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(Repost) “Why Did You Kill Nurylon?” – Escape Chapter 9: Tragedy
Despite her terrible marriage, Carolyn has had a decent summer, finishing a summer session at college and exercising a modicum of control over her life. She goes home for a while in August, and tries to spend time at her parents’ home.* Her mother is having trouble caring for the nine youngest kids without Carolyn’s help.
But Carolyn can’t be there all the time, and so it’s 16 year-old Annette who piles 9 young siblings into the back of a pickup, along with Cousin Bonnie and 6 little cousins, and drives out for a picnic.
Content Note: child fatality, rollover accident, descriptions of serious injuries
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Protected: (Tier 1) “He Knew That He Was Dangerous” – Escape Chapter 25: Turning Point
(Repost) “The Family Scapegoat” – Escape Chapter 8: Newlywed
So, imagine that the only way you can go to college is by having a sister-wife so jealous of you that she’ll talk your husband into sending you away. No one’s going to let you go just because it’s the right decision for you and your family. No one cares that you want to complete your education. It’s only because your sister-wife can’t stand you that you get the chance to go at all. And your new stepdaughters, asked by your husband to spy on you at college, are all clamoring for the chance to watch your every move. It’s the only way they’ll have a shot at college themselves. Their father certainly wouldn’t give mere girls an education just because they want one.
Welcome to Carolyn Jessop’s dysfunctional new family. This is what passes for sensible in the FLDS.
Content note for: forced marriage, manipulation, controlling behavior, abuse, theft.
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Protected: (Tier 1) “Jason is a Criminal and is Bad News” – Escape Chapter 25: Turning Point
(Repost) “I Was Just Another Piece of Property” – Escape Chapter 8: Newlywed
Carolyn Jessop has gone from single college student to subservient wife in a polygamous arranged marriage in just a few days.
Content note for physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of adults; physical abuse and neglect of children; attempted suicide.
Now, on her “honeymoon,” she’s enduring repeated sexual assaults from her new husband at night. She’s just grateful she doesn’t have to speak to him during the day, as he shows no interest in her outside of trying to fuck her. She’s reeling, and the fact that her father and stepmother are thrilled by her marriage perplexes her: “If they loved me, how could they have let me go through anything so hateful?”
In a word: religion.
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Protected: (Tier 1) “An Ulterior Motive” – Escape Chapter 24: Patrick’s Abuse
Catch me on Atheists Talk Radio Tomorrow Morning!
Holy schinoozles, people, it’s official! I’m gonna be on Atheists Talk in the ay-em! It’s tomorrow! You should totally listen!
Dana Hunter is a science blogger at Scientific American and a blogger at The Orbit network. On her Rosetta Stones blog she is known for her writing about Mount St. Helens, her travel blogs about her geological adventures, women in science, and other gneiss schist. At her blog En Tequila es Verdad she writes about atheism, religious extremism, the implicationas and effects of religion on women, and many topics relating to social justice.
Dana joins us this Sunday to discuss her recently published book, Really Terrible Bible Stories – Volume 3: Leviticus….
Join us this Sunday as we discuss God’s instructions for BBQs, holy laundry, nutritional dictates, slavery and other instances of horrifying divine micromanagement.
It’s going to be awesome. And you don’t even have to get up early on a Sunday morning to do it! Instructions for getting the podcast or listening online are here.
Talk to you soon!
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(Repost) “The Gravity Keeping My World In Place Was Gone” – Escape Chapter 7: Marriage
All of the content warnings, people. Have your emergency kitten on standby. In the final pages of this chapter of Escape, we get a first-hand look at what a forced polygamous marriage looks like.
Two days ago, the Prophet announced Carolyn could go to college – but she has to marry virtual stranger and terrible human Merril Jessop first. Now, Carolyn, her dad, and her two moms arrive in Salt Lake City for her wedding to a man 32 years her senior. She hasn’t spoken with him. She doesn’t even want him to touch her. But when her father only gets two hotel rooms, she realizes she’s going to be forced to sleep with Merril. As her mothers get her dressed and coiffed for the ceremony, she feels like she’s “being prepared for a ritual sacrifice.” Continue reading “(Repost) “The Gravity Keeping My World In Place Was Gone” – Escape Chapter 7: Marriage”