{"id":28915,"date":"2010-09-19T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=28915"},"modified":"2011-06-03T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:37:35","slug":"at-the-purity-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/at-the-purity-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Purity Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I Want to be Clean” — from the St. Petersberg Times<\/a>, July 25, 2010<\/p>\n

CLEARWATER \u2014 Wearing a long, white dress, 15-year-old Jasmin Latta walked down the aisle of St. John Primitive Baptist Church in North Greenwood and promised to not have sex until she’s married.<\/p>\n

Lance Latta called his daughter’s vow “one of my greatest accomplishments.”<\/p>\n

“It’s the fact that she understands the ramification of what can happen when you have premarital sex and that your body should be a treasure that you don’t just give to everybody,” said Latta, 42, who wore a black tuxedo.<\/p>\n

Eight other girls, ages 13 to 17, participated in the first-ever Purity Ball at the church on July 17. All the girls wore white dresses and, with their fathers or father-figure by their sides, made the same pledge of abstinence.<\/p>\n

The fathers then presented their daughters with a “pure heart ring.” The silver ring has a cross on each side and a heart surrounded by small diamonds in the middle. The girls and their fathers then headed to a ball at the nearby Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center.<\/p>\n

“I want to be clean,” said Camille Adams, 14. “I want to be a role model to other girls to let them know they should respect and protect their bodies.”<\/p>\n

“What’s most amazing is that they came up with this themselves,” said the Rev. Benjamin Adams, Camille’s uncle, who has been the pastor at St. John Primitive Baptist for 13 years.<\/p>\n

“They paid attention to what happens with girls they go to school with and concluded they didn’t want to be a statistic and made this vow to God that they will save themselves until marriage. That’s something I have to support both biblically and morally.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I Want to be Clean” — from the St. Petersberg Times, July 25, 2010 CLEARWATER \u2014 Wearing a long, white dress, 15-year-old Jasmin Latta walked down the aisle of St. John Primitive Baptist Church in North Greenwood and promised to not have sex until she’s married. Lance Latta called his daughter’s vow “one of my … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}