\u2022 Franklin Graham<\/a>: still awful. He wouldn\u2019t be spouting such nasty stuff on TV if his father was still alive.<\/p>\n \u2022 Congratulations to Dianna E. Anderson for reaching a vital milestone with the evangelical audience. You haven\u2019t really arrived until Christianity Today<\/em> officially denounces you as a danger to the morals of the youth<\/a>. It\u2019s a bit of a perfunctory, fill-in-the-blanks piece of hand-wringing, with CT\u2019s<\/em> patented faux-lamentation, always \u201cmore in sadness than in anger.\u201d But they spelled her\u00a0name right and the Streisand effect will, happily, help to spread the word about Anderson\u2019s book<\/a>, and that\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n For those keeping score at home, this article also marks a key milestone for the important critique of evangelical purity culture being made by Anderson and dozens of other whipsmart young Christian women. The review abandons any attempt to defend<\/em> purity culture against this critique, opting instead for the old dismissal-by-concession trick \u2014 the preferred strategy of those seeking a softer landing after\u00a0having utterly lost the argument. Reviewer Gina Dalfonzo repeatedly refers to the \u201cwidely documented problems\u201d of purity culture and its \u201cfaulty teaching\u201d \u2014 hand-waving away the substance of this critique\u00a0as old news that she hopes readers won\u2019t pay any further attention to. It\u2019s the attempt to shift directly from ignoring<\/em> an argument in the hopes that it will go away to conceding<\/em> the argument in the hopes that it will go away.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s not going away.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cWhen women hate men, we hurt their feelings. When men hate women, they kill us<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Remember the horrifying story from last year of two 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin who allegedly stabbed a classmate 19 times in a delusional attempt to please the fictional monster Slenderman? Well, now the story has gotten worse. The state of Wisconsin has declared that it, too, believes in fictional monsters. The two young suspects will be tried as adults<\/a>.<\/p>\n There is no such thing as Slenderman. There is no such thing as a 12-year-old adult. Every judge and prosecutor who has ever sought to try a juvenile \u201cas an adult\u201d winds up echoing every awful thing that every statutory rapist has ever said. It\u2019s absurd nonsense. No law or legal authority allows a court to magically declare\u00a0that a 12-year-old is not a 12-year-old.<\/p>\n \u2022 Cyndi Lauper 10,000; Family Research Council 0<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2015\/03\/Screen-shot-2015-03-16-at-12.35.56-PM-300x261.png\")
<\/a>\u2022 \u201cWords are inadequate for me to say how honored I was to be the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award. This award will remain among my most cherished possessions.\u201d \u2014 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 1966<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n