whole life of fornication ahead of her anymore.<\/p>\n
Swanson:<\/strong><\/p>\nYeah!<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Bruehner<\/strong>:<\/p>\nI mean, there\u2019s a whole junior high, soon to be a high school, there\u2019s the staff, there\u2019s the janitors, there\u2019s\u2026 there\u2019s the police department, there are so many sexual opportunities for a young woman that are cut off if she actually commits to one guy and tries to live a pure life.<\/p>\n
Swanson:<\/strong><\/p>\nYeah! Yeah! So see, again, the liberals are really excited about getting the kids doing as much fornication as possible. But the rest of us are saying, \u201cHey, what about God\u2019s law? What about God\u2019s law?\u201d By the way, nothing in God\u2019s law that would prohibit a young girl who\u2019s ready to get married, at 15 or 16 years of age \u2014 now it takes some wisdom, it takes some wisdom \u2014 but nothing in God\u2019s law that forbids \u2014 it\u2019s not like immoral. There\u2019s nothing in God\u2019s law: \u201cit\u2019s immoral for a 15 or 16 year old to get married.\u201d<\/p>\n
By the way, my grandmother was married at 15. I think it was 15. My grandmother on my father\u2019s side was married at 15. It was during the Great Depression. Her father had died and her mother was trying to provide for the 5 kids or whatever. So you know it just made sense. She was 15 years old, she was ready to get married. So that kind of thing has happened, friends. But a sin! A sin in a modern world?<\/p>\n
I mean, think about what the president of the Girl Scouts would say about this, Dave, if we said, \u201cHey, these 15 year old girls, 16 year old girls, they may be ready to get married. They don\u2019t have to live these, you know, independent lifestyles.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Quick note by Libby Anne: As a word of explanation, Kevin Swanson is a fairly well known leader in the Christian homeschooling movement. He has previously denounced the bloggers at Homeschoolers Anonymous as \u201capostates,\u201d and is a staunch defender of Christian patriarchy. With the fall of Doug Phillips, Swanson will likely be one of the many contenders to fill his shoes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Swanson and Dave Bruehner have now publicly joined with Phil Robertson (in particular) and Matthew Chapman (in general) in defense of child marriage. In their latest Generations with Vision broadcast, \u201cSexting and Christian Modesty,\u201d Swanson and Bruehner propose that liberals want pre-teen and early teen girls \u201csexing\u201d it up all over the place, whereas biblically-based Christians should want them . . . \u201csexing\u201d it up at that age only in marriage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,25,12],"tags":[387,370,106,388,389],"class_list":["post-19764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschool","category-christian-patriarchy","category-purity","tag-child-marriage","tag-kevin-swanson","tag-marriage-2","tag-matthew-chapman","tag-phil-robertson"],"yoast_head":"\n
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