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In reply to the discussion: Afghan girl's 'horrifying abuse' exposed by video [View all]crim son
(27,464 posts)you know, the kind where they speak in tongues during the ceremony, and women in the congregation are not allowed to wear pants, only long skirts, and they must keep their heads covered. They aren't anything but radical fundamentalist Christians, something I know because I was once stopped by their pastor one afternoon when I walked by their house of worship. One of my neighbors, whose husband was indeed head of the household in the old-fashioned way, attended that church and was submissive to her husband, as were her daughters (hers by a previous marriage) while the four-year-old son who was a product of her current marriage was paraded around like he was an incarnation of the Lord. That neighbor had married into the situation and was extremely unhappy, as were her daughters and in fact one of the daughters ended up in the local mental institution after severely acting out against her stepfather. The man refused to allow flowers in the house or in the yard for fear that they would distract the family from what was really important: God. Eventually the family moved but I do believe their lifestyle was representative of what is expected of the congregation of that local church. There is no question that the females there wear skirts or dresses and head-coverings... in warm weather they often hold sales and other events on the church lawn and it is easy to see their style of dress differs from, say, the styles you'd see at St. John's Catholic Church downtown.