On a routine errand, thirteen year old Nancy was arrested, tied down and "surgically raped" by being made to undergo a vaginal examination.Josephine Butler a nineteenth century Christian advocate, helped Nancy get safe.
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If a man hates his wife he should set her free from the marriage. That’s what Malachi 2:16 says. Updated post.
Malachi 2:15 has been mistranslated and used as a clobber verse to shame abused wives. Some recent English versions have slightly improved their translation of this verse, but to my knowledge none have given serious consideration to how Myles Coverdale translated it in the early 1500s. In Coverdale's translation, God says to husbands: "If you… Continue reading If a man hates his wife he should set her free from the marriage. That’s what Malachi 2:16 says. Updated post.