tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post7026434527360741364..comments2024-03-26T14:34:28.415-07:00Comments on Religion and Child Abuse News: Christian tyrant Gothard and his patriarchal cult of fear that demands total subservience of women and childrenPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-79604359165840650122017-06-04T11:53:22.506-07:002017-06-04T11:53:22.506-07:00Religious child abuse is an Abuse of Power.
Only a...Religious child abuse is an Abuse of Power.<br />Only a weak and insecure man would buy into these teachings, in order to puff up and vainly glorify himself.<br /><br />The male who believes and follows the Patriarchal Cult is denying the power and Freedom of Jesus Christ.<br /><br />ONLY Jesus Christ is Saviour. He does not need an empty-headed and vacuous male keeping females in chains<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-13828096785016238172016-04-17T13:58:03.782-07:002016-04-17T13:58:03.782-07:00Scandal plagued home schooling institute loses key...Scandal plagued home schooling institute loses key accreditation<br /><br />by Emily McFarlan Miller | Religion News Service March 18, 2016 <br /><br />CHICAGO (RNS) Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles has lost its membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, which gives accreditation to leading Christian nonprofit organizations.<br /><br />Its membership Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-28170283125004999982016-02-19T15:42:40.528-08:002016-02-19T15:42:40.528-08:00Gothard convinced Spurlocks impoverished family to...Gothard convinced Spurlocks impoverished family to let the teen stay in Indiana for “counseling” for the “sins” of participating in sports and having a boyfriend — things that went against his puritanical belief that women should practice extreme modesty.<br /><br />Spurlock was forced to work long hours in the training center’s kitchen and locked in her living quarters at night, she says.<br /><Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-81118655549756002102016-02-19T15:42:31.848-08:002016-02-19T15:42:31.848-08:00Two women share shocking accounts of forced labor ...Two women share shocking accounts of forced labor and sexual abuse by prominent Christian leader Bill Gothard<br /><br />BY LAURA BULT NEW YORK DAILY NEWS February 19, 2016<br /><br />Two women who are accusing an influential Christian preacher with ties to the Duggar family of sexual assault spoke out for the first time Thursday about their hellish years of forced labor and abuse in the Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-51936396489771556742016-02-19T15:37:53.992-08:002016-02-19T15:37:53.992-08:00More women sue home schooling guru for sexual hara...More women sue home schooling guru for sexual harassment<br /><br />Lauren Markoe | Religion News Service February 18, 2016 <br /><br />(RNS) The sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Gothard, whose ministry preached the subordination of women to men, has grown again.<br /><br />Now 18 people — 16 women and two men — are suing the 81-year-old founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles,Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-22600382613834307252016-01-07T10:55:05.192-08:002016-01-07T10:55:05.192-08:00Gibbs said that he believes both women went to the...Gibbs said that he believes both women went to the police with the allegations but he is not sure why law enforcement didn’t prosecute the cases. Allegations of sexual abuse that happened years ago are often difficult to pursue due to the possibility that the statute of limitations — the time period during which prosecutors are able to pursue a crime — has expired.<br /><br />“It would not Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-39521341633987577622016-01-07T10:54:56.166-08:002016-01-07T10:54:56.166-08:00Although Gothard resigned his affidavit makes clea...Although Gothard resigned his affidavit makes clear he intends to return to the ministry he started in 1961.<br /><br />“During the past seven months, God has allowed me to publish six new books that contain a powerful new message that I want to get out to all of the alumni,” Gothard wrote, adding that over 2.5 million alumni have attended his seminars.<br /><br />Gothard confirmed that he workedPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-16508096151177798772016-01-07T10:53:47.226-08:002016-01-07T10:53:47.226-08:00New charges allege religious leader who has ties t...New charges allege religious leader who has ties to the Duggars sexually abused women<br /> <br />By Sarah Pulliam Bailey, THE WASHINGTON POST January 6, 2015<br /> <br />Ten women on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Bill Gothard, who for decades was a major force in the conservative Christian homeschooling movement, charging him and leaders in his ministry with sexual abuse, harassment and Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15411244662134082042015-12-12T13:48:56.521-08:002015-12-12T13:48:56.521-08:00Recovering Grace compiled the stories of more than...Recovering Grace compiled the stories of more than 30 women who said they had been sexually “groomed” and inappropriately touched by Gothard over a three-decade period, and sought to address the charges internally at IBLP.<br /><br />About the lawsuit, John Cornish, a spokesman for Recovering Grace, said, “Our goal and our hope is the same as it’s been all along — that they will be accountable Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-42356717028001932312015-12-12T13:48:46.758-08:002015-12-12T13:48:46.758-08:00Five women sue Bill Gothard’s ministry that has ti...Five women sue Bill Gothard’s ministry that has ties to the Duggars<br /><br />By Sarah Posner, The Washington Post October 22, 2015<br /><br />Five women have sued the Institute in Basic Life Principles, once a leader in the Christian homeschooling movement, charging that the organization and its board of directors enabled and covered up sexual abuse and harassment of interns, employees, and Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-88399302082817243072015-06-14T15:40:40.896-07:002015-06-14T15:40:40.896-07:00 But I met a lot of people that way. I stayed in t... But I met a lot of people that way. I stayed in touch with the people on HSD. We just found that we had so many of the same struggles, whether it was some sort of social anxiety or dealing with a professor in college, or dealing with an authority figure and not really having healthy relationships with authority–either being too subservient or challenging it too much.<br /><br />Where do you Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-59300846585831628882015-06-14T15:40:33.692-07:002015-06-14T15:40:33.692-07:00So it goes like this: Immodest women cause rushes ...So it goes like this: Immodest women cause rushes of testosterone in men and cause them to irresistibly assault–either sexually or violently–women. All the blame is put on the women and how they dress. There is very little responsibility put on men to just not rape women. That’s kind of their ethics going into it. It’s kind of infiltrated mainstream Christianity.<br /><br />I would say mainstreamPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-22203751783562102052015-06-14T15:38:43.124-07:002015-06-14T15:38:43.124-07:00As far as I can tell, the big attraction of ATI wa...As far as I can tell, the big attraction of ATI was that it was sort of this holistic thing. It was a lifestyle; it was a religious belief; it was a homeschooling method. Bill Gothard promised you access to exclusive truth. So he presented fundamentalism in a pretty attractive way. He made it practical. Very black and white: here’s a problem and here’s a solution. I think that’s very attractive, Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-72633111973817040692015-06-14T15:36:33.090-07:002015-06-14T15:36:33.090-07:00Former Homeschooler on the Duggar Family’s Fundame...Former Homeschooler on the Duggar Family’s Fundamentalist 'Education': It Teaches 'Rape Culture'<br /><br />The founder of Homeschoolers Anonymous talks about being indoctrinated with Bill Gothard's misogynist lessons.<br /><br />By Jenny Kutner / Salon.com June 8, 2015<br /><br />Almost as soon as it was revealed last month that Josh Duggar sexually assaulted his younger Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-33841369067303099492015-06-08T15:25:22.964-07:002015-06-08T15:25:22.964-07:00Arkansas police last month said they had destroyed...Arkansas police last month said they had destroyed a record outlining a nearly decade-old investigation into Josh Duggar. No charges were filed in the abuse, which happened in 2002 and 2003. Police began investigating the abuse in 2006 when tipped by a family friend but concluded the statute of limitations had lifted.<br /><br />Jim Bob Duggar said that before that investigation he had taken JoshPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-4256149625084750342015-06-08T15:25:14.555-07:002015-06-08T15:25:14.555-07:00Josh Duggars sister says he victimized her but chi...Josh Duggars sister says he victimized her but child molester allegations 'a lie'<br /><br />Reality TV star Jessa Duggar tells Fox News allegations against Josh are "so overboard and a lie"<br /><br />The Associated Press June 04, 2015<br /><br />Reality TV star Jessa Duggar told Fox News Channel on Wednesday that she was a victim of her older brother Josh Duggar, who fondled Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15214964829911039902015-06-08T15:14:49.864-07:002015-06-08T15:14:49.864-07:00Quite grossly two of the daughters who were Josh’s...Quite grossly two of the daughters who were Josh’s victims were brought on air to weep and defend their brother and their family. Maybe they were supposed to be further evidence that the Duggars are not hypocrites, that the family solidarity and culture of forgiveness they foster warrants them to stand on soap boxes as if they were pulpits, criticizing the rest of us.<br /><br />Jim-Bob answered Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-32316078222294341152015-06-08T15:14:33.221-07:002015-06-08T15:14:33.221-07:00Certainly a frontrunner for the top prize would be...Certainly a frontrunner for the top prize would be when Michelle maintained that her daughters are being more abused by the press in the wake of the uncovering of Josh’s scandal than they were by Josh as children. “They’ve been victimized more by what happened in these last couple weeks than they were 12 years ago,” she said.<br /><br />What a disgraceful thing to say. If we’re throwing stones Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-3322806315134820062015-06-08T15:14:17.635-07:002015-06-08T15:14:17.635-07:00The Duggars Fox News Interview Was an Unholy Disas...The Duggars Fox News Interview Was an Unholy Disaster<br /><br />by Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast June 4, 2015<br /><br />At various times downplaying their son’s molestation of their daughters and playing the victims themselves, the Duggar family dug themselves a bottomless PR hole.<br /><br />Whether or not Michelle and Jim-Bob Duggar are hypocrites, I suppose, is still a matter of debate. Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-1484211787396485702015-06-06T14:44:40.693-07:002015-06-06T14:44:40.693-07:00Women were under enormous pressure to marry, but m...Women were under enormous pressure to marry, but men, we were told, could get a special exception to stay single if it was God’s will. Gothard himself liked to say that as he explained to us at a weekend retreat I attended to learn how to be a “godly” woman, God specifically set him apart for singleness, freeing him of the obligation to get married. (In retrospect, given the 34 women who’ve come Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-24898092697969866842015-06-06T14:44:23.932-07:002015-06-06T14:44:23.932-07:00We girls came to learn that policing our bodies, i...We girls came to learn that policing our bodies, in addition to getting married and having babies, was our primary role in life. Even before puberty, we were required to swim in oversized t-shirts and shorts that came past our knees (while boys wore regular bathing suits), and were taught by our wisdom books: “when a man looks lustfully at a woman, a flood of impulses travels through the optic Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-1028223203274661812015-06-06T14:44:04.284-07:002015-06-06T14:44:04.284-07:00My childhood in a cult is hard to imagine but my s...My childhood in a cult is hard to imagine but my survival is truly unbelievable<br /><br />The ATI cult and the ‘Quiverfull’ movement defined my life, until I was old enough to break away<br /><br />by Jenna Tracy, The Guardian June 1, 2015<br /><br />For the longest time, I didn’t know how to explain to people how I grew up.<br /><br />Raised in Minnesota, my family went to a suburban, Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-6338596010157332802014-05-18T11:27:41.456-07:002014-05-18T11:27:41.456-07:00We weren't allowed to have a conversation in t...We weren't allowed to have a conversation in the lobby with female staff members. And yet he - a single old man - had long "counseling sessions" with the same young women we were forbidden from meeting. At the time, we shrugged it off. He was the leader, he was allowed to make the rules.<br /><br />I saw the materials he published too, about "counseling sexual abuse". Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-34775775170744665562014-05-18T11:27:21.433-07:002014-05-18T11:27:21.433-07:00Growing up in Bill Gothard's Homeschool Cult
...Growing up in Bill Gothard's Homeschool Cult<br /><br />by Micah J. Murray, RedemptionPictures.com <br />· <br />Huffington Post May 6, 2014<br /> <br />You know it somewhere in your mind before your mouth will admit it.<br /><br />We talked about how it was a cult, joking at first. Outsiders could point and accuse and question, but we knew that it wasn't what it looked like. Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-91750002833906686272014-02-28T10:57:29.073-08:002014-02-28T10:57:29.073-08:00Now 38, she said the statute of limitations has ex...Now 38, she said the statute of limitations has expired, leaving her unable to sue. She said she told her mother, who told her that she was lying, so Swearingen assumed there was nothing she could do.<br /><br />“No one was there when the molestation was happening,” she said in an interview. “I never had the guts to say anything. I thought if my mother didn’t believe me, who would? You’re not to Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com