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Well, I agree with a lot of people. One of my first thoughts when I saw the picture to go with the article on Yahoo was that of pedophile creepiness -- or look -- another topic for a Law and Order: SVU. I think this scares me more than those "Jesus Camps" that there's been numerous articles (and a movie?) about.
I think my biggest problem with this is that there is nothing for mothers or sons. What about mother-daughter relationships? To me this whole thing screams of an attempt to return to virgin brides, dowries and marriage equaling "till death do us part."
I suspect that this, at least in part, is to combat the divorce statistics and decreasing marriage statistics. People aren't marrying as soon - or as often. But divorce rates aren't as scary.* The fact that religion is part of this..brainwashing..err.. teaching isn't really even the point/or problem in my mind. It's just that it's no surprise this is coming from fundamentalist Christians. That and it's further proof that the mainly Christian society of America has some catching up to do. The concept of virgin equaling clean and pure and better is something that people need to stop believing in.
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