Parenting

The thing I want to focus on for this blog post is us discussing in class the Supreme Court Case that is going on in regards of allowing same-sex marriage in the states. This is critical in the aspect of parents and the right type of parenting because same-sex couples can not provide that necessity to children.
This link below goes to a video of a 11-year old girl expressing her opinino about same-sex marriage. This is her testimony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhGDmdG4dk

It is so true though. Correct parenting, especially in the Lord's eyes, is between a man and a woman. A father and a mother. I think that people have their agency and if they have the temptation of same-sex attraction, that is something they need to work out. Although, classifying marriage between the same-sex is not in accordance with God and His plan. People are wanting the law to fit their lives, when the law allows people to stay in check.
Intelligence and teaching results in active parenting and active parenting is effective parenting.
Brother Williams expressed to us:

The purpose of parenting is to protect and prepare our children to survive and thrive in the world they live in.

A good way to help parent is to keep in mind the Ballast Qualities. We discussed these briefly in class and I think they are worth mentioning on here:

1) Responsibility... this leads to choices and consequences and these should always be age appropriate and situation-based.

2) Cooperation

3) Respect

4) Courage (isn't a lack of fear)

Effective parenting is critical in today's society especially because of the confusion going on. Children truly benefit having a mother and father. It is a disrespect to the child if there are two same-sex parents because they are missing out on learning the true roles of parents and their view on the family is skewed.