SALON WRITER BROOKE ARNOLD TALKS ABOUT OPPRESSION OF WOMEN IN CHRISTIAN CHURCH; IT'S A STANDARD PRACTICE!

Brooke Arnold of "Salon" writes as follows:

"I think if I had known the amount of attention and the intensity of response that my last article for Salon, “I could’ve been a Duggar wife: I grew up in the same church, and the abuse scandal doesn’t shock me,” was going to receive, I would not have had the courage to press “send” on the pitch. I assumed that it would be just one more article; one more pebble thrown into the giant ocean of online media. I didn’t imagine that it would cause anything more than a very short-lived ripple. I was very wrong.

Since the article was published, I have received thousands of messages from people who have said: “I thought I was the only one.”

Many of those messages came from people like me who grew up in and around ATI, a fundamentalist Christian organization— some even from people that I had grown up with and not spoken to in a very long time. Sadly, many of those messages also included stories of horrors that far exceeded anything that I experienced..."

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http://www.salon.com/2015/06/04/the_duggar_wives_of_the_world_have_spoken_i_thought_i_was_the_only_one/