Showing posts with label People of Praise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label People of Praise. Show all posts

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Revealed: leaked video shows Amy Coney Barrett’s secretive faith group drove women to tears

…Barrett's question also appears to echo the People of Praise culture in which she was raised and has chosen to remain a part of, which emphasizes the importance of childbirth, pregnancy, and the abandonment of autonomy and privacy it supposedly entails, as a core part of what it means to be a woman…


Thursday, October 22, 2020

Revealed: ex-members of Amy Coney Barrett faith group tell of trauma and sexual abuse

"Anyone who was not charismatic was not to be trusted and most likely an operator for 'the evil one'. The devil was always trying to trick us and the only way to stay safe was to follow obediently the rules set up by 'the co-ordinators'," she said. "I was not allowed to watch TV for two years until that was no longer a directive; my mother could only cook with natural foods until that was no longer a fad … I was prohibited from owning a record/tape unless it was Christian rock."....


Sunday, October 11, 2020

'It instilled such problems': ex-member of Amy Coney Barrett's faith group speaks out

...'I don't think we should put her Catholicism on trial, but the Catholic conservative legal movement is putting liberalism on trial. They want to change a certain understanding of the liberal order of individual rights, and that is coming from the religious worldview of Catholic groups," he said...


Thursday, September 24, 2020

People of Praise: Former Member of Group Tied to SCOTUS Front-Runner Amy Barrett Calls it a Cult

As President Trump appears poised to announce a nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, we speak with a former member of the secretive Catholic group People of Praise, known for its rigid gender roles and lifelong loyalty oaths, which apparent front-runner Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a member of. “Many call it a community, but I describe it as a cult,” says Coral Anika Theill, who was a member of People of Praise from 1979 to 1984 and is now speaking out against the organization.....







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