Laura began to see religious purity teachings as distinctly cultural, and to recognize how the white American evangelical church had exported these teachings across the country and the world. The history of US-based purity purveyor True Love Waits alone offers an illustration: In 1995, they displayed 220,000 purity pledges from thirteen countries in Argentina; in 2004, they displayed over 460,000 pledges from twenty countries in Athens, Greece; in 2007, they hosted an international summit in South Africa and announced a $950,000 expansion of its abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in South
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