As The Driven Snow

Let it be said that I have no opinion on "Purity Balls."  But I tend to agree with Julie Ponzi and Kathleen Parker that the virulent reaction against them says at least as much about those who are against Purity Balls as those who are for them.  These balls are an unsurprising reaction to the raunch culture described by Ariel Levy in her controversial book Female Chauvinist Pigs.  The reaction against these balls shows the limits of liberal tolerance.  Example.  If there was an event in which gay high school aged boys and their fathers made a public vow to support each other and those fathers vowed to embrace their sons' homosexuality, the progressive left would champion such an event as a step in the direction of equal justice and as a beautiful celebration of diversity.  When Bob Ellis and Steve Sibson wrote their predictable blogs post denouncing such an event as the end of civilization, they would be condemned by the left for their narrow mindedness and their insufficient commitment to diversity.   So why the hatred directed towards Purity Balls and those that support them?  Evidently liberal tolerance of different lifestyles and the liberal commitment to diversity ends when it is conservative Christians having an event where they make public commitments to defending their way of life.  If you don't like Purity Balls, don't go to one.