I’m glad someone is willing to speak up for women knowing their place in the home! 😛

What’s even more frightening was this article I read recently about birth rates in secular households and birthrates in Quiverfull households. Secular and less fundamentalist families are having fewer children, and families that subscribe to this sort of doctrine are having more. Do not like.

I love Stephen Colbert. I really do. It would be impossible to overestimate my love for him. Every time he talks about being Catholic and then goes on doing his witty, biting satire, I want to give him a hug.

Stephen Colbert?

Ha. Just kidding!

Seven months, seriously? Your parish must be madly interested in gender roles on the religious fringe! (And by parish of course I mean county.)

I’m amazed you were able to make it through a whole book by Debi Pearl. The short paragraphs excerpted from her writings in this book made me feel slightly nauseated, and I know I couldn’t stomach a whole book.

Oh, I may not have been clear. The woman writing the book isn’t a member of the Quiverfull movement. I don’t think I’d have made it through the book if she was. I just meant to say that she manages to be surprisingly un-judgmental of the movement.

A lot of women in the movement do write about how proper women are supposed to behave. Joyce quoted several of them, and she also touched briefly on spousal abuse in the movement. I wanted to know more about that. Apparently when husbands are abusing their wives, everyone in the religious community wants the wife to examine what she’s doing wrong to provoke him into hitting her. So scary.

I know, they’re terrible. It scares me that anyone would listen to their insane philosophy of childrearing in the first place (it’s apparently designed to make kids behave by breaking their spirits), let alone continue to listen to it after more than one kid has died from the kind of corporal punishment they advocate.

And I could have said SO MUCH MORE! My brain was saying eeek eewwwww the whole time I was reading this book, and I didn’t even quote some of the worst stuff in this review. Because it was too gross and I couldn’t make myself copy it out.