“He was going to stop narcotics. She seemed assured and left me there with him. I remember trembling again as she left. The church only believed in divorce upon the grounds of physical abuse and adultery.”
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“When I speak of the ‘Quiverfull movement’ I really mean all of those who are influenced by Quiverfull ideas, not simply those who go all the way and reject birth control entirely. For me, the idea of raising children to be arrows shot into the world is a more important part of Quiverfull than is a complete rejection of birth control.”
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“Here are ten things that are more important to teach than abstinence.”
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“Just how close is the homeschool fundamentalist version of Patriarchy to the Islamic version? I think it’s pretty darn close. Check this out. Remember this from Christian Homeschool Leader and Pastor Kevin Swanson?”
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“These days, stories of ex-Quiverfull moms and their ‘quivering daughters’ are multiplying on the Internet like rabbits in the spring. The fruit of the movement has not turned out to be sweet; we deal with health problems, poverty, anxiety, depression, PTSD, eating disorders, cutting, sexual abuse, emotional incest, and divorce.”
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“I felt like all these people were flocking around me to praise God, without really caring about the state of my mind, body, or heart. They just wanted to hear a testimony. There, with the stress, the frustration at church, and the knowledge my solution was a villified little pill, I had a panic attack in the middle of all those women.”
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