Hasnain says:

This was an emotional read. Heartbreaking when you think about what these kids and parents had to go through, and infuriating when you think about the system that keeps trying to push this onto more people.

“Her loss of faith in the biblical literalism and patriarchal values of her childhood was coming in the way the movement’s adherents had always warned it would: through exposure to people with different experiences and points of view.

Those people just happened to be her daughter and her husband.

“This is the guy I’ve been married to for eight years,” she recalls thinking. “I know him. I know his heart. I know what kind of parent he wants to be to our kids. These easy answers of ‘Oh, you’re just not a Christian anymore, you just want to sin’ … didn’t work anymore.””

Posted on 2023-05-31T05:55:14+0000