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Admittedly I have better things to be doing, but right now I'm watching WifeSwap on Lifetime. There is a fundie lite family (public school, girls can wear pants) that keeps talking about training children, remaining pure, staying happy all the time, and avoiding certain types of dance. The new wife felt so bad for the fundie kids (the Grimes family). When the son in that family said that women should stay home and men should work, the dad said "that's my boy!"

Oh and they are all about the purity rings.

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Was the Grimes family the family where the Mom had the "Brain" aka a planner where she wrote everything down? If so, they swapped with a family that lives nearby. (Just checked and I'm correct.) Mrs Grimes seemed so controlled. I don't think there was any genuine happiness in that family.

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I've been watching Wife Swap lately because I'm folding laundry and hoping they'll put Grey's Anatomy reruns back on. There seem to be a large number of fundie-light families doing the show. I'm surprised that they would sign up for it, but amused that once the cameras roll they seem surprised at how the show works. Really?? :doh:

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Was the Grimes family the family where the Mom had the "Brain" aka a planner where she wrote everything down? If so, they swapped with a family that lives nearby. (Just checked and I'm correct.) Mrs Grimes seemed so controlled. I don't think there was any genuine happiness in that family.

Yea it was.

She seemed so scary in her false happiness

I'm also wondering if all the fundies are signing up as some sort of a way to spread their religion

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Damn I just caught the last few minutes of it. Now I'm admittedly sucked into the zone that is this show. This cowboy mom is a nutjob as well.

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Trading Spouses is show that is similar to Wife Swap. It was the show that had "God Warrior" Marguerite Perrin on it. (It's worth viewing on YouTube.) On a one hour episode my daughter and I caught this summer, a conservative Bush-loving Xtian mom from California swapped with a liberal Jewish mom from Maryland. The Christian mom wanted to buy Bush stuff in DC while the Maryland mom had to go with the California family to a farm where they had all this faux colonial stuff. The Jewish mother did go briefly to the other mom's bible study, but the Christian mom didn't seem interested in knowing more about her host family's Jewish faith.

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I'm a little addicted to Wife Swap. Not going to lie. There are a lot of religious people because I think they like people from really extreme situations.

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I'm a little addicted to Wife Swap. Not going to lie. There are a lot of religious people because I think they like people from really extreme situations.

I LOVE Wife Swap!

I even had a daydream about me being swapped with Zsu!

(and this might make a fun game... who swappped with whom)

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I remember one of the Trading Spouses or Wife Swap episodes where the dad pulled his kid out of the home because the swapped mom told her she could be a doctor when she was older if she wanted to. :( The little girl, Columbia, was like 12, and her dad wouldn't bring her back into the house unless the swap mom promised not to "tell her things that aren't true."

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I LOVE Wife Swap!

I even had a daydream about me being swapped with Zsu!

(and this might make a fun game... who swappped with whom)

I'm watching it now and it's all your fault! :D I vote Brandy and the Duggars, I think.

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I like that show, but I find it's less extreme now than when it first started... the Gary Bucey (!) vs Tim Haggard (!!) episode was kinda a letdown.

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I remember one of the Trading Spouses or Wife Swap episodes where the dad pulled his kid out of the home because the swapped mom told her she could be a doctor when she was older if she wanted to. :( The little girl, Columbia, was like 12, and her dad wouldn't bring her back into the house unless the swap mom promised not to "tell her things that aren't true."

That's the family I thought of when I clicked on this thread.

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I remember one of the Trading Spouses or Wife Swap episodes where the dad pulled his kid out of the home because the swapped mom told her she could be a doctor when she was older if she wanted to. :( The little girl, Columbia, was like 12, and her dad wouldn't bring her back into the house unless the swap mom promised not to "tell her things that aren't true."

Yea, that family made the Grimes family seem anti-fundie. I like watching this episode because of how both families were Christian, but one family showed you can be Christian and allow women to have their rights.

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I miss this show. They used to show it on Fridays on ABC here but they don't anymore. Then there were reruns on Slice but I don't think they show it either. The God Warrior lady was classic. Just the way she screamed and went so ballistic. It was nuts. I really looked forward to the Haggard episode. It was okay. It had Gary Busey so it was automatically hilarious, but Haggard wouldn't talk about the scandal really except to push his bullshit and for his wife to promote her book.

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I did catch the Grimes family last night (insomnia is great when shows are rerun :P) While they are definitely fundie-lite, they have nothing on God's Warrior from Trading Spouses. I was dying laughing at her tyrade at the end until I saw her granddaughter.. scared out of her f'n mind.

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I remember one of the Trading Spouses or Wife Swap episodes where the dad pulled his kid out of the home because the swapped mom told her she could be a doctor when she was older if she wanted to. :( The little girl, Columbia, was like 12, and her dad wouldn't bring her back into the house unless the swap mom promised not to "tell her things that aren't true."

That was actually the episode I was going to bring up, and when I read "fundie-lite" in the title I knew it wouldn't be this family. The fundie family was the Childs family, and the family they swapped with were the Beckman-Hasketts, Lutherans I believe and very liberal compared to the Childses. My heart ached for poor Columbia, she clearly wanted to be a doctor, and she was getting a taste of what her life could be like as a Christian but without her father imposing his doctrine on her, thanks to Kim. But that's just what her father did, interrupting a crucial heart-to-heart Columbia and Kim were having and dragging her away to the car until Kim quit "imposing her beliefs on her". She dejectedly said at the end something to the effect of how she'd rather stay home, and the Beckman-Haskett family said that they were praying for Columbia. I was praying for her too afterward. :cry:

This was the family that could actually be considered my gateway fundies and got me interested in others, such as the Duggars and the Maxwells. There was some interview shortly afterward where Columbia said she didn't know what she really wanted to do and was just trusting God for direction, rather than explicitly saying that she wanted to be a doctor or a housewife. With the help of my good buddy Google I found her Twitter and as a result also found brother Coburn's and sister Daisy's Twitter accounts. They three are apparently still Christians but it looks like Christopher either loosened up on them or they managed to wiggle out from under his thumb somehow, judging from some of the things they follow and tweet about. If that's true then I'm happy for them. I'm not sure what they're doing with their lives now but they at least seem happy and freer than before.

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That was actually the episode I was going to bring up, and when I read "fundie-lite" in the title I knew it wouldn't be this family. The fundie family was the Childs family, and the family they swapped with were the Beckman-Hasketts, Lutherans I believe and very liberal compared to the Childses. My heart ached for poor Columbia, she clearly wanted to be a doctor, and she was getting a taste of what her life could be like as a Christian but without her father imposing his doctrine on her, thanks to Kim. But that's just what her father did, interrupting a crucial heart-to-heart Columbia and Kim were having and dragging her away to the car until Kim quit "imposing her beliefs on her". She dejectedly said at the end something to the effect of how she'd rather stay home, and the Beckman-Haskett family said that they were praying for Columbia. I was praying for her too afterward. :cry:

This was the family that could actually be considered my gateway fundies and got me interested in others, such as the Duggars and the Maxwells. There was some interview shortly afterward where Columbia said she didn't know what she really wanted to do and was just trusting God for direction, rather than explicitly saying that she wanted to be a doctor or a housewife. With the help of my good buddy Google I found her Twitter and as a result also found brother Coburn's and sister Daisy's Twitter accounts. They three are apparently still Christians but it looks like Christopher either loosened up on them or they managed to wiggle out from under his thumb somehow, judging from some of the things they follow and tweet about. If that's true then I'm happy for them. I'm not sure what they're doing with their lives now but they at least seem happy and freer than before.

I just found the mom's facebook. Her profile pic is the family minus the dad... I'm guessing they're not together anymore for whatever reason. Columbia has a facebook as well.

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