Monday, December 15, 2014

WHEN EVEN FUNDAMENTALIST BOB JONES UNIVERSITY WON'T PRACTICE BIBLICAL SEPARATION, THE WORLD INTRUDES WITH ITS OWN TAKE

BOB JONES UNIVERSITY





SEE: http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2014/11/10/bob-jones-university-rewrites-recent-history-ward-federal-investigation/

Matthew 7:18- “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, 

nor can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” 

(It is the roots that are rotten.)

"Church Sex Scandals Are Rooted in Theology"

EXCERPT:
A unique report on the ultra-conservative Bob Jones University points to the theological roots of sexual abuse and scandals.
The university’s responses, though, were depressingly familiar. Only 7.6 percent of victims were encouraged by BJU staff to report their abuse to the police. Forty-seven percent were actively told not to do so and 55 percent said the university’s attitude toward abuse reports was “blaming and disparaging.” Women were invited to confess what they had done to entice the abuser—the wearing of revealing clothing, for example. And if their bodies “responded favorably,” then they, too, had sinned.
Indeed, even if their bodies hadn’t “responded favorably” to being raped or abused, abuse survivors were still regarded as “damaged goods,” according to the report, because virginity is prized above all, and any illicit sex—consensual or not—is sinful. That may be hard for non-religious people to wrap their heads around, but remember, if sex is bad and virginity is good, that’s true no matter the circumstances, no matter the presence or absence of consent.
It’s precisely that disjuncture that is the real problem. Let’s face it: of course, a sexually repressive Christian university blamed immodest women for “enticing” rapists. That is what conservative organizations, religious and secular, have done for centuries.
There is a kind of transcendence in the GRACE report. By shaming a generation of counselors who were faithfully executing a misogynistic doctrine, Bob Jones University can maintain its fealty to its conception of Biblical literalism while disclaiming these horrifying consequences of it.
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Report: Bob Jones University Officials Tell 

Sexual Assault Victims to 

'Repent for Their Sins' 

and Discourage Them From Filing Police Reports:

EXCERPT:
"I felt swept under the carpet," one of the report's self-identified sexual abuse victim's stated in her response. "I felt I had no right to my feelings, that I should just get over it instead of facing it, that I had to respect the person who abused me because they were my father, and I felt like I was being scolded, that I had to hide my feelings and shut up about it. I felt like I did not matter as a person, much less a victim of any abuse, and that anything I was feeling or experiencing was chalked up to me being sinful."

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