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from Talia Lavin, who’s high on my list of “anything she writes is worth reading” journalists. an excerpt from her upcoming book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America.
hopefully the title made it obvious, but a big ol’ content warning for explicit and heartbreaking details about child abuse and endangerment.
Mine were. I got hit with a belt in anger. They had a belt studded with brass. They kept me home to make sure the evidence faded.
They were taught it was right and just and was important to keep me on the straight and narrow.
Good, upstanding folks. Pillars of the community.