“I’ve felt from the age of . . . always . . . that if you were a woman in the church you weren’t respected. I saw that the church intrinsically believed women were not as important to God as men. It was in how we were treated. Were we girls taught that God had amazing plans for us—married or not, with kids or not, that we had our own purpose? No. We were taught to support somebody else’s purpose, and given biblical reflections on ‘partner and submit.’ Were we girls taught to be warriors? To gird ourselves and be as prepared for life as possible? No. We were trained to be supportive, nice, and
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