As far as I can tell, there are two main differences. First, Gothard’s cult was about two notches more prescriptive. For example, in my churches, kissing before marriage was just frowned upon whereas it was totally verboten in Gothard’s cult.
My parents were amazing, actually
TW: Sexual abuse Sex, I had to learn as an adult, is not something with which everyone is obsessed. I could be forgiven for the misapprehension, though, being raised in Southern Baptist churches in the True Love Waits era. Not long ago, it occurred to me that someone who was obsessed with sex, many someones, came up with the ideas and wrote the curricula leadership shared with me in church, growing up.
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