Michelle is a victim here, and I don't believe I implied otherwise.

My scorn is for her parents and the system of repression that they represent.

Michelle's decision, whether she sees it that way or not, is at its heart perversely skewed by a system of destructive sexual repression embodied in fundamentalist religion. I refer back to her comment about "since I was little..." Note also that she was homeschooled, an increasingly common tactic amongst the most extreme fundamentalist sects to ensure that children are not exposed to any influence outside the reach of the home and church. Michelle's choice was deliberately limited, her freedom of thought restricted, and her natural maturation stolen from her to advance a very specific agenda of control.

As for your sexual choices, hers, Elizabeth's, or anybody else's, I make no judgement whatever. Had Michelle Vitt made this decision outside the environment of oppressive, misogynistic, warped and sequestered theocratic authoritarianism, it would not have garnered comment either from me or from the local newspaper.

My issue is with Mr. and Mrs. Vitt, and their religion that seeks to dominate and regulate the sexual behavior of everyone it can get its tentacles wrapped around, and with a culture and media that kneels obsequiously before its altar of degradation of the human condition.

I make no apologies for not dancing respectfully and lightly around a system of debasement, with respectful words of polity.

I will not lie below, and I will not stand by quietly while others are forced to lie below. It does not matter if they are forced by indoctrination or by sword, it is coercive either way, and I will not be silent or polite about that.

In short, I am angry for Michelle, not at her.

Best to you as well,

JanieBelle

Kisses,

JanieBelle

Dream a little dream of me.