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So weird

posted 11 years ago by mhpayne78
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I agree with both of the previous comments on here. The whole father-daughter ball is just creepy!! These poor girls are so repressed that it's no wonder they all want to get married so freaking young!! They don't even kiss before saying their I-Do's..... I just don't get it. Listening to this father speak makes my skin want to crawl..... Who is this guy, anyway?? Watching the way he looks at and speaks to his wife, it's pretty clear to me that he's not even attracted to her. His obsession with keeping his daughters "pure" is one of the strangest forms of control that I've ever witnessed. I know I don't know these people, and I can only form opinions based on what I see from the documentary..... but it just seems as though none of these kids ever had a chance to form their OWN thoughts or feelings.... it's all been preached to them since childhood. They claim to have made their own decisions but it's clear that they were given only one choice from the start. I can respect anyone's decision to save themselves for marriage (my cousin did this with her husband and I commend her for it because she is a Christian who made this decision on her own), but this family takes things to a whole new level. I can only imagine how they would've handled a child who had disobeyed their rules!!!

[–] saltnurwound 11 years ago

How would Poppa Purity have handled one of his creepy kids if they had come out as gay/lesbian? How rejected would they have felt as the whole extended family went on praying away the gay binges? The older one who speaks of nothing but the perfect dream guy that god's gonna reward her with didn't seem too keen on the endless wait for said gift. I got the impression the younger one dares to have some of her own personal thoughts about life now and then, which could sadly actually do her harm in that family, especially if they're not centered on god n jesus 24/7.

[–] AntiGravityShoes 11 years ago

if one of their children came out as gay they would be sent for Christian "re-training", where they are brainwashed and pressured into suppressing their sexual identity. Basically, it's the pray-the-gay-away theory. And it is horrible.

[–] MeganCraft 11 years ago

There is definitely a strong undercurrent that the young girls are being indoctrinated\brainwashed into having a very strict moral standards, and along with it a lot of guilt of they fall from grace. And this film suggests that the families think its healthy to hold back everything until marriage

[–] rainstreet 10 years ago

The most telling part of the documentary was the very end, when they stated that teenagers who take purity vows are just as likely to have premarital sex as other teenagers - and less likely to use birth control when they do. I wonder what Papa Wilson has to say about that.

[–] SataiDelen 11 years ago

It's one thing to have morals and values, and that's great, but these people are just so creepy! And that "Purity Ball" was especially creepy.

[–] BelleCBelle 10 years ago

The wedding ring from father to daughter, the father signing the certificate with his daughter witnessing, the disturbingly-erotic dance performed by the group of girls dressed in white, ah gee, I can't think about it anymore. I'm so glad I was raised in a lapsed-Methodist household.

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[–] blubird-1 10 years ago

The truly creepy thing, nothing is expected of these girls, other than to be mothers and housewives. Nothing at all choosing to be a stay at home, but these girls have been brainwashed it's their only purpose. Their worth is in men only and their virginity. It has very little to do with Jesus, a completely man made cult like ideology. The one daughter needed to be married, and she was nothing without it, her only desire, something very wrong about it because she is as blank as a piece of paper. She has no identity and has no developed personhood.

[–] musicbytes 9 years ago

They are unhappy republicans ! Ladies don't date a guy unless he gives you oral orgasms !