The call for a woke sexual ethic isn’t being answered
by Julian Mann, Anglican Ink:
The Religion Media Centre, whose advisory board includes the Rev George Pitcher, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s one-time public affairs secretary, describes itself as ‘an independent, impartial body helping journalists and other media professionals cover world religions and beliefs’. But it has just broadcast a blatant piece of revisionist propaganda that calls for a reasoned response.
‘The hypocrisy of purity culture enables sexual abuse in churches’ is the rather less than impartial title of the online briefing now available for viewing via the RMC’s website.
The broadcast, hosted by the religion journalist and former BBC producer, Rosie Dawson, features Emily Joy Allison, a performance poet and theology graduate from Nashville, Tennessee. She defines evangelical purity culture as the teaching that ‘it’s mandatory to have complete and total sexual abstinence until legal, monogamous marriage between a cisgender heterosexual man and a cisgender, heterosexual woman. Or else’.
But why should the traditional Christian sexual ethic have to take the blame for creepy church abusers and their cronies who cover up for them?
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