07-15-2010
Montana Parents Weigh In on Proposed Kindergarten Sex Ed.
A listener would like biblical references on pre-marital sex and Mark explains the trouble with acting out what society says is okay. A homosexual son called his parents trying to get them to support gay marriage. Mark comments on a continuing saga about uncomfortable sex because of weight. A single listener want to know she only finds married men attractive.
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Tags: dating, homosexual, sex education, weight
When Pastor Mark described the maturing process that marriage produces in a young bridegroom to build him into a man, several chat voices were protesting, “It didn’t work for MY ex-husband!” I support Pastor Mark, and here’s why. A badly behaving man is called “immature”, but that’s the wrong word (though nearly everybody uses it).
I teach kindergarteners on Sundays. They’re a long way from mature. Their behavior needs supervision and sometimes correction, but they all know it’s wrong to tell lies. They know it’s wrong to take what’s not theirs. They even understand it was wrong for Potiphar’s wife to be chasing after a boyfriend! Immature children can understand right and wrong and make moral choices.
A 33-year old husband who cusses at his wife, carouses late at night, neglects to provide for his family, he is not being immature. He is being immoral. He is sinning. Maturity has nothing to do with it, since he is acting in a way my 5-year-olds could discern as wrong. We call it “immature” because making better choices than these is a lesson he should have learned at age 3½, but it’s really a “do what’s right” issue.
Maturity and morality are simply different things.
I doubt that my comment will change the world’s usage of the word, but it might help someone understand what Pastor Mark is and isn’t saying in the way I do (assuming I got it right). Incidentally, I believe that the growing and maturing power of the marriage covenant works just as surely on young brides as well.
Thanks for the show. (smile)