Christian Judgment of Teen Moms is a Hug Wrapped in Rejection
Teen pregnancy rates in the United States while still very high compared to other industrialized nations is currently at the lowest rate since the data have been compiled for over 70 years. This small miracle is due in large part to the efforts of Christian right to life groups and a concerted effort of deriding the practice of teen pregnancy with limited aid, recognition of achievement and exclusion from many church functions. Some view these efforts as hypocritical and un-Christ like. These views are simultaneously correct and wrong.
A popular cable channel produces a show “Teenage Mother” that illustrates the day to day legal, social and financial issues of early baby making. Below is a preview of that show and the Christian principled seminar available in many Churches and communities that provides much needed human sexuality education not taught in schools. As part of the program, applicants are culled and evaluated before attendance is allowed. This sets the stage for the exclusion or shunning that takes place later.
Shun is American for Win
Shunning, or ‘natural behavioral selection’, is a practice borrowed from Darwin’s natural selection theory. While one cannot say Darwin without also saying win, some have rejected the idea of using shunning and try to include what they like to see as a more ‘Christian’ approach of aid. Unfortunately this liberal thinking is flawed. Outreach and aid only serve to fuel the issue and does nothing to serve the teen mom or the child.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of pro-abortion Planned Parenthood, is quoted in her 1922 tome in a chapter titled “The Cruelty of Charity” as laying down the law for the breeding impoverished. She recommends eliminating aid and eschewing the teen mom from communities and churches.
The practice of giving aid “encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others, which brings with it … a dead weight of human waste.”
Application of the Golden Rule is problematic for the Christian community. Torn between what is best for the individual and the group, decisions must be made. When wisdom is thrown asunder and a child’s life is at stake, the dichotomy of the meaning of ‘good’ becomes clouded. By giving aid and removing social scorn are we hurting the spiritual growth and maturity of those we wish to help?
When a young woman ignores the warnings and wisdom of her elders, she becomes a willing target of judgment. This presents not only legal, financial and educational issues for the young mother, it also brings controversy and judgment to churches and communities. To support the scriptural sanctity of life must the community shun, deny financial aid or publicly scorn the mother and child resulting from loose moral character in order to fulfill scriptural teaching? Some see this disparagement as a positive.
Some Mother groups, like the 3,000 member Facebook group “Moms Who Drink and Swear” say “YES!” to judgment and scorn. The group has widely held that those that do not promote their value systems will be banned from the group, with one administrator proclaiming that deleting the “negative” only serves to embrace the message of love, faith and friendship of the group. This is a tact learned by the group’s many teen moms and carried out successfully in the promotion of acceptance and trust.
Judgment is a tool for change. Suspicion breeds confidence and trust within a community. We see this in any American airport. The safety of all is promoted with suspicion and a pat down or full orifice search. While it isn’t really feasible to do this in every community, banning and shunning provide low tech solutions.
A shun is a hug wrapped in rejection. Blind approval and acceptance is fool hardy and brash and has no scriptural basis. To accept others means one must accept and open oneself up to change and we really can’t have that. Change and acceptance is something for others to undertake, not for Christians to carry as a moral burden.
http://www.thinkchristian.net/index.php/2011/04/05/should-there-be-more-teen-moms-in-your-church/
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3:23 pm
BB, yet again your holy knowledge blesses us with more wisdom!
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3:33 pm
So true about Judgment being a tool for change Blanche. Those are powerful words.
If only teenage girls could keep their legs closed for a while, the world would me a much better place.
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5:52 pm
If only teenage boys could keep the snake in the cage for a while, the world would be a much better place.
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5:56 pm
What snake? Is this like your octopus fetish?
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3:43 pm
Thank you BB for exposing the sinners at Mothers who drink and swear. I know first hand they are nothing but a bunch of drunk housewives. Their children are always dirty and unfed. The house their husbands work so hard to provide, is always messy. All the while, these women spend their time drinking while using the computer to spread hate.
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3:58 pm
Suck a black cock.all of you.tyson we i know you have 3 black dildos in your clothsrt.august just keep getting fucjed by your wife and BB (Big Bitch) go have your husband suck your dick.
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4:05 pm
I think I got off easy.
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12:25 am
I feel slighted.
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12:27 am
Bruce,
You are a blessing to us all, Bruce.
BB
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4:30 pm
Not as easy as those teenage girls
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4:44 pm
I am a member of the Moms Who Drink and Swear and I am thrilled of the work Nicole has done. She has a ministry of that surpasses the Vatican in scope.
I read one proud Mom’s account of her child asking for a treat by saying “Give a bitch some ice cream!” Isn’t that precious and wonderful?
Yes, Nicole is to be lauded as the gracious humanitarian she truly is for deleting the riff raff. Although I hear that Sister Susan was deleted. This is puzzling, given Susan’s natural ease with others and equally judgmental regard. Perhaps it is just jealousy and territorial impulses that resulted in this harsh decision.
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4:49 pm
LETS GET DRUNK AND HAVE ICE CREAM WHILE GETTING OUR DICKS SUCKED!!!!
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11:02 pm
That video proves how dangerous and awkard hippy dancing is.
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11:05 pm
the “virgin” mary was NOT a virgin.
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11:23 pm
You are just ate up with this Atheism. My goodness. Faith in Youtube is just what everyone needs to have.
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1:33 pm
Mary was a hermaphrodite and impregnated herself by accident in her sleep.
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1:13 pm
I realize I sound like a broken record, but these girls wouldn’t have gotten pregnant in the first place if their parents had been paying attention. If you keep a close eye on your kids, monitor their internet and limits their spend with the opposite sex, you’re on the right track. Involvement in sports and church life are also great tricks to prevent sexual liasons among teens. They use up all their passion on the field and in the pews that they don’t have the energy to procreate on their own. Nothing like the love of God to set you on the right path!
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1:34 pm
I think you have an excellent point, Stephenson. Certainly prevention is much more preferred over cure.
We cannot ignore the repeat offenders and their ability to detract others from the moral message. At some point, rejection and shunning become loving options. As a church I think making this a a doctrine may be disagreeable, but certainly individuals see the avoidance of such bad apples as a powerful message to other members of the group to straighten up and get in line.
Kind regards,
BB
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3:14 pm
If I may say so, there is nothing wrong with a teen popping out a baby every couple of years AS LONG AS SHE IS MARRIED TO THE FATHER!
Otherwise the trollop ought to be stoned
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