by Sandy » Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:11 pm
I'd say that her view of the teaching of sexual purity in the church is flawed, or distorted, or the church she belonged to approached it much differently than the vast majority of others do. I'm quite familiar with several approaches to teaching sexual purity to teenagers and pre-teens, and I've never seen anything in the materials that say the slightest thing about the whole responsibility resting on girls, because guys are sexually weak. And it is quite a leap from encouragement to dress modestly to "body shaming." The two things are not the same.
Obviously, the way the content is taught is up to those who teach it, but you can't judge the whole movement by one aberration.
I'm just going to ask, because the question here is obvious. Do you think teaching abstinence is wrong? Your moderate Baptist friends teach it, some of them use "True Love Waits," some use "The Silver Ring Thing," and other curriculum to do this. Most mainline Protestants teach it as well and some of them have publishing houses that have developed curriculum to teach it.