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In reply to the discussion: 'You are married to the Lord and your daddy is your boyfriend': [View all]Beacool
(30,518 posts)49. Exactly!!!
Imagine the outrage if they did this with boys and the moms became their "girlfriends".
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Yes, for a grown man to give a child what looks like a wedding band is creepy.
Beacool
Mar 2014
#115
The "girls in prom dresses carrying a cross" thing was mega-disturbing as well
Ken Burch
Mar 2014
#183
Hadn't caught that. Gives it even more of a "Manos" or Nordic death metal video feeling. n/t.
Ken Burch
Mar 2014
#191
Maybe the repeated cuckoldry is what makes god such a pissy, murderous psychopath?
Tom Ripley
Mar 2014
#179
That was my first thought: some creep is going to read about this and join up for the wrong reasons.
tofuandbeer
Mar 2014
#193
No, the mother isn't to blame, but, I would love to hear how they rationalize their
blueamy66
Mar 2014
#74
I don't think that they are awful. I just wondered why they allow this to occur?
blueamy66
Mar 2014
#92
If they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks, they're gonna send you back to mother
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2014
#142
plenty of women allow themselves to be "given away" by their father to their husband
Skittles
Mar 2014
#190
I am surprised that you are shocked by this. It is the basic mentality of a frighteningly large
StevieM
Mar 2014
#240
Kids like the Duggars have no other frame of reference. They are brainwashed from birth (eom)
StevieM
Mar 2014
#237
This would be the smiley face of my choice to express the creepiness level of this article.
Beacool
Mar 2014
#24
You were lucky in that sense. Plenty of girls have fathers who claim sovereignty over
StevieM
Mar 2014
#239
Nuns have been called "Brides of Christ" for a long time -- it's a very common term.
Arugula Latte
Mar 2014
#75
Never heard that one either....despite 13 years of Catholic school education
blueamy66
Mar 2014
#118
I'm afraid the change is glacial, imperceptible to most people with normal life spans
Warpy
Mar 2014
#117
I was raised Catholic (now atheist), but I look back and see the it was a nice part of growing up.
tofuandbeer
Mar 2014
#195
While I don't trust the Daily Mail, this story seems sadly to be confirmed by several sources
LeftishBrit
Mar 2014
#28
Yes, and they vow only to have anal sex until marriage because how else can they
valerief
Mar 2014
#52
Not sex for the female but certainly sex for the male, and that's all that matters, after all.
valerief
Mar 2014
#63
Purity nuts, purity balls... something is happening lingusitically here that is
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2014
#136
from 2008 -- BUT -- it shows the problem with 'purity balls' - they don't use contraception
xchrom
Mar 2014
#58
For a far superior source than the Daily Fail read Jessica Valenti's 2010 book "The Purity Myth"
alp227
Mar 2014
#60
I would LOVE to see a study done of these girls as they go through their lives. I will bet that
Squinch
Mar 2014
#62
The roots are in the same freakout from the 60s when teenagers "did their own thing".
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2014
#93
My mother once wondered how many bad marriages result from an obsession with "purity"
dflprincess
Mar 2014
#99
Stepford redux. Religion makes a lot of people do a lot of totally fucked up weird shit to kids.
Zorra
Mar 2014
#119
If you feel this strongly that you need to "protect" your teen daughter's chastity
NickB79
Mar 2014
#121
Why, if they think this is such a good thing, don't they do this for boys? nt
SunSeeker
Mar 2014
#150
To have and to hold" is a legal phrase used in deeds and other property transfer.
no_hypocrisy
Mar 2014
#158
They are challenged by the fathers to see how many babes they can bang before marriage.
Kablooie
Mar 2014
#223
Daddy's primary concern is the state of his daughters privates. creepy and wrong
Liberal_in_LA
Mar 2014
#170
What often happens is that they are bullied into giving the baby up for adoption.
StevieM
Mar 2014
#238
The article sucks for saying that this shit is "sweeping America". It's not. nt
Captain Stern
Mar 2014
#184
Tell me… did their FATHERS remain "pure" before they fucked their mothers?
MrMickeysMom
Mar 2014
#208
SO creepy in that it implies the father has 'first rights.' A better Dad always respects her choices
joanbarnes
Mar 2014
#215