That’s what they do when they want to do something but don’t want to take responsibility for it.

Sure. Good. Great. I mean why the fuck not? At this point she’d be the intellectual and moral touchstone of the GOP.

It’s because Kirk and the rest of his demon ilk are without a doubt fully vaccinated and have been for months. It’s as cynical and evil as it is totally predictable. Sure the rubes will die, but not before they send out some of those sweet campaign/PAC donations!

I didn’t say my childhood was anti-religious. My mother belonged to a “christian” church (non-denom and evangelical now) church after leaving the Catholic Church due to abuse. My dad is not religious at all. But I did have religion in my life and my husband is a recovering Catholic like my mom. Still, the shame and…

I was kicked out of the Christian school I attended and was lectured by my pastor after being raped at 15. My rapist went to the same school and they allowed him to finish his senior year via correspondence classes so he could graduate with his class through the school. I wasn’t offered any such opportunity. The…

Evangelical “purity” culture is nothing more than codifying abusive practices into a cohesive dogma, packaging that dogma as religious and then marketing it as as a righteous necessity. I say this as an ex-evangelical raised in an abusive home. Its core is rotten, because it’s fundamentally built on abusive practices…

As a guy, you better believe I enjoy sex but I can’t comprehend forcing your partner into appeasing your sexual appetites like this. How is that enjoyable???

People: he occasionally says the word ‘modest’ around my phone in hopes the phone overlords hear him. He isn’t actually using my phone or doing anything other than once and a while poke fun at the social media algorithm when it’s already part of a conversation. The algorithm is easily enough set back by me liking a…

That 1 Corinthians reference cited in the article is specifically written by Paul, who was celibate (supposedly) and very clearly thought poorly of women (nevermind how Jesus himself treated them!). Most certainly the type of person who should be prescribing a frequency standard within others’ sex lives...

I saw the results of purity culture firsthand about 8 years ago when I was on Tinder and the dating scene after years in a long term, consensual fun passionate sex-filled relationship. (We broke up for out-of-bedroom incompatibility issues).

Her and her brother are both shit heads who use social media to trick people into getting saved. Their brand of religion has caused more harm than good, it took me YEARS to deprogram my thought process once I got out of the Evangelical church. So yeah, I don’t get why she needs to be defended, she doesn’t get to have…

It cannot be understated how prevalent and powerful purity culture messaging was and is for *millions* of people in the Christian world. It’s not just the fundies. Harris’s I Kissed Dating Goodbye sold millions, but was also recommended by youth pastors and parents and passed around as a new Bible.

Evangelical “purity” culture just amplifies the bigger cultural message that refusing sex is a failure in a marriage and that solving it just requires having sex more. Anytime my partner or I have struggled with sex it is due to something completely unrelated to our desire for physical intimacy and relates to much…

If their religion didn’t have such a death grip on the US, I’d be fine with her going off on anything she wants.

That’s because you’re not so deep into evangelical Christian culture that you can actually think for yourself.  They teach this shit and since the women don’t know any better, this happens.  

Taught never to refuse sex with her husband unless it was an absolute necessity, and paired with her then-husband’s demands, Christy was left submitting to what felt like obligatory sex and guilt over how miserable she felt.

yes this what happens when you belong to a religion that’s misogynistic to it’s core.  There’s literally no way to win. 

Oh it’s fine adoption is “accessable” so you should continue with a course that can cause irreparable damage your bones, bladder control and nether regions while posing a genuine risk to your life (seriously sort out your maternal death rate if you’re going to ban abortion).

Yeah I’m a trans woman and calling this “misgendering” feels kind of insulting, honestly. If you say you’re comfortable with two sets of pronouns, you can’t act like it’s this massively egregious thing for people to default to one or the other. I get that people always defaulting to “cis” pronouns feels like they’re…

Step 1: Issue absurdly confusing edicts about what you want to be called.