The Story That Started the Debate for Me On Feb. 19th, I encountered a Utah news report citing an article by LDS sex therapist, Natasha Helfer Parker, entitled, Morality? We can do much better than this… . Her blogpost criticized a BYU-Idaho campus devotional address given by general authority, Elder Tad R. Callister, in which Parker remarks, "[Elder Callister's] article successfully sets us [LDS society in general] back about 35 years [regarding 'rape culture']." (Callister's devotional address is being reprinted in the 2014 March Ensign and Liahona magazines ). To fully appreciate this post, you should quickly review both of their remarks. Before reading Parker's criticism, I had never heard the term, rape culture . Rape Culture — " Within feminism, rape culture is a concept that links rape and sexual violence to the culture of a society, and in which prevalent attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, and even condone...
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