Patriarchy, the one word all religions can be boiled down to. It’s permeated enough that in this day and age people think they still own their 26 year old daughters.
And he thinks she’s a virgin? Ok.
A ‘concerned father’ Patrick Stewart took out an ad in the magazine Christianity Today, basically pawning off his 26 year old daughter. The ad calls for suitors to come forward for her, the Daily Beast reports.
“Her: godly, gorgeous, athletic, educated, careered, humorous, travelled, bilingual, 26-year-old virgin,” the ad said. “You: unworthy, though becoming less so daily.” The disturbing ad, which somehow ended up in the jobs section of the magazine, read.
Christianity Today ran the ad both in print and online before their attention was drawn to it. They were able to take it down online, but the print version had already been sent out, so there’s little to be done about it.
“We want everything in our magazine to reflect beautiful orthodoxy, and this ad did not,” editor in chief, Mark Galli, said. “We have taken a hard look at our ad review process, made some changes, and we can assure our readers that no ad like this will appear again.”
Rachel Stewart, the daughter about whom the ad was made, took it in her stride. Her father did not inform her before doing it, but she’s used to such shenanigans from him concerning marriage.
“I’m just nervous if this doesn’t work out, next I’ll find my face plastered on a billboard,” she said, jokingly, in a blog post.
“Oh gosh, now I’m giving him ideas.”