[Night Hides Not]

Don't get mad at me, but I tell my 17 year old son: "it's ok to date women with tattoos and body piercings, but you won't want to marry one".

Nomex suit is on...before anyone gets too fired up, my main point has to do with finding a mate who minimizes risky behavior.

[Mr. Blonde]

My parents don't even have to tell me that. I can't imagine how fired up they both would be if I told them I wanted to marry a girl with anything more than (normal) ear rings and if they have a tattoo it better not be readily visible. Of course both of those are getting harder and harder to find. I would guess that the number of girls with a tramp stamp hovers around 60% nevermind any other number of tattoos. And although nose rings have fallen out of favor when I first got to college I could have sworn they were handed out in orientation.

[GOP Poet]

I think this happens a lot. I am sure their are Republicans (If I was a parent, I would probably be one of them) that say stay away from those liberal women and God forbid, don't marry one!

Yet, I would teach my child to treat people with respect and to use Jesus' behavior as a guide. One thing I love about Jesus is he loved people and wanted them to understand how much God loved them. But he also told them, "Go and sin no more." This latter aspect of Jesus is so left out of even Christian understanding. He also saw the devil and named him and this is where the whole Muslim issue comes to mind. Is it an evil religion? I have intuitively felt this for sometime. Yet, I want to be cautious. For if it is I need to fully protect myself from all of its influence as I do with all evil.

[wai-ming]

"it's ok to date women with tattoos and body piercings, but you won't want to marry one"

I tell my children, "be careful whom you choose to date, you will eventually marry one of them."