Protecting Your Children: Revisited

NOTE: Any parents that read this to your children, please read through this first.

I wouldn't consider myself a news junkie, but on my lunch-break at work most days, I'll point my browser to FoxNews.com to catch up on what's going on in the world. What I realize is that the news is very depressing (I know...DUH!!). Something else I realize is that my post on protecting your children is not too harsh. Possibly not harsh enough. I don't know how many articles in the last couple of months I have read or seen about child endangerment, child porn, child abuse, child abduction, child rape, child neglect...the list could go on. I understand that these things have been going on in the world for a very, very long time; but to this degree? Obviously the most publicized is the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. My wife summed it up for me when she said “What kind of monster lives inside that man that makes him want to disfigure himself like that and do the things he does?” I say he's a pervert. He's perverted sex. He's perverted life (his, his children, other peoples children). He's even perverted his physical appearance. My wife turned the radio on one morning to catch the weather. The radio was set to talk radio. The announcer was talking about this particular trial in great detail; explicit detail. This brings me to a major point. Do we need this kind of detail? This local station is supposed to be a conservative (yet secular) station. I believe they thought they were just “bringing the news”. We are being bombarded with this kind of explicit information. Once again, this may be the media's way of “bringing the news”. Maybe they hope the details will disgust us (which many times they do).

I perused one article about Hollywood filming a new movie. I was appalled, so I didn't finish it. It is a movie about a thirteen year old girl. Typically not a problem to cast a movie about a thirteen year old girl. The catch is, she was supposed to have a lesbian love scene in the movie. Now the dilemma. Who in their right mind is going to allow Hollywood to film a thirteen year old girl in a lesbian love scene? They interviewed several girls who were of age to make a movie like this “..but they all looked too old”. What are they trying to do to this country?!?! With the explicit details we get from the media mixed with films filled with this filth, are they pushing some sort of an agenda? They got the country to accept homosexuality, is pedophilia next? Is the media going to callous us regarding this while the film/entertainment industry portrays it as socially acceptable. You don't think a movie like this depicting what appears to be a thirteen year old engaged in lesbian sex is going to turn some perverted freak on? Making them want to have a young lover like that? In a society that gets what they want; and if they can't get it, they take it? We wonder why people would do harmful things to children. Two words for you: Firing Squad. I feel okay saying that. Jesus said anyone offending children would be better off with a millstone hung around their necks and cast into the sea. I think my method may be a little more humane.

It got me wondering what the consensual sex age was in the different States. It varies from 16 to 18 mostly. Some are 14 if the other partner is under 21. Did you know that many states have a consensual age for men-to-men sex and female-to-female sex? Check for yourself. Where are we headed?

Churches aren't a safe haven like many think, either. Women, please understand that men/boys are visual people. Don't tempt them with the way you dress or with the clothes you wear (or don't wear). I remember when I was thirteen. Focusing on the sermon was hard enough in itself alone. Then throw in scantily clad females and there is no way I could pay attention to the minister. I don't know the last time I was in a church that the women and girls actually dressed like modest ladies (I can think of maybe one or two, and we've visited a lot of churches). How do you expect your children to remain pure when going to school (or church) and the girls are dressed like prostitutes? Seem harsh and over-reactant? We left a church a few years back. We left for several reasons. One reason was because of the dress of some of the ladies. One lady I'll mention. She was probably fifty years old. She was not an overly-attractive women, but she kept her shape pretty well. She wore the shortest skirts I think I have ever seen. She was a Sunday School teacher for young children. When we were talking to one of the elders about why we were leaving the church, dress became a topic. He shook his head like he understood what we were saying. I mentioned “a” Sunday School teacher (not by name mind you). He said “I know who you are talking about. She has been a topic in our household.” He went on to say “Troy, how do you think it makes me feel when my five year old grandchild says 'grandpa, when our teacher bends over in Sunday School, I can see her panties.'”? I asked what the elders were doing about it. “Oh, we can't do anything about it.” I disagreed. If it makes them angry and runs them off, so be it. You don't need people like that working in the church, polluting young (and old) people.

Youth groups can be dangerous. I mentioned that before. Christian summer camp was a breeding ground for hormones (and just plane a breeding ground for some). Hundreds of kids with a few counselors to watch them all. Right. I know what goes on. So do your children.

Alright, I've vented enough. I really try to make this blog encouraging. Sometimes I succeed. I know that most times I sound angry. Usually because I am angry. Angry at what the church has become. Angry at the direction the country is headed. Maybe I'm too emotionally attached to the world. Maybe I need to focus on me and my family. I know I focus on them and their protection. Some of our family think that we are over-protective. Then I read the news and know for a fact that we are NOT over-protective.

God Bless!

“…holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” Heb. 12:14