Christianity Today

I know a number of ex-members of the Family have worked as strippers, but was surprised to read here that many of them walk the streets as prostitutes. If you could share more about this with me my e-mail is samajemian@sbcglobal.net Thank you.

The April 2012 article in Christianity Today entitled “The Family Cleans House” states the group allowed sex between non-marrieds, implying that married members were not having sex with other members. The truth is married members were free to have sex with single members. Couple other errors in the article are that both flirty fishing and sex of adults with minors stopped in 1987. The truth is that they both continued, but in a much smaller scale. The author defines flirty fishing as using sex to make converts. I wonder if he knows that the group was also involved in prostitution, even prostitution of minors. More seriously, the main message of this short article is that as a result of significant changes introduced in a number of cult publications in 2010, collectively referred to as Reboot, the group “is leaving its sex cult history behind.” Unfortunately anybody who has read the entire Reboot of about 200 pages knows that even at this time where the group is throwing out the window so many other things, they made a clear decision not to abandon their much cherished and most fundamental doctrine, the so-called Law of Love. According to this doctrine you can have sex with anybody as long as you are motivated by love and not lust. It supersedes both the Old and New Testaments. I don’t know if sex of adults with minors has stopped completely, but after many years of officially not allowing it, they announced in the Reboot that anybody in the group who wants to can now have sex with outsiders. So in this area at least, the group is getting worse and not better. Here are some quotations from the Reboot on the subject. Reboot 8. Lifestyle. “If a member of the Family chooses to engage in sex outside of marriage (with a member or nonmember), it should be within the guidelines of the Law of Love.” Reboot 14. Applying the Law of Love. “There are no longer restrictions on sexual relations with nonmembers.” Reboot 14. Applying the Law of Love. “As you know, the previous restrictions have been lifted regarding whom members of the FTI can have sexual relationship with. Peter and I are happy about this change. We believe that it will lead to wonderful friendships, relationships, and marriages.” On top of all this the horrible “Loving Jesus” doctrine continues to be practiced according to which even boys as young as fourteen are instructed to imagine they are female and to visualize that Jesus Christ is penetrating their vaginas. They are encouraged to masturbate and ejaculate to Him. In conclusion, there is absolutely no basis in suggesting as this Christianity Today article also does that this cult is adopting a “more conservative sexuality.” I think that another article should follow to try to counterbalance some of this very false information. Written by Sam Ajemian samajemian@sbcglobal.net

To me, this just sounds like an odd cult with odd ideas. Anything which deviates from the Bible and sound living is to be left somewhere else. In my humble opinion it should just disband and people should go back to the Bible; full stop.