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Related: About this forumRoy Moore allegations prompt reflections on fundamentalist culture in which some Christian men date
Source: Washington Post
By Julie Zauzmer November 13 at 1:57 PM
When Roy Moore, then 34 years old, asked 17-year-old Debbie Wesson Gibson whether she would date him, Gibson asked her mother what she would think.
According to The Washington Posts investigation into Moores alleged pursuit of teenage girls, which was published Thursday, Gibsons mother replied, Id say you were the luckiest girl in the world.
That attitude of encouraging teenage girls to date older men, rather than shielding girls from mens advances, sounded familiar to some people who read the Post story that has shaken Moores bid for the U.S. Senate.
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That courtship of underage girls is especially common in conservative religious communities.
We should probably talk about how there is a segment of evangelicalism and home-school culture where the only thing Roy Moore did wrong was initiating sexual contact outside of marriage. 14 year old girls courting adult men isnt entirely uncommon, Kathryn Brightbill, who works for the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, tweeted Friday, prompting a flurry of responses from other people who also had watched teenagers date much older Christian men.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/11/13/roy-moore-allegations-prompt-reflections-on-fundamentalist-culture-in-which-some-christian-men-date-teens/
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)What's the big deal
CatMor
(6,212 posts)teenage girls should be with their peers having fun. What is wrong with these so called Christians. They are sick in the head.
AJT
(5,240 posts)homemaking and keeping her husband satisfied. This is true in all fundamentalist religious practices. The younger the girl starts the better. At the home of her parents she is only another mouth to feed.
enough
(13,270 posts)across many religions. In fact you could say it is one of the bedrock principles of fundamentalist religion.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)The more traditional (read: conservative) the culture, the more likely children are to follow in their parents' footsteps.
Sociologists Uecker and Stokes published a study on early marriage back in 2008 that is definitely worth a read. You can find it here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20305796. The full article should be free on PubMed.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)MineralMan
(146,351 posts)If they like young girls, they decide that's OK. That's why.
keithbvadu2
(37,051 posts)"14 year old girls courting adult men isnt entirely uncommon,
That makes the child the 'aggressor'.
A common rationale for pedophiles.