If you had suspected that evangelical Christianity promotes sexual purity as an ideal that only women are responsible for upholding, then the exposure of Patrick Henry College's systemic sexual assault college will not come as a surprise.
Nowadays, you can't swing an IUD around without it smacking a pro-life evangelical Christian right in the bloody fetus protest sign. But did you know that all of these eternal Biblical truths religious conservatives trot out in making their argument that life begins at conception are actually at odds with much more…
Sometimes, gendered messages to children are subtly coded. And sometimes, as in the case of the Christian Royal Purpose camps, boys are sword-rattling warrior princes and girls are pink-clad princesses. Check out these videos.
Xtreme Ministries "is one of a small but growing number of evangelical churches that have embraced mixed martial arts...to reach and convert young men, whose church attendance has been persistently low." [NYT, Image via Fred R. Conrad/NYT]
