Can we stop calling it a mistake. It was a reckless and stupid decision. Dropping your pen is a mistake. Driving that fast, high off your rocker, through a residential area is nothing short of a selfish and shitty thing to do. I feel bad for their families, who are the real victims in this. Good thing no one else was…

So the 21-year old with a 5-year old was being irresponsible? Get out of town.

I’m sure they only apply it to men. Remember, men cheat because their needs aren’t being fulfilled by their wives. But women cheat because they’re full of original sin.

But, and I know you’re just paraphrasing what she believes/was taught. But Jesus explicitly made an exception for cases of adultery. For people that claim to be such literal readers of the scripture, I don’t quite get how they missed that.

I genuinely don’t believe Anna’s parents are capable of loving her in the way that most of us would recognize that term. The whole quiverful system is inherently objectifying: children are tools and weapons that you forge in order to use for your larger agenda. I’m sure they have some fondness or affection for their…

She’s so young, but her eyes are so dead and her countenance so defeated. Whenever I see recent pictures of them, her smile makes me so sad. I’m afraid they’ve wrung every last ounce of free will out of her.

Not to mention the biggest reason it won’t happen - those people live their entire existence in conservative “Christian” echo chamber. There would be some small hope if her indoctrination were limited to the past, but it’s a constant, ongoing thing. She’ll stay with him and the echo chamber will praise him for his…

I wish I were. It's just one of the many issues with the quivverful crazies.

That would be great for her to emerge and go, you know what I think I can be a single mother now. Sadly I don’t see it happening, the stigma we put on single mothers being the smallest reason. 6 months isn’t long enough for the 27 years of indoctrination she was born into.

And they probably make her feel responsible for the whole debacle anyway...

I think one of her sisters is divorced. Hopefully she has contact with those siblings but I doubt it. Her supportive brother was outcast for adopting because the adopted children carry the sins of their parents.

That would be all well and good if he didn’t also have accounts on OK Cupid, a secret facebook account, that alleged twitter account, his confession, that woman saying he paid for sex, etc.

Hmm. If these people really hold themselves strictly to the word of God and marriage has to be between two pure people than in the eyes of God their marriage is null and void because 1 party was not pure.

This might, just *might* be a blessing in disguise. Anna will now have six months without being forced into sex with Josh for the sole purpose of procreation and will be able to actually enjoy being a parent. The others around her might make sure they don’t starve but I doubt any of them are going to “absorb” Anna and…

There are just no winners in this story.

Well, of course it’s not Josh’s fault. It’s Satan’s fault for tempting Josh into his fortress, remember?

I feel the need to quote the amazing Frank Zappa right now.

This whole thing makes me sick.

Aside from his wife who has endured a lifetime of brainwashing, it’s being laid on extra thick now to make sure she stays by her man!

But there are KIDS. Four kids. Four kids who she is now raising by herself and with the assistance of the same people who indoctrinated the fuck out of…

Bible study and 9 hours of work per day. And this is different than what he was doing before how?

I feel horrible for Anna. She is in a tough situation, and one where I don’t think she knows how to deal with properly. She needs to start having conversations with a therapist who will listen for more than 15 minutes a week.