Part of the Christian Kyriarchy Project
Last updated 4/10/2025
The way Christians involved in purity culture set up their morality surrounding sex doesn't tend to differentiate. Two unmarried people having consensual sex is supposedly just as offensive to God as rape and other sexual abuse.
1. Here are various examples.
Uncritical examples
Doing Things Right In Matters of the Heart Study Guide by Joshua Krohse | Northbrook Baptist Church (check page 17)
Archived on Wayback Machine
Shocking News: Josh Duggar is a Sinner by Eric Hovind | Creation Today (May 2015)
Archived on Wayback Machine and Ghost Archive
To Fight Sex Trafficking, Fight the Ideology That Creates It, Expert Says by Napp Nazworth | Christian Post (February 2013, quotes someone who claims sex trafficking is caused by sex being disconnected from marriage and procreation)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
The Progression of Pornography Addiction by Gene McConnell | Focus On The Family (January 2020, claims regular porn use can lead to sexual harassment and other boundary crossing)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Baggage in the Bedroom by Dr. Juli Slattery | Focus On The Family (November 2015, talks as though porn use and casual sex are as damaging as sexual abuse)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Religious right letter opposed to The Freedom To Marriage Act (July 2022, argues that “marriages involving a minor or relative” would be protected under this act alongside things like polyamorous marriage, non-permanent arrangements, or platonic marriage)
Archived on Politico
Deevers Introduces Slate of Legislation to Restore Moral Sanity in Oklahoma | Oklahoma Senate (January 2025)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Patrick Henry College Student Handbook (see page 30, which lists sexual harassment alongside “sexually suggestive dancing”)
Approved By The Board Of Trustees On April 11, 2011
Archived on Wayback Machine
Why We Should Push Back against Platonic Marriage by Alan J. Hawkins | Public Discouse (June 2021, claims that legal recognition of non-sexual marriages would weaken laws against incest)
Archived on Wayback Machine and Archive.today
Commentary
Gender and race in the cult of true womanhood | Are Women Human? (September 2011)
“You Are Not Your Own:” Is Rape Just Another “Sexual Sin?” | Sarah Over The Moon (September 2013)
How “Lessons From Moral Failures in a Family” Blames Victims | Recovering Grace (April 2013)
Josh Duggar and His Victims are "Damaged Goods" | Tell me why the world is weird (June 2015)
All Sin is Equal: The Reasons Why I Hate Myself | Speaking When the World Sleeps (January 2016)
Rape. That's a kind of premarital sex, right? | Love, Joy, Feminism (August 2012)
Dear conservative Christians: Rape is not sex | Are Women Human? (September 2010)
Josh Duggar's Real Victim Was God (So It's Okay) | Tell me why the world is weird (June 2015)
BREAKING NEWS: Purity Culture Adherents Completely Miss the Point | Tell me why the world is weird (February 2017, criticizes evangelicals who don't see a difference between a woman being shown in a sexual manner and a woman being treated as an object for men's pleasure)
How Sovereign Grace Ministries deals with ACTUAL sexual sin | Are Women Human? (April 2011)
Why I Cannot Support Frontline Family Ministries' Abuse Prevention Week: Part Five, Unmask the Predators by R.L. Stollar | Homeschoolers Anonymous (October 2014)
Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers proposes bill to ban all pornography: What to know about SB593 by Josh Kelly | The Oklahoman (January 2025, discusses a politician who equates child sexual exploitation with all porn)
2. Some Christians have treated gay relationships and trans acceptance as being on the same level as incest, pedophilia, and bestiality. This has also come with the assumption that LGBTQ+ people are naturally more predatory than cis straight people.
Uncritical examples
Is there a connection between homosexuality and predatory behavior, like pedophilia? by Bob Van Domelen | Exodus International
Archived on Wayback Machine
12 Ways God-Rejecters Murder, Attack, & Abuse Children | Biblical Evidence For Catholicism With Dave Armstrong (July 2023)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Religious right letter opposed to The Freedom To Marriage Act (July 2022, argues that “marriages involving a minor or relative” would be protected under this act)
Archived on Politico
Gay Rights vs. Democracy by Dinesh D'Souza | Townhall (May 2008)
Archived on Wayback Machine
Predator Calling Cards, Part 1: Found One in My Mailbox by Lisa Cherry | Frontline Moms & Dads (July 2012)
Archived on Wayback Machine and Homeschoolers Anonymous
Commentary
How Equating Homosexuality as a Sin Just Like Child Sexual Abuse Harms Survivors | Speaking When the World Sleeps (October 2014)
FRC: Scientists Refuse to Accept Clear “Correlation Between Homosexuality and Pedophilia” by Kyle Mantyla | Right Wing Watch (December 2010)
Speaker Mike Johnson's Wife Runs Counseling Service That Compares Homosexuality to Beastiality by Christopher Wiggins | Advocate (October 2023)
So you say you don't hate gay people, Part IV by Libby Anne | Love, Joy, Feminism (August 2012)
"If our condemnation hurts you it's because you know we're right" – some musings on the "sin of homosexuality" | Speaking When the World Sleeps (May 2013)
Further information
...incest relies ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, on CANNIBALIZING existing relationship bonds | bigskydreaming (July 2019)
Incest Is Cancer by William Saletan (December 2010)
Sex Workers Don't Deserve to be Raped by Jillian Keenan | The Daily Beast (September 2014)
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