My nana
is 92 years old and giving staff at the nursing home a hard time.

Apparently, and this is a long way back now, but each time she gave birth, she was made to go to the front of the church and pray for forgiveness for the sin of having sex which resulted in the baby. This, despite being married.

My grandfather, (who died when my mum was 18 and was by all accounts a bit of a bastard) now was he made to ask for forgiveness as I'm pretty sure he had something to do with the conception?? Like fun he was!

Now fair enough this was eons ago and I'm pretty sure this kind of thing doesn't still happen in contemporary society (although this was in Ireland so maybe the same still applies, who knows) but it still makes me seethe with rage a little whenever I think about it. Fecking sexism in religion.
(Eldoofus, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 20:09, 2 replies)

What I don't get
Is that your Nana had to seek forgiveness for having sex, which is the tried and tested method for having babies. How did they expect her to get pregnant if she wasn't supposed to be humping??
(RVD420 has his world coming down on, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 21:47, closed)

Sound as if she was being "churched"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churching_of_women
(ubergeekian, Tue 24 Mar 2009, 17:08, closed)