Christian Kids in State Colleges: Postscript

This is a postscript to the Christian Kids in State Colleges piece even though these comments are largely restricted to primary and high school settings.

http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2023/06/inbox-christian-kids-in-state-colleges-i.html

Sodomite Story Hour

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47203976

By now many will have encountered this story but many readers will not understand just how shocking and surreal this is.

This would have been absolutely unthinkable a generation ago. This kind of perversity was relegated to the back alleys and the seedy parts of town. Mainstream society, Christian or not did not view such things favourably or even with much amusement.

If there was amusement it was mocking, shock-value type of amusement represented in popular songs like Lola and Dude Looks Like a Lady. It was something you laughed at but at the same time it was something shameful and dirty. If you saw a cross-dresser out in public it was the sort of thing your blocked your kids from seeing.

The Sin of Transgenderism

http://www.christianpost.com/news/justin-welby-to-worried-christian-couple-transgender-children-at-school-not-a-problem-200168/

I watched some of the video clips of the parents on the news in the UK. I was struck by their confusion and inability to articulate their concerns. They appeared petty, arbitrary and unprincipled. Perhaps they're timid? I don't know. Perhaps they fear the ferocious backlash were they to speak out in a more direct fashion.

If they were trying to take an easy road, they have certainly learned by now that it didn't work.

Parenting, Values and Culture

http://www.rosemond.com/September-2016.html

I don't really know much about the author but his columns often appear in the local newspaper. Sometimes the advice is good and I admit this despite my general hostility to the theological and philosophical underpinnings of psychology and much of the counseling movement.

Homeschooled Stormtroopers

Homeschooled young men joining the military...

It seems like it's been happening a lot lately and it grieves me to no end.

I have witnessed several incidents of homeschooling families who have laboured for years to raise their children 'different' who have separated from family, churches and friends in order to maintain the standards and ideals they believed were right...

Only to hand over their sons to the US military.