being one of the posters in the original thread referred to in the op, i was all ready to come in firing.
unfortunately, pathros has already come round to my point of view on this issue.
pfft… what is this? posters who use gd to allows their opinions to develop? i was ready for a debate, not a thinking poster!
as for your hijack, i don’t really have much to add. on the homosexuality issue, i do not think that a parent who lets their child watch a program promoting acceptance of homosexuals is bad. while i do vehemently disagree with the prospect of a parent preventing their child watching such a program, that would not automatically qualify them as being a bad parent, (however, in my eyes, the action is bad). a parent’s actions as a whole contribute to the quality of parenting they provide, and so one misguided action does not make a parent bad, just as one good action does not make a parent good. same for nudity, i guess.
There are ways to try to ‘clean up’ outside influences other than government intervention.
For example: At the grocery store where I regularly shop, at the checkout lanes they have magazinges for sale. The ones like ‘Elle’ and ‘Glamour’ inevitably have a headline screaming “Sex tips to drive your man wild!”
If I don’t want my 5 year old recently-learned-to-read-son to read these I could ask the manger to put them somewhere else.
If he refuse I could get together with other parents and write up an informal petition.
If that didn’t work I could boycot this store.
Even more extreme, I could picket the store and hold up signs saying ‘Keep our check out lines clean!’
All of these are within my rights and require no government help.
