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[Aquila]

I have the feeling that most of us would be two squeemish to be loving Christians in the culture of ancient Rome. It's not for us to control the world. It's for us to live for God as individuals in a fallen world. This isn't something to fight, nor is it something we can successfully fight. The best way to deal with this is personally live our values and teach them to our children. If we feel this strongly about it, we should avoid this kind of programming as much as possible and raise our children according to our values.

As for "parenting". I know a gay engineer who is divorced and has custody of his kids. His wife is strung out on drugs. He is a very involved father. To see him with his kids is enlightening. Sometimes I feel he gives them far more time, attention, and even spiritual instruction (he's a devout Episcopal) than I do my kids. Frankly, his parenting skills challenge me. We've prayed together, read the Bible together, and I've even been on a short spiritual retreat with him for an afternoon (that's a story for another day lol, trust me). He's a good guy. He's not an abusive monster. Now, we can disagree with his personal life choices all day long, but as a person, I'd never say anything to hurt him. My Apostolic church didn't offer me a bit of help when my mother died. Jim paid for my out of town hotel expenses when mom died. When I thanked him and told him he didn't have to... he said, "Hey, that's what Christians do." While we can take issue with some things about him... in some ways he's more Christian than many of us.

I'd like to know... do we take such a serious position against parents who raise their kids in homes where the man and woman aren't married?