But Aunt Kelly, what will this mother do about the condoms, and your nieces unacceptable behaviors just because this one faith-based program won't take her because of your interfering actions?
What would you suggest "guest" ?
Why is it so horrible that a 15 year old has condoms? So horrible she must be expelled from her family? Wouldn't it be worse if she didn't have them - but needed them? Apparently, she has decided sex will be a part of her life prior to marriage. Maybe this isn't the best choice. Maybe it isn't in keeping with God's plan for her life. But we all have to make our own choices. Isn't that a major principal of the Judaic-Christian faith? Free will?
And aren't believers instructed to provoke not their children to wrath? [Ephesians 6 vs 4] And aren't we also instructed to be patient, gentle teachers of the word? [second Timothy 2 vs 23-26] Do you think abandoning a child to the care, or abuse, of strangers, a proper Christian parents response to finding a 15 year old with condoms?
Do you think it wise to send a young girl into the care of a strange man living in an isolated situation? Do you really believe she would be safer from sexual exploitation in such a situation? You think this b/c he says he is a Christian? You think he is free of the temptations of the flesh? You think it impossible he would succumb to such temptation? And how do you think it might effect a young girl to be abandoned by her "Christian" parents, into the hands of a "Christian" man, who then exploits her for his own wicked pleasure?
Or, if he does resist the temptation of having young and vulnerable girls at his disposal; would he take his frustrations out on them in other ways? Do you not think it possible these girls would be assaulted in other ways? It is in fact all to likely. And what do you think this might do to a young girls trust in God and family?
Do you not think a more Christian response on the part of her parents would be prayer for their daughter? Do they not trust God to be faithful and hear a mother's prayer? Do they not feel that they as parents have a responsibility to this child, even when she is less than perfect? Are they so very perfect? Where they perfectly obedient and mature in their faith at 15?
Ask yourself, did Christ fashion a whip and lash out at the woman at the well? No, He didn't. He spoke honestly, but kindly with her; and told her He was the Messiah her people were waiting for (before He told anyone else, I might add) despite her fornications.
Did He beat and condemn the woman caught in adultery, that the crowd threw down in the dust at His feet? No, He didn't. Instead, He seems to have rebuked the crowd; for what ever He wrote in the sand, caused them to fall silent and scatter. I have always felt it was a list of names - names perhaps, of those the men in the crowd had "known". The woman He forgave on the spot, telling her to go and sin no more. And I expect she did just that - because of the love and compassion she had shown her. Had he beat her and cursed her as a whore, I've little doubt that's just what she would have remained.
Now, ask yourself "guest", Who did He lash out at? Who did He soundly rebuke and condemn? I'll tell you: Teachers of "religion". The Proud Hypocrites; those who stood piously praying on street corners to be seen by the crowds as righteous and holy, while they plotted to rob widows and orphans. Those who would stone a poor woman to death for fornication; all the while perhaps, knowing how often they themselves had "known" her, or another like her.
Maybe this girls parents should spend some time in prayer and fasting - and think on these things.
