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Do you then feel that children should be prevented from spending time with someone who is gay? What about someone in a relationship that involves premarital sex? Someone that has a problem with gossip?

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Hope, my son has one gay teacher and I don't mind. Some of the people who are involved in our life live promiscuous lives and I don't try to shelter my children from them. I believe that children must and should NOT be sheltered from the world we live in -- this is reality.

My struggle ISN'T with any particular individuals. God can work on each person's heart...it's not our place to tell another what particular area they need to work on. Here's my struggle, the media (which effects young people BIG TIME) pretty much is trying to give off the message that everything and anything is acceptable.

The issue of homosexuality was originally the issue that was brought up but I think that an even bigger issue is how "normal" a person is if they sleep with a person on the first date and how the characters are viewed as "weird" if they are a virgin.

The newest thing that is coming out and trying to be pushed as acceptable, besides gay people "coming out of the closet," is threesome and foursomes. WHERE WILL THIS END? I suppose next they'll be endorsing doing it with animals if that's how you feel driven.

My passion is NOT to condemn a particular person nor to cast a stone at any ones struggles. My sadness is that I can't take my kids to a movie or rent very many movies without at least the suggestion of sleeping out of wedlock.

To answer your question, I think that kids will be exposed to all sorts of issues in their life thus addressing these issues as they arise is important for a healthy child.

Thanks for asking,
trosie