Controversial "liberal pastor" has purity rings melted down into vagina sculpture

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Controversial pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber — described several years ago by the Washington Post as the "tatted-up, foul-mouthed" leader of "a new, muscular form of liberal Christianity" — has now targeted what's known as the evangelical Christian "purity" culture.

The founding pastor of Denver's progressive House for All Sinners and Saints — part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America — apparently has such contempt for sexual purity that she had a whole bunch of purity rings melted down and turned into a vagina sculpture. She then presented the finished product to iconic left-wing feminist Gloria Steinem with a great big hug at a recent conference.

Bolz-Weber hatched her plan last year as a way to fight back against the "purity" movement in which young girls — mostly in the 1990s and 2000s — were given rings as symbols of their promise to abstain from sexual activity until marriage.

Bolz-Weber argued that such rings shamed girls. That period of time was also known for the "True Love Waits" campaign, which many teenagers signed.

So Bolz-Webber made her announcement on Twitter asking women to send in their purity rings for the "massive art project" — and [b]in exchange they'd each get a silicone "impurity" ring as well as a "Certificate of Impurity."

The clip also said one female welder agreed to make the sculpture after five men refused.