for young women in the Mormon church.
A phrase in the Young Women’s Personal Progress workbooks under the value of “virtue” used to reference a Book of Mormon scriptural passage that critics felt made rape victims feel like they had violated the law of chastity.


http://wjactv.com/news/nation-world/lds-church-removes-controversial-scripture-connecting-rape-and-chastity-from-workbook

No, they'll still make the connection. They just won't make the YW recite the words constantly anymore.

She: I'm not a virgin; I was raped!

He: what did you do to cause it?

don't worry, you can be forgiven.

If you'll just repent.

According to Richard C. Snott, just see your bishop so he can help you determine your level of responsibility.

NormaRae Wrote:
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> According to Richard C. Snott, just see your
> bishop so he can help you determine your level of
> responsibility.

. . . by having you repeat the details of the rape to him over
and over as he asks repeated probing questions . . . all to help
you, of course.

Yep. Gotta know all the miniscule details in order to make sure you are able to repent of anything you did to encourage it.

Snott? Is that really a name?

Well, that might accidentally on purpose be a typo.

It's still in the scriptures

Yep. It's another wink-wink trick of theirs.

The procedure may have changed, but the practice won't.

they need to remove it from the B of M, but that won't happen.

The B of M? The Bowel of Movements?

What I'd like to see is to have the church admit that it used to treat rape victims like sinners and then apologize and admit they were wrong. I'd also like to be a billionaire. So in other words neither thing is gonna happen.

This is one of those times where I actually don't see the act, the decision to not have the young women recite the vile scripture, as being meaningful. It's their artless way of trying to change how they are viewed about these kinds of topics without actually saying 'we're changing this cause the Shit we used to say was fucked up."

midwestanon Wrote:
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> The B of M? The Bowel of Movements?
>
> What I'd like to see is to have the church admit
> that it used to treat rape victims like sinners
> and then apologize and admit they were wrong. I'd
> also like to be a billionaire. So in other words
> neither thing is gonna happen.
>
> This is one of those times where I actually don't
> see the act, the decision to not have the young
> women recite the vile scripture, as being
> meaningful. It's their artless way of trying to
> change how they are viewed about these kinds of
> topics without actually saying 'we're changing
> this cause the Shit we used to say was fucked up."

Absolutely brilliant! Bravo!!

from the link:
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Michael Crook

I am what I am and that is all that I am.

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...........and that is a mysogynist. I hope this guy never has a daughter and if he does, I hope she never attracts the attention of a nutter who overpowers and abuses her as this man would consider her sinful and prefer her dead with an intact hymen than alive and no longer virginal.

The attitude displayed by this guy is the attitude that has led to women wearing burkas.