Take a minute to watch this. This is a very serious issue. We are at a time in our history when it is deemed criminal to have a Biblical view of marriage. This is being dubbed "The civil rights issue of our time" - so as to equate same-sex marriage with racial equality. However, defining marriage legally as being "between a man and a woman" is NOT the same as upholding Jim Crow laws, burning crosses in lawns, mass lynchings and the like. This is NOT a hate-crime, and those who define marriage in a traditional way should not be painted with this same hate-brush.
Check out this video about a father who went to jail just because he wanted his children's school to give him proper notice about what they were teaching his 5-year old. Watch it - then PRAY for our nation.
BTW - if you live in CA - Please vote YES on Prop. 8
Sunday, November 2, 2008
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steve,
I'm pretty sure he went to jail because he wouldn't leave school grounds, not because he didn't agree with the diversity book bag.
It seems the other way though...
Jason - the point is, as a parent he should have been notified. I probably would have done the same thing.
Steve,
I'm really not trying to be difficult here or argumentative... Honestly! And I agree, but Focus and others are trying to make the perception that he got arrested for arguing with the school administration when he actually got arrested for not leaving the school.
It does matter because it plays on the fear mongering the right is using right now. Have you heard the "letter from 2012" that Focus has put out? Horrible and slanderous. If I went to my kids school and had a disagreement over, let me see... them teaching oral hygiene and we couldn't come to an agreement and I felt they we'rent listening to me so I stayed and was eventually arrested for not leaving, it wouldn't imply I was arrested for my disagreement on oral hygiene...
I agree with everything your saying and totally agree that believers should vote righteously, and campaign to some extent, but the manner in which they are doing it doesn't sit right with me...
And we are engaged in a major culture war... If the church chooses to fight to the death then it will probably die. We need to have a little more faith that God hasn't abandoned us.
I do agree with you on most if not all of these points. His choice to stay, call it civil disobedience or call it stupidity or whatever resulted in his arrest. I probably didn't make it clear that I got that point - he didn't have to get himself arrested - I got it, he could have left. I think it's wrong to make a martyr out of him for that reason - and yes it is going too far to say that he was arrested for his faith. He was simply adamant about the fact that he wasn't aware of what had been tought and was pretty ticked (and probably a jerk about it - I would be!)
What he DID DO though, was call attention to the fact that the school district basically gave parents the proverbial one-way sign and told them they no longer have a say in what their 5yr olds are taught about sexuality and marriage. That is the disturbing little bit we shouldn't ignore.
Do I think we can "legislate morality" - of course not. But as a christian, and a parent - I am concerned that we aren't just moving in the wrong direction - we're probably already too far gone.
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