Comments | brightlotusmoon: can't fault them for trying...

brightlotusmoon

can't fault them for trying...

Dec 12, 2006 09:09

Last night around eight or so, we got a knock on the door. Two young children, with an older man, stood there holding fliers. The younger child, probably no more than eight, started reading haltingly from the flier, about a community meeting taking place on Thursday to talk about "how sex before marriage is wrong and what you can do to stop people ( Read more... )

opinions, kids, spreading messages

Comments 9

ncalrod December 12 2006, 14:32:38 UTC

" I feel it's like cowardice -- "

It is cowardly. Its also blatantly manipulative which irritates me almost as much as the message. Its pretty clear that the adult in question thought it would be harder to say no to a cute kid than to a self righteous holier than thou such as him self.

I think I fall on the same side of the fence as your friend. I really doubt I would have been as polite. Of course I'm often impolite to people I don't care for but that's just me.

greenwillow27 December 12 2006, 15:43:57 UTC

Depending on the age of the children, that borders on child sexual abuse-- exposing children to adult issues they can't understand and may be frightened by.

I had a similar incident happen with two little kids at my door and the cowardly mother in the car idling in my driveway. I wanted to chase after her and explain how that was child endangerment cuz if I had been some kind of a perv there's no way she could have prevented her kids from being snatched, but instead I ranted about it in lj. =op

brightlotusmoon December 12 2006, 16:20:03 UTC

Yeah, I got a very creeped-out feeling. The kids were younger than ten, both boys, and the man must have been around seventy. I wanted to call him to come back and watch the damn kids. It was late at night, in very cold weather (the kids were wearing faux-fur lined coats with hoods), and for gods' sakes, these kids were not only very young, but their English wasn't that great (this is a very Hispanic commmunity ( ... )

morningstar4 December 12 2006, 15:58:13 UTC

I was going to point out GW's recent experience, but she's already done that. ;) I think it's wrong to use children for that too. They're not old enough to have formed their own beliefs and opinions on serious topics like that, let alone to even know what sex is all about. It's a very cowardly thing to do. If you believe that strongly in something that you'll go door to door with it, then be a man (or woman) and stand up for those issues yourself--don't get your kids to do it for you.

brightlotusmoon December 12 2006, 16:22:33 UTC

Exactly. I didn't care about what they believed and wanted me to believe or assumed what believed), I cared that the guy was using the kids and hiding behind them to make his point. Gah. People like that make me less idealistic about humanity.

thiswaste December 12 2006, 16:04:21 UTC

silly gimmicks. I really hate them.

brightlotusmoon December 12 2006, 16:21:11 UTC

Especially when they involve innocent children. Fucking idiot people.

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Re: It can destroy a childs spiritual growth brightlotusmoon December 12 2006, 18:22:35 UTC

I wish I had been introduced to Jesus that way. It would have alleviated my feelings of bitterness toward Christianity later on...
One of my favorite books as a child was Judy Blume's "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." The young girl who had her own personal, non-religious relationship with the entity she called God was so touching. It was a good friendship.

The scary thing about last night was I don't think that man was the kids' parents. I had an intuition that he was a member of the church.