Doug Phillips “Clarifies” His Resignation Statement

“Doug Phillips, one of the most powerful men in fundamentalist quiverfull homeschooling, a lawyer/pastor/leader, took advantage of a girl who had been taught all her life to submit to her father and to male leadership. This was not a relationship between two consenting equals. The power imbalance is staggeringly huge.”

The Stones You Cast, The Tables You Built

“That one verse about casting stones, that verse of grace and freedom, it is twisted into the heaviest gag order by the very Pharisees it was meant to condemn. We saw this last week when Doug Phillips resigned due to an affair. It took but a few hours before John 8 started dropping like the bass in a dubstep song.”

How Doug Phillips Wreaked Havoc on My Family

“My family was utterly rent to shreds during that period, and all because I deigned to think that I, as an adult, ought to be able to make up my own mind and make my own choices. I know he is not to blame for all of it, but I lay much of what happened during that time at the feet of Doug Phillips. That man and his ministry have caused me and my family an incredible amount of pain.”

To My Sister and the Vision Forum Victim No One’s Talking About

“For ten years, I homeschooled my three children full-time. And during that decade, I came across all kinds of families, systems, philosophies, and curriculum. I went to the conventions, read the books, did my research. And during that decade, I learned who the big-wigs were, the poster families, the ones ‘we’ the homeschooling community most wanted to emulate.”

Pulling the Victoria’s Secret Dance

“In fundamentalist and conservative evangelical circles, a woman is to keep her husband sexually satisfied. It’s part of her job description as wife. In fact, not a few leaders would go so far as to tell women that one way to cure a cheating husband is to put out more, and better, to become a porn star in the bedroom so that their husbands are no longer tempted to cheat.”

He Does Not Represent God to Me: The Resignation of Doug Phillips, by Kristi-Joy Matovich

“For me personally, this is a hopeful moment. It is the removal of someone from my extended sphere of influence. It gives me an opportunity to express my difficulty with someone who has long been held up as a god in the homeschooling community. It gives me hope that perhaps things can change for the better. It especially reminds me that this particular man does not represent God to me — and I never have to think that he does.”

Doug Phillips Resigns from Vision Forum, Cancels Speaking Events, Due to “Inappropriate” Relationship

“Earlier today, Doug Phillips resigned as president of Vision Forum and discontinued future speaking engagements. Doug Phillips is a former attorney for HSLDA. As an HSLDA attorney, he was the architect behind what is probably HSLDA’s most significant legal event: rallying opposition to H.R. 6. He also was one of the main speakers at the 2009 Men’s Leadership Summit. Phillips resigned because he ‘engaged in a lengthy, inappropriate relationship with a woman.'”