BLARGH.

[apocalypsos]

I turned on the TV just in time to see an ABC News report on purity balls.

*scrubs eyeballs with bleach*

The creepiest was the guy who said that if your daughter is not a virgin on her wedding day, then what are you giving away when she gets married?

Ick. I don't think my skin is going to stop crawling anytime soon.

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

A purity ball is kind of like a big father/daughter prom where these mostly preteen girls pledge to their fathers to stay a virgin until their wedding night. Like, with vows. And a ceremony. And the girls in fancy dresses. And their fathers in suits.

For obvious reasons it's REALLY fucking creepy.

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

That is just wrong and gross and creepy and wrong and sick and wrong on so many levels.

I feel gross just thinking about it.

Just... wrong.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

Okay, honestly, THAT IS A LOT LESS CREEPY than what the phrase "purity ball" suggested to my mind.

I won't say any more than that.

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

lmao!

oh good, it wasn't just me :)

[1grl-revolution.livejournal.com]

lol. Or me. *phew*

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

Or me... *breathes slightly easier*

[lalalallifer.livejournal.com]

Joining the relieved thread.

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

Same here, and I realized that I read the Glamour article that some one mentioned above.

[goldndog.livejournal.com]

And remember, our government is helping fund these purity balls. Many of the churches promoting this stuff are Reconstructionist denominations. Reconstructionists follow the teachings of John Rousas Rushdoony and Gary North, and their goal is to eventually take over America and install their brand of faith as the state religion.

Here are a couple of websites that will show you what these folks really believe:

http://0rz.com/?vDVsP
http://0rz.com/?vcDYg
http://0rz.com/?NsCrB

And, here is a link for VisionForum, a HUGE promoter of the Purity Ball concept and one of America's leading homeschooling curriculum companies. VisionForum is run by Doug Phillips, son of ex-Reagan cabinet member Howard Phillips and pastor of Boerne Christian Assembly, a hyper-patriarchal Reconstructionist congregation where women are relegated to virtual slavery in their own homes, denied higher education, are not permitted to participate in prayer in the church services, make prayer requests in church, or even receive communion unless it is served to them by their husband or another male member of the congregation.

http://www.visionforum.com/

The Phillipses are quite the father and son team, too -- Howard Phillips is the founder of the Constitution Party, whose 2004 presidential nominee was League of the South member Michael Peroutka. While the Constitution Party courted the votes of the League of the South (identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) and other neoConfederate groups in 2004, Howard's son, Pastor Doug, was hard at work garnering the Christian vote, encouraging his congregation to vote for Peroutka and warning them that they were not spiritually "at liberty" to vote for the Bush or Kerry because of their unBiblical stances on key issues.

And our government is funding father-daughter dinner dances for these groups. Sweet.

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

I had that in my head too. It was making my brain bleed.
What it actually is is still creepy and gross, though. *shudders* Sounds like something Jessica Simpson woulda done...

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you saw Dirt last night? It was a not very thinly veiled plot of the Simpson sisters and Papa Simpson, and boy was it nasty.

[strix-an-stones.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. That is seriously fucked up.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Oh jesus christ, I thought, when I first read this post, it was a bunch of nerds going to a dance with extra chaperones to watch 'em.

Why is the world so insane?