The Purity Ball
Oh, man…. this is just too fucking weird. Too TOO fucking weird.
Focus on the Family Magazine: May I Have This Dance?
The Pledge
I, (daughter’s name)’s father, choose before God to cover my daughter as her authority and protection in the area of purity. I will be pure in my own life as a man, husband and father. I will be a man of integrity and accountability as I lead, guide and pray over my daughter and as the high priest in my home. This covering will be used by God to influence generations to come.
Here’s what this is all about — get ready to retch — these whacked out fundamentalist Christian dads get their little girls all prettied up in a fancy dress and take them to a special father/daughter dance sort of thing…
Okay so far, right? Nothing particularly odd with that. (Father/daughter dances are a wee bit strange just in general — you know, in a Freudian kind of way? — but most of them are probably pretty harmless.) Not here, though. Read on, it gets worse. Much, much worse.
The highlight of the Ball is when the fathers sign the “Covenant of Purity and Protection, witnessed by their daughters”.
Eeeeeeew! How totally creepy is it for little girls having a special night out with daddy to have that all tied with this bizarre paternal sexual control thing?? Yikes. Pretty fucking weird. Didn’t I say it?
Posted by RebeccaHartong on April 21, 2006 under Uncategorized
John Scalzi wrote a little about this and his thoughts on the matter over here. http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004156.html He had some very cogent thoughts on the matter.
Yep, that really is a well-written post. Interesting guy.