In the course of 20/20's exhaustive investigation last week into abuses and coverups within the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church (IFB), there is some penitence. Well, just a little. But not with Jack Schaap, who was shown excoriating women for being fat and not having any scriptural authority.
The same sex couple attempted to visit the museum together on the institution's "Date Night" (because nothing says "romance" like some good old fashioned fact-ignoring). The two men were denied entrance at the door by a security guard who said that the presence of a same-sex couple at the event would ruin everyone else's…
Yesterday, a group of women born into polygamy told a Canadian court, in a series of emotional statements, how the practice had ruined their lives.
Sure, everyone's heard of stay-at-home moms. But in the past decade, the Christian Patriarchy Movement has produced another offshoot: stay-at-home daughters.
Oh, wonderful. I love it when people I disdain get exactly what they want. Wait. Opposite of that. TLC (stands for The LightMyCollegeDegreeOnFire Channel) will air another 10-episode season of the Fundamentalist Point N' Gawk Hour starting in March 2011.
We'd sort of assumed that, after the suffocation death of that little boy, the ministry behind the controversial Christian strain of obedience-inducing "chastisement" had been discredited. Far from it: another child died as a result of their methods:
"Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them." What, you didn't interpret that as "have 10 children?"
