[UntoHim]

Drake,

You're the one who keeps bringing up rape. I suspect that you have used the word twice as much as anyone else. Yet you have nothing to say about the many cases of sexual abuse being committed. Methinks you may want to pull that phone pole out of your own eye before worrying so much about the toothpick in someone else's.

The crux of the issue, as it is with most issues within the Local Church of Witness Lee, is Witness Lee himself. He was decidedly hardened to the concerns and needs of women/sisters. While he did have the legitimate built in excuse of being a product of ancient Chinese/Asian culture, where women were treated as less than second class citizens, he brought this misogynistic dynamic to whole new heights (or lows as it were) in the LC movement. While wistleblowing in general was highly discouraged, it was/is especially taboo for girls and women to report abuse perpetrated upon them. This became all the more of an extreme dilemma when it was a person of trust.

Ok, let's all wave our magic wands and POOF - the term rape was never brought up - THERE! Happy now? Now let's get real about the abuses that have been perpetrated against girls/women/sisters in the Local Church - Past, present and the abject danger of it happening in the future. Even modern secular society is taking action in the protecting of girls and women (finally), how much more of a responsibility for those who would consider themselves the household of God?
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