Today’s Lady News: Thou Shalt Not Flirt With Thy Parishioners
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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5:15PM, Wednesday September 9th 2009
Holy hell! A Baylor University study of over 3,500 chicks found one in every 33 who goes to worship services at least once a month has been on the receiving end of sexual advances by a religious leader. This happened despite the fact that clergy-congregation sexual relationships are illegal in two states and 36 denominations have rules explicitly saying “thou shalt not hit on your parishioners.” [Washington Post]—Yet another example of porn plots which are inappropriate for real life.
The Wall Street Journal frets that women might feel “betrayed” by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. Why? The most famous single woman since Bridget Jones got married and wrote a book (Committed) about it. [WSJ]—Umm, women never looked up to her as some kind of feminist icon. We’re just jealous she got to travel to Italy, India and Bali to recover from her divorce while we get stuck nursing breakups in our apartments.
The U.K. briefly considered liberalizing their TV ad restrictions allowing condom commercials to air before 9 p.m. and permitting spots for abortion services, but they postponed a decision on the matter after 40,000 people responded. The teen pregnancy rate is at its highest in the past decade. [Daily Mail]
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mountain_laurel1183
wrote on September 9 2009 @ 05:25 pm: [report]
oh, I used to be married to a minister. Not surprised on the stats at ALL. I found out from one of his friends after we split that he fantasized about the girls in the youth group and the reasons for our divorce would have been on the news if he had been a more famous minister, it was that bad. Oh, yeah, he was a treasure.
effing hickster
wrote on September 9 2009 @ 06:00 pm: [report]
As a former Preacher’s Kid, I’m not surprised. My dad was a good boy while he was employed there, but we kids knew of at least a couple scandals involving other members of our church.
Hypocrisy and fundamentalism always seem to go hand-in-hand.
*sam*
wrote on September 10 2009 @ 07:30 am: [report]
and people wonder why I’ve decided to not let my kids join a church until they’re old enough to decide for themselves (as well as recognize sexual harassment and inappropriate advances)