[gidget7]

It is the activists who are fixated on this issue, which has forced us to be. Our wish would be LESS fixation, on public on all fronts! If only they would allow it!

In fact our whole issue is their fixation, and stopping it. Sorry, but if you dumb down morality in anyway to young minds, you have what we do have now in most major cities. Liberal utopias. Crime is rampant and so is waiting around for the government to do what is up to the individual to do for himself. The following from Ben Stein puts it quite well:

"Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this Happen?" (regarding Katrina)

Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc., I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school, The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW." "

[HitmanLV]

Everything you wrote is true, but t doesn't have much to do directly with what I wrote. The part about God being saddened with us is a legitimate, and I think true, observation.

That's not to say that my mind darts, and fixates on, sinful sexual matters when the topic turns to sinful behavior.

If the folks fixated on sexual sin put 1/3rd the effort and attention to other sinful behavior - gossip, gluttony, selfishness, etc, I think they could be effective. For too many folks, sin becomes a predominantly sexual matter. Clearly, sin isn't predominantly a sexual matter: any adult who seriously limits it that was seriously limits their effectiveness.