Reba, I'm not demonizing evalingcal Christians.... BUT it does seem like there's a subset of evalingcal christians who think that anything even remotely secular is teh evil.
Putting people into sets or subsets is stereotyping. "Anything even remotely secular" is a very general statement that explains nothing.
Like just a MENTION that there are families out there who are gay or lesbian, they're on the defensive yapping that their kids are being "corrupted" by the secular system.
Interesting choice of words. People "mention" there are homosexual families but Christians "yap". Slanted?
The textbooks don't go into details or anything. It's just a MENTION that there are men and women who are in not exactly 1950's realtionships.
Is that
exactly how it's presented in textbooks? What is the context? What exactly is a 1950's relationship?
It's like a textbook mentioning that there are interracial or interreligious couples Or divorced people (three types of relationships which quite a few people have interpreted the Bible as not supporting!) Why don't evalingcal Christians who send their kids to public schools get upset about interracial/interreligious or divorced couples being portrayed in textbooks/diversity things?
Without actually reading the text to which you refer, I can hardly comment on it.
Neither you nor I know what each evangelical Christian parent might "get upset about" in each public school situation. It would be pure speculation. If you want to discuss specific cases, that's different.
The Christians whom I know, and my pastors, are not against interracial marriages. The Bible, and therefor the preachers, are against couples being unequally yoked in marriage. That means, a born-again Christian shouldn't marry a non-Christian. The Bible, and Christians, hate divorce but don't hate divorced people. I have no idea how these things are being portrayed in the text books that you mention.
And yet, those are the very same people who think that Intelligent Design and other Christian things should be pushed in public schools.
There you go with prejudicial word choice again. If Christians want Creation included in the curriculum, you call that being "pushed." If secular people want homosexual life style included in a curriculum, you call that "mentioning."
As for the mom being "stuck" being the homeschool teacher, think about it. It reinforces traditional gender roles (a women's place is in the home A mom's life should be ALL about her kids and only her kids) AND it can add major stress to a mom's life. (being a teacher can be very stressful and exhausting. I know this from my friends who are teachers)
This may be hard for you to believe but there are moms who feel that motherhood is a blessing and privilege, and don't consider themselves being "stuck" in that roll. Many moms enjoy teaching their children at home, and don't consider it a drudgery.
Also, I don't know where you get the idea that "a women's place is in the home A mom's life should be ALL about her kids and only her kids." That's not the biblical standard.
You can't compare your teacher friends with moms. Teachers are in a totally different situation from home school moms. Classroom teachers have many children from various backgrounds with whom they must deal in a tight daily schedule with very little room for flexibility. They also deal with restrictive curricula, non-supportive administration, and interfering government regulations. That's the source of their stress, not the act of teaching by itself.
Moms are teaching their own children that they've known since birth. They can teach them what they believe and not worry about not being pc, or offending them. They don't have to answer to an adversarial chain of command. They have flexibility within their schedule.
As for the kids who were very sheltered....some examples I remember off the top of my head are a girl who was saving her first KISS until marriage (first KISS! Until MARRIAGE?!?!?)
What's wrong with that? Has the world twisted purity into something "weird"?
Kids whose parents punished them for saying "gee" or who weren't even allowed to listen to contemporary Christian rock music.
What kind of punishment?
Do you know that euphemisms such as "gee/geez" (Jesus), "gosh" (God), "darn" (damn), and "heck" (hell) are profanities? Why shouldn't parents correct their children for using profane language?
Why should Christian children listen to so-called contemporary "Christian" rock music? If it's rock music, it isn't Christian but of the world. The parents are right not to allow it.
