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In recent years, this country has begun to face a long-overdue reckoning when it comes to how we respond to sexual assault and domestic violence. We’ve seen time and again that victims of sexual assault don’t come forward for years, if they do so at all.
In 2018, Emily Joy Allison and Hannah Paasch launched the #ChurchToo movement as a companion to the wider #MeToo movement. Its goal was to turn the spotlight on sexual abuse in the evangelical world. According to a Mother Jones report published soon after #ChurchToo’s launch, a number of evangelical churches taught women and girls that if they were sexually assaulted, they’d brought it on themselves. This backward and degrading thinking, it turned out, was the byproduct of a movement to push teenagers to not have sex until they are married. While abstinence-only education has been proven to be both ineffective and harmful, the evangelical world has twisted it in a way that has done even more harm.
In 2018, Emily Joy Allison and Hannah Paasch launched the #ChurchToo movement as a companion to the wider #MeToo movement. Its goal was to turn the spotlight on sexual abuse in the evangelical world. According to a Mother Jones report published soon after #ChurchToo’s launch, a number of evangelical churches taught women and girls that if they were sexually assaulted, they’d brought it on themselves. This backward and degrading thinking, it turned out, was the byproduct of a movement to push teenagers to not have sex until they are married. While abstinence-only education has been proven to be both ineffective and harmful, the evangelical world has twisted it in a way that has done even more harm.
The abuses of evangelical 'purity culture' have gone under the radar for too long
Content warning: discussions of sexual assault In recent years, this country has begun to face a long-overdue reckoning when it comes to how we respond to sexual assault and domestic violence. We’...
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