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[–]akkordeonplayer 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not totally shocked, though. "Sanctity of the human body" was always considered a big issue for Christians at large, and many old hospitals were started by clergy/religious organizations in some form or another.

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Some Christians in the US though are now "spaying away the gay" i.e., transitioning gay children because a heterosexual "girl" is better than a gay boy.

[–]akkordeonplayer 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I know, didn't Pat Robertson come out in support of this? It's insane. Then again, there is a subset of US Christianity that was always big on beauty pageant culture, which also coincided with accepting plastic surgery as a "way of life". I remember back when JonBenet Ramsey was murdered (a child who happened to be a beauty pageant contestant), there was a sudden interest in beauty pageant subculture. I remember surfing on some web boards that discussed them-- and I was shocked when I realized how many parents literally bought breast implants for their teenaged daughters so they could be "competitive" in the pageant circuit. The children who competed often had their hair dyed, wore fake teeth, wore colored eye contacts, had spray-on tans, etc.. which also shocked me. This was back in the 90s so I can only imagine it's worse now.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ironically, I thought the JonBenet Ramsey case largely killed the public appetite for child pageantry. Now we have child drag queens and no one dares speak out against it.