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How Should You Talk to Your Children About Same-Sex Marriage?
Moore to the Point ^ | June 29, 2015 | Russell Moore

Posted on 07/09/2015 4:20:49 PM PDT by Maudeen

With the Supreme Court decision last week legalizing same-sex marriage in the United States, some Christian parents wonder how they ought to explain all of this to their small children. So how does one teach about the law and the controversy, without exposing one’s children to more than they can handle?

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KEYWORDS: marriage
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Your view is not the view of the God of the Bible. Read Romans 1.


41 posted on 07/09/2015 8:24:47 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Maudeen

We raised them explaining how nature works and to understand there are occasional defects...


42 posted on 07/09/2015 8:25:18 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Maudeen

If they are old enough they need to be told the truth, do not dress up anal sex in flowery civil rights and love language.

Young people should be told straight up details about homosexuals, so as to resist the predatory nature of the “gay community”.


43 posted on 07/09/2015 8:26:21 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

So your argument is that people can be born with 3 legs, 2 heads, with their sibling inside of them, missing limbs, with both a penis and a vagina, with no sexual organs, and a myriad of other defects... but being born with a defect that makes others of the same sex attractive to them is impossible?


44 posted on 07/09/2015 8:37:59 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Look up “conflation”


45 posted on 07/09/2015 8:58:51 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: goodwithagun

Charming.

I feel sorry for parents who have to raise their children in this current state of cultural rot. My children are grown. Of course, I worry about my grandsons.


46 posted on 07/10/2015 3:08:27 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Maudeen

My written response to my 14-year old grand-daughter overlaying the rainbow colors on her FB profile pic...

“Marriage is between a man and a woman ..only. There is something very very unique about the relationship between a man and a woman. It comes from Nature itself. Man and woman were created to join together providing a necessary function for our species. Only a man and a woman are capable of producing new humans and providing a family unit in which children can develop within the important embrace and example of a loving mother and a father. Throughout History and over all the world humans have recognized and celebrated the uniqueness of this pairing as essential to our survival as a species and stability of our society. No other relationship comes even close to being equivalent to Marriage. If homosexuals wish to form a civil union between each other, they certainly should have that right but they can not claim that their union is a ‘marriage’.

What has happened in the US is, in a 5-4 decision, judges have gone beyond the limits of their responsiblility and have imposed upon the people something that should be the right of individual States to determine. It has set a dangerous judicial precedent and is a matter of grave concern not celebration.
We must always remember that Truth is not determined by a majority vote and that sometimes we have to follow the path of Truth and Reason even when it seems everyone else is going the other way.

Anyway M_____, I understand how you might want to support what has happened...you hear people saying ‘it’s only fair...why shouldn’t they be able to...and so forth’ and you have a good heart and naturally want to be fair, I’m sure at your age I would have felt the same way...but there is much more to this. Marriage is a house, so to speak, for a man and a woman. It has existed since human beings have been around. It has had many forms but through much learning we have eliminated the bad aspects of it (such as forced marriage and polygamy) and accentuated the postive aspects of it. Now one man and one woman in our culture are free to follow their hearts and choose their spouse, providing that stable family unit of a man and a woman so important to our children, our species and society. It is very important for us to defend marriage. For some homosexuals to claim our house and attempt to move into it and redecorated it is actually the opposite of being fair. There are many homosexuals that understand this and do not support ‘gay marriage’ while they are open to forming a pairing unique to them, building their own house, for example by way of a civil union.”

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My post to her was deleted. I am waiting to speak to her in person to understand why it was removed. I’m also going to give her a written copy that hopefully she will hang on to and be able to look at in the future when Grandpa is gone and perhaps then understand and appreciate the messsage more fully.


47 posted on 07/10/2015 4:01:50 AM PDT by kanawa
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Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately many young people have tuned out their elders on this one. I have relatives who have done the same. Very sad.


48 posted on 07/11/2015 8:17:15 AM PDT by Maudeen
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To: kanawa

[I’m also going to give her a written copy that hopefully she will hang on to and be able to look at in the future when Grandpa is gone and perhaps then understand and appreciate the messsage more fully.]

We must continue to stand on the Promises concerning our grandchildren. God’s promises are for our children and children’s children.

Declare the Scriptures over them. They will eventual come into alignment with the Word.


49 posted on 07/11/2015 9:22:44 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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