R.L. Stollar
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My book, The Kingdom of Children, is out now: ! MHS, Child Protection. MA, Eastern Classics. Run @Childliberation . He/him.
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#MakeHomeschoolSafe
: A Primer
Why must we make homeschooling safe? Due to intentional, massive deregulation, homeschooling has (1) provided legal cover for abusive parents and (2) become a conduit for radicalization and violence by embracing Christian Nationalism.
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Because parents are the most common abusers of children.
@piper4missouri
Why does my kid need to be taught consent from the schools, when I, as a parent, do it in my home?
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TW: falsely associating LGBTQIA people with child predators.
I feel obligated, as a child protection professional, to point out that this response by Babylon Bee editor Joel Berry to
@mattnightingale
is wildly untrue. It's not only untrue, it's a dangerous lie.
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Study after study has found that queer people do not harm children at higher rates than other people. Instead, a very different picture emerges of the average abuser, who, it turns out, is a religious adult male in a heterosexual marriage:
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This is Randy Voepel, former Republican California state assembly member and grandfather of Colorado Springs shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich.
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80 percent to 96 percent of child predators identify as heterosexual. Those who sexually abuse children also speak about church as a preferred place to find victims. As one predator said, "Church people [are] easy to fool… They have a trust that comes from being Christians."
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Nothing against Pedro Pascal, but I haven't watched much of his work.
So I present to you...
@JanelleMonae
as liberation theology books:
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@shawnmwalters
No one said they are. No demographic of adults should be considered a safe haven from child abuse. That's why we have checks and balances in life.
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Studies also show that queer people—rather than being sexual predators—are more likely to be victims of sexual harassment and assault than other people. This includes queer children. Queer children experience sexual abuse at a rate of 3.8 times the rate of other children.
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When Joel Berry and others scapegoat queer people as sexual abusers, they are scapegoating the very victims most in need of support and understanding.
That scapegoating has real-life consequences for both survivors of child sexual abuse and child protection professionals.
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This is a perfect example of what I discuss in "The Kingdom of Children" about the story of Abraham and Isaac. When you, like Abraham, value faith over your child's well-being, you've lost the plot and probably also lost your relationship with your child.
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Here's another child protection professional,
@Dave_Pittman
, on the real-life problems caused by this lie that Joel Berry is spreading:
"It’s dangerous to all children because it reinforces a myth that lulls parents into thinking their kids are safe around heterosexual adults."
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TW: CSA.
This is not only untrue, it's also dangerous.
By the time *I* was a 3rd grade boy, I had been molested by two adults. Ignorance about what was happening kept me afraid and silent.
More than 20% of children are sexually abused before 3rd grade.
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@Jeffyboythought
It is weird, since we were talking about neither priests nor public school teachers.
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On the contrary, the traditional nuclear family has been the site of the majority of child abuse—with parents as the primary perpetrators.
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"Most abuse has occurred in the context of marriage and traditional childrearing. The urge to dominate and hurt—and the kind of twisted psychosexual fulfillment sought by pedophiles—is never fulfilled by marriage and is [in fact] often camouflaged by marriage."
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@PastorBenMarsh
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This homeschooling mom, who is also the Republican nominee for North Carolina public school superintendent, wants to execute Obama and Biden.
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Pittman continues: “Being from a ‘traditional’ nuclear family (male parent, female parent, and children) has nothing to do with preventing sexual abuse."
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If I was 5 years old and dropped the ice cream I saved for all week while doing underpaid labor for my parents, and my dad refused a free replacement ice cream from the store to teach me a lesson, I would learn one thing: how relationships between parents and children die.
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John Piper tackling the most difficult and pressing questions of 2021.
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The American Conservative on the mass graves of Native American children:
"They're good, actually."
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Inspired by
#ChristianAltFacts
, I decided to pull out this old Abeka World History book. If you're interested in knowing what Christian homeschools and private schools are teaching children, follow along.
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When children who were actually homeschooled are begging society by the thousands that, yes, homeschooling needs more regulation, you should probably listen to them rather than libertarian hacks who coddle the Christian Right.
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This is what Abeka's "New World History and Geography" textbook teaches Christian homeschools and private schools about Native American religion:
"Not until they were told of the love of Christ...did the Indians...begin to care about the well-being of other individuals."
😬😬😬
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I see the evangelicals are once again trying to blame porn for Josh Duggar.
Reminder: porn does not make people abuse. Abuse is a choice. Stop giving abusers excuses for reducing their agency.
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If you break a child’s will, if you force them to be compliant and submissive and immediately obedient to adults, I cannot say this more clearly: you are grooming that child for abuse.
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...I was homeschooled... 🤦🏻♂️
@RLStollar
If homeschooling keeps my kids from looking and dressing and acting like you,,, win win all around.
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"According to Turnitin, a website professors use to check for plagiarism, the 45-page report is 26% plagiarized... Some of the materials appear to have been lifted off Wikipedia."
#1776Report
#1776Commission
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Hitting children is child abuse. You cannot take child abuse seriously if you're encouraging adults to hit children. Hitting children violates a child's right to bodily safety. 🤷🏻♂️
Spanking is unpleasant, and it teaches our kids that sin is unpleasant. It shows them, in a tangible way, how repulsive sin is.
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The whole "slavery was beneficial" argument in Florida's new educational standards is a direct mirroring of how evangelical homeschool curricula have taught about slavery, colonialism, imperialism, etc. for decades.
Here's what Abeka teaches Christian students about colonialism: that it "benefited" Africans and Asians. That's it. No mention of slavery or genocide.
#ChristianAltFacts
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Evangelicals: Absolute truth exists.
Most people: Slavery is wrong.
Evangelicals: No, not like that.
Most people: ...
Evangelicals: Slavery is not in and of itself wrong. In this Twitter thread...
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@C_Stroop
They also pulled him from public school to homeschool him when the public school reported concerns about him.
All sorts of red flags.
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A student exercise on American slavery from Doug Wilson's classical Christian curriculum, "Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present." This was published by Veritas Press in 2006 and is used by evangelical homeschoolers and classical Christian educators.
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The increasingly common rhetoric about "parental rights" has a very specific origin: evangelical homeschoolers. And to evangelical homeschoolers, parental rights are grounded in a property rights paradigm—where children are denied any rights of their own.
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Here's what Abeka teaches Christian students about colonialism: that it "benefited" Africans and Asians. That's it. No mention of slavery or genocide.
#ChristianAltFacts
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I just reported my childhood abusers to CPS.
I am so grateful to my partner Scarlettah and my mental health team (two therapists, one psychiatrist, two cats, and a bunch of medications) for helping me accomplish this.
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"76% of Jews believe Trump and his Republican allies are directly responsible for the rise in antisemitism and white supremacy in the United States."
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Anyone homeschooled in the 1980s or 1990s can tell you how this will turn out. 🤷🏻♂️
If every Christian family had 6 kids (the national average 150 years ago), almost all our political problems would be gone in a generation. Americans are freaking out about the future (rightfully) but the solution is found in Genesis 1:28 - Be fruitful and multiply.
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The suggestion that people who leave evangelicalism are "walking away without ever having seen [Jesus's] face" is so presumptuous and rude. It's this exact approach to deconstruction and personal evolution that pushes leavers even further away. 🤷🏻♂️
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Here's the Gospel Coalition describing "19 Kids and Counting" as "a safe haven among the sea of filth on television" and Josh Duggar's sexual crimes as "past and repented sin":
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Accountability about pornography use and parental monitoring of children's internet use are normal in evangelicalism. However, having a 17-year-old child be your accountability partner as an adult is abnormal (and inappropriate to the point of abusive!).
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This is not only genocidal language from
@LilaGraceRose
, it is also a blatant falsehood.
The average child molester is a religious man in a heterosexual marriage, with 96 percent of the perpetrators of child sexual abuse identifying as heterosexual.
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Ask the stay-at-home daughter movement from the 1990s and 2000s how this went... 🙄
My daughters will go from being under my roof to under their husbands roof with nowhere else in-between.
And that is after these men are approved of.
This shouldn’t be considered controversial.
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Reminder that the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Baptist denomination in the world.
The largest Baptist denomination in the world denies the image of God in women. For shame.
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Such a foolish statement.
The Satanic Panic was one of the most destructive moments in the history of child advocacy and child protection. It promoted lies, destroyed lives, and tore apart families. It's not something to joke about or want "more" of.
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Maybe fewer articles and headlines about Josh Duggar being a reality TV star and more about his many and deep connections with the Evangelical Right and its power holders?
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"'Don't make me regret this decision,' the judge advised Duggar before adjourning."
This judge needs to be removed.
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Pearl-clutching Christians: "Don't speak ill of the dead!"
The Bible: "When the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy."
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Children, including infants, have bacterial dysentery caused by the water shortage in Gaza.
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It is super inappropriate and gross that
@reachjulieroys
published a piece that repeatedly describes an adult woman sexually abusing boys as "having sex with students."
Adults do not "have sex" with children. They abuse children. This is Abuse 101!!
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"White evangelicals stand out in terms of their belief in conspiracy theories and the idea that violence can be necessary."
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Abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention is not "functional atheism." You don't get to blame atheism for church abuse. This is the logical result of white evangelicalism's inherently abusive view of power.
CC:
@C_Stroop
@hemantmehta
@nicholasrfish
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@LibertyEthics
"Swimsuit area" is unhelpful. Naming body parts accurately and without shame is key.
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I like when people say, "But try to *understand* Trump voters." Come on. I understand Trump voters. I grew up a white evangelical. Trump voters were my people. They're power-hungry and desperate for a time that never was. I know them inside-out and they're whitewashed tombs.
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Forced birth advocates are the same ones fighting against prosecuting parents who let their children die by religiously-motivated medical neglect and fighting to dismantle child protective services.
They don't care about actual children, just fetuses. Fetuses make no demands.
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I vehemently disagree with this. Toddlers do not “desperately” need a Savior for unraveling toilet paper rolls. Unraveling toilet papers is not a “sin” that “no amount of good things” can undo. Exploring and testing boundaries are normal and healthy parts of child development.
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Abeka teaches Christian students that environmentalism is part of a world government conspiracy to enact socialist totalitarianism.
#ChristianAltFacts
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@rcsprouljr
You know what also can cause unbearable pain?
Driving drunk with kids in the car like you did.
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When you view children as sinful or evil, you are more likely to misinterpret developmentally appropriate behavior as sinful or evil—and thus more likely to punish them for just being children.
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Ask any homeschool alum how this will turn out... 🙄😆
This is one of those things that is noticeably true irl for me, this isn’t just an online LARP, crunchy moms are engaged in full on, fully self aware biological warfare against the left 😂
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On a Venn Diagram of the Christian Right’s many and diverse projects, you will continually find Michael Farris at the center—as
@jennycohn1
documents in detail in this piece:
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As both a homeschool alum and one of the people who taught Alex logic and critical thinking (I was one of his debate coaches), I disagree here. Homeschool parents taught their kids apologetics and debate *for the sake of advancing Christian Nationalism*. It wasn't altruistic.
Many first-gen homeschool parents, while strictly conservative, taught their kids logic and critical thinking. They encouraged us to read widely and think outside the box. We are, perhaps, uniquely prepared to see and reject the hypocrisy of faith hijacked by partisan politics.
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I have personally processed thousands of ballots. The most striking pattern I see regards libertarians. Pretty much all libertarians vote for Jo Jorgensen for President but then *Republicans* for literally everything else. Libertarians are Republicans with a superiority complex.
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Many adult male pastors portray women and girls as temptresses to deflect from the epidemic of those same men and their friends grooming women and girls for sexual abuse.
Many pastors spend so much time publicly portraying women as temptresses so that when they get caught in sexually compromising positions, they can blame women.
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"[Lauren Boebert] is very much a Christian. She is also a terrible person... If we can’t get it through our heads that it is very possible to be both of those things at the same time, we will never effectively counter... Christian nationalism."
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@C_Stroop
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It's impossible to have a large Quiverfull family like the Jeubs or Duggars without forcing older siblings to parent younger siblings (unless the family is wealthy and can afford paid help).
As parentification is mistreatment, the Quiverfull ideology is thus inherently abusive.
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The lack of homeschool oversight directly enables situations like this:
"None of the children attended school and lacked basic knowledge, including their own birthdays."
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Last month,
@CornelWest
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@JeremyTate41
to describe Ron DeSantis's education measures as "revolutionary"—so, no, I won't be voting for West to be President.
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I am on the front page of the Washington Post today!!
Online version of the article here: .
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Corporal punishment does impact children but not always in the way parents intend. Corporal punishment just taught me to (1) be afraid of the sound of kitchen utensils and (2) hide things better from my parents next time.
@AngEngland
My parents used our wooden baking spoons. I still to this day get panicky when I hear someone pull a wooden spoon out of a container.
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This is why men shouldn't be in leadership. They are too emotional and prone to mood swings.
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The more I learned about child development and childrearing, and what best practices are in those fields, the more I realized: evangelicals are teaching the exact opposite of the best practices.
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Speaking as a child protection professional, this is not only wrong, it is extraordinarily dangerous and should be denounced by everyone who cares about child abuse prevention.
This sort of rhetoric directly empowers child predators.
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"Two-thirds of the babies born to teenage mothers... were fathered by adult men some four to six years older than the girls - not the fellow classmates long suspected... The younger the mother, the greater the age gap."
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This family model was created by Bill Gothard... a man who never married, never had children, and was accused by dozens of people of sexual harassment and rape.
More about the "umbrella of authority" and the real-life harm it has caused families here:
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.
@ThatsSoRaegan
was fired from
@HoughtonUniv
for including pronouns in her email signature.
Including pronouns in one's email signature apparently violates the evangelical college's institutional policies. A sign of things to come...
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Actual mail being sent to voters to promote Trump.
This is from Texas.
CC:
@jennycohn1
@BradleyOnishi
@RobertDownen_
@TexasTribune
@RightWingWatch
@kathsstewart
@PRAEyesRight
@petemont
@piper4missouri
@JillFilipovic
@DavidDark
@HoustonChron
@ardenthistorian
@FredClarkson
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As the apologies roll in from Al Mohler and everyone else caught sweeping abuse allegations under the rug, let’s take a moment and remember *all* the survivors that spoke up bravely for years.
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This is a classic teaching of Christian homeschools and private schools: that the Holocaust is "Evolution's legacy."
#ChristianAltFacts
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TW: murder, suicide.
15-year-old homeschooled teen Mattie Kay Prescott was murdered by her evangelical Christian mother, who then killed herself in turn.
#MakeHomeschoolSafe
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