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By ROD DREHER • February 19, 2014
As you might have seen, The New Republic published a piece alleging sexual assault and a culture of homeschooling-driven Christian patriarchy at Patrick Henry College. I blogged earlier today complaining about how the piece inaccurately and unjustly tarred all homeschoolers with a particular extreme gender ideology. Well, there’s more. This e-mail came in tonight from a reader whose name I’m withholding in case he doesn’t want it public:
Hey Rod, I’m a regular reader of your blog and a PHC Sophmore.
I’ve been exposed to some of the worst of the conservative christian homeschool movement, I’ve seen the some of the abuses and harm that the patriarchy movement can do in the lives of many dear friends of mine. I have seen young women, who have been sexually abused and then told it was their fault. I have no desire to protect or cover up a group or organization which is destroying the lives of women. They do exist.
PHC is not one them.
One of the annoying thing about being a Patrick Henry student is having to see article after article that basically publishes blatant lies. I know these people, and I know people connected to the incidents. Some of the facts reported by the Slate are fabrications, others bits leave out important information, and also seem one sided. The monstrous Dean Corbitt described in the article is almost unrecognizable. She seems like a twisted distortion of the friendly, cheerful woman who is always seems to be willing to help out all the students. One friend of mine, noted after reading the article, that the New Republic article, seems to blast the conservative homeschool movement for it’s traditional gender roles, and then seems to blast Corbitt for being a career woman. Can you really have it both ways?
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