LJ Idol Week 2, in which common sense is thrown back for the little ones.

[porn_this_way]

I promised myself I was gonna wait until at least Week 4 before I posted any bitchy, belligerent rants that might alienate half the people reading me, but one of my New Year's resolutions was to procrastinate less, so hey, now's as good a time as any! (Yes, that was totally rationalization. Thanks for noticing :P

Comments

[java_fiend]

Oh yes, the tireless crusaders who want to do away with anything and everything *they* deem offensive (though many of them look at the porn in the privacy of their own dwellings) and use the children as human shields. All of these idiots who seek to ban book, ban porn, ban Barbie... how about a little personal f'ing accountability? Maybe? How about raising your own children and keep your snout out of other people's lives and business???? But nope... Jesus sat atop the mountain and said "the pr0n is bad... ban it." Oh wait, he didn't? Then F these people and their idiotic agendas... they can take those nifty little tin morallity police badges and stuff them straight up their poopers. Though some of them would undoubtedly enjoy the experience.

Ahem.

Great rant, missy. I'm on board with you. Totally on board.

ETA: You do the Klingon High Council proud. :-)

[mari4212]

Jesus said so little about sex at any point that I honestly start wondering if these people have ever read the Bible all the way through.

When I have kids, it'll fall to me to set the rules and expectations for them. But my end goal is to have functional adults at the end of the process, and that comes from letting them learn to make choices and deal with consequences. Pretending the world doesn't exist, and that everyone must think the way I do doesn't help my theoretical kids any.

[java_fiend]

Jesus said so very little about most of the things these people get off ranting about, I'm inclined to believe they've never actually read the Bible. A lot of folks just rely on the interpretations somebody with an agenda spoonfeeds them, methinks.

I think that your plan for your theoretical children is a solid one. More people should do that. You can't protect them from everything but you can prepare them!

[mari4212]

And they spend so little time ranting about the things that Jesus/the prophets spent the most time talking about. Large chunks of the Bible are repeated orders to take care of the poor, the sick, the widowed, the children, and the alien in our midst. For some reason, this never seems to be what the ranting people focus on.

Especially since, if we're actually going to think of the children and what they need, we'd be providing a lot of the things that these groups seem most focused on taking away. Like, say, adequate schooling and teacher support, or food assistance programs and health care.

[java_fiend]

That and they flit between the Old and New Testaments to justify some of their ranting but the moment you counter it by citing Old Testament like them, they tell you that doesn't count. It was before they got "The Word"... yeah, my co-worker threw that one me once. lol... So, we can't actually stone our neighbor to death for working on Sundays? or sell our daughters for a pig and a goat?

You are very right in what we *should* be focusing on rather than who's doing what in their bedroom and with who they're doing it with. It's ridiculous and hypocritical to the extreme.

[porn_this_way]

How about raising your own children and keep your snout out of other people's lives and business????

You have such a sweet, unassuming, soft-spoken way of communicating, and it warms my heart. Such a soft, delicate light you are in this world! (LMAO, your comment made me laugh so damn hard. Qapla'!)