Of all of the things to attack House Speaker Mike Johnson for — and they’re using all the things, believe me — upholding purity might be the most asinine.
And revealing.
Mike Johnson is creepy (don’t you know?) because he encouraged his daughter not to use sex for entertainment.
Years before Mike Johnson would become second in line for president, a German TV news outlet profiled him and his then-teenage daughter preparing for and then attending a purity ball. “This looks like a wedding,” a news reporter says in German in a 2015 n-tv news segment unearthed by ABC News. “But they are not bride and groom — but rather father and … daughter,” the reporter adds, referring to Johnson and his then-13-year-old daughter, Hannah. The news segment examined purity balls and the purity movement among conservative Christians with the Johnson family as the lens, highlighting Johnson and his daughter at the ball with other pairs and showing Johnson’s daughter vowing and signing a pledge to live a life of purity.
The controversial formal dance event gained notoriety in the early 2000s but remained popular among some conservative Christians. Purity balls typically saw fathers and their teenage daughters dressed up for a night of dinner and dancing that ends with the daughter signing a pledge to her father to abstain from dating and remain sexually abstinent until marriage. The news segment features interviews with Johnson’s daughter, now in her 20s, vowing to her father “to make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future husband, and my future children … to a lifetime of purity, including sexual purity,” with shots of Johnson nodding in agreement interlaced.
How much hatred for Christianity and an outwardly Christian lifestyle must there be among the denizens of the Disney/ABC Newsroom in order that a wholesome event such as a purity ball be presented as sinister or bizarre?
A lot, obviously.
What’s the argument here? That Christian “purity balls,” in which little girls are treated as princesses by their fathers — a positive example of what expectations they should have of men — with the experience punctuated by a commitment to abstain from premarital sex, are somehow deviant?
Or unrealistic?
Sexual purity among unmarried women was never an absolute expectation, but neither was it uncommon before the cultural maelstrom of the 1960s. So the question is whether Mike Johnson is an anachronist, with the German media and ABC News, not to mention the rest of the Democrat operatives disguised as legacy media, serving as judges.
ABC News, of course, being … Disney. Where grooming children for sex — whether exotic or otherwise, but certainly without the benefit of marriage — appears to be a corporate sacrament both on air and behind the scenes.
These people really want you to believe they’re qualified to judge Mike Johnson’s moral fitness for leadership.
You should recognize the wider implication of all this because there’s more to it beyond the obvious anti-Christian bigotry of the legacy corporate media.
Remember the four numbers that govern so much of our politics and culture: married men are R+20, married women are R+14, unmarried men are R+7, and unmarried women are D+37.
And while you remember those numbers, don’t forget that there is a definite correlation for women between a substantial number of premarital sex partners and marital failure:
A new study by Brigham Young University’s Wheatley Institute in Utah has found that having multiple sexual partners before marriage could impact one’s future relationship prospects.
The study, titled “The Myth of Sexual Experience: Why Sexually Inexperienced Dating Couples Actually Go On to Have Stronger Marriages,” relied on data from 3,750 Americans in committed relationships with the opposite sex, including in the National Couples and Pornography Study. The report found that 10% to 20% of married adults who had only had sex with one person – their spouse – reported having a happier and higher quality union than those who had many sexual partners before getting hitched.
The study found that people who had more sexual partners tended to report lower levels of satisfaction in their marriages. Only 25% of married people who had five to nine sexual partners, and 14% of those who had been with 10 or more, reported a “very high level of relationship stability in their marriage.” On the other hand, 45% of those deemed “sexually inexperienced” reported the highest degree of stability. Moreover, nearly 80% of those who have had sex only with their partner reported greater emotional closeness in their relationship, which is over 20% higher than people who had multiple sexual partners before they got married.
“Our study confirms what other national studies have been finding the last few years, that sexually inexperienced dating couples are two to three times more likely to be in a highly stable marriage,” said Wheatley fellow Brian J. Willoughby, co-author of the report. “It appears that sexual exclusivity between spouses provides an underappreciated foundation for the intimacies of marriage and helps spouses create a mutually satisfying relationship founded on emotional intimacy and healthy communication.”
Perhaps Mike Johnson and his fellow “Jesus freaks” know something the groomers don’t?
Unlikely. What’s more plausible is both sides know the score but they’re after vastly different things.
Ask the old Roman question: cui bono? Who benefits?
Indoctrinate young women into the dubious wonders of premarital sex, together with feminist notions of careerism and the miseries of family life, and what do you get?
Well, you get D+37. And lots of it. Consider that unmarried women vote Democrat more than married do with an astonishing 51 percent delta, and you recognize how vociferous you can expect the dominant woke-left culture to be in enforcing its hegemony over Christian deviants like Johnson.
Meanwhile, the effect of that dominant woke-left culture on the young women in question is … well …
In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens. This gap was present in all years observed in the study (2005–18). It grew significantly starting in 2012, however, as depressive affect unilaterally spiked among liberals. Three years later, conservatives also began reporting increases in depression—although that rise tapered off relatively quickly while the increases among liberals continued.
Liberal girls tended to be significantly more depressed than boys, particularly after 2011. However, ideological differences swamped gender differences. Indeed, liberal boys were significantly more likely to report depression than conservatives of either gender. The authors also found that the more educated a teen’s family was, the more likely the young people were to be depressed, and the more dramatic their rise in depression was after 2012.
And here’s something you already know, but …
According to Add Health, probability sample young USA adults (14,276), women pursue more committed relationships, fewer sexual partners, and delayed sexual intercourse compared to men…very attractive men & unattractive women have most sexual partners https://t.co/UCOSyjwxCX pic.twitter.com/hQajcmRy4j
— David Schmitt (@PsychoSchmitt) December 7, 2017
In other words, the “creepy” purity ball culture produces women more attractive to men than woke/left body-count culture does.
It’s a fact that most people are well aware of, but, oh … it’s “misogynistic,” dontchaknow?
Body-count culture must be preserved for the advantages it produces not among those immersed in it but rather for the cultural and political elite who count on that D+37. And if you dissent, they call you names.
But what’s even more damning is that…
As it happens, being raised by liberal parents is a much larger risk factor for mental health problems in adolescence than being raised in a low-income household with parents who did not attend college. Children of conservative parents score significantly better on mental health using either a comprehensive measure of mental health based on several items, or just asking either parent or adolescents to summarize their mental health on a 1-5 scale. The gap is large. Adolescents with very conservative parents are 16 to 17 percentage points more likely to be in good or excellent mental health compared to their peers with very liberal parents. Only 55% of adolescents of liberal parents reported good or excellent mental health compared to 77% of those with conservative or very conservative parents.
No, there is no reason to believe that Disney’s news division, or any of the rest of the leftist media operatives who are clearly committed to preserving and expanding the D+37 demographic, are simply wrong. Or to give them the benefit of the doubt.
We’re past that now.
And we should be past the point where we allow these people to redefine deviancy after all they’ve done to us.
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