Oh dear - Gloriavale heads not happy.

[Lilith7]

This isn't a family home. This is an enormous live in working institution that exploits the many in order to profit from and promote the power dreams of the few. Just like any other large commercial organisation.

Religion, through the abuse of the sacred,  is simply their marketing campaign.

The trouble with our growing focus on 'consent', is that consent is based on understanding. When understanding is blocked by propaganda and long term - multigenerational? - brainwashing then it simply does not exist. And, in 21st century Aotearoa that is simply unacceptable, be it religion, culture, ethnicity, or gender based.

Perhaps it may be time to look very carefully at religious schools of all kinds, including what we think of as mainstream religion & what they're teaching kids.  It may not be so bad now when virtually everyone has access to the net & wider knowledge (both good & bad) but it might not be such a bad idea to take measures to prevent places such as Gloriavale from brainwashing kids while claiming  education.

That's likely to be an extremely thorny thing to set up & not without some controversy.