“There’s no indication or evidence that this woman’s a whore. Not in the article. Maybe in your mind. “
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There have been some very strange conclusions reached in this thread——all because of a mother,a child,and a dance.
I would want to add, too, that I was raised never to call a child born out of wedlock a “bastard”. “There are no illegitimate children,” Sr. Mary Rita told me, “although there ARE illegitimate mothers and fathers.”
The words “bastard” and “illegitimate” are not used in Catholic moral texts, where the tern for a baby born outside the bonds of marriage is “natural child”.