I saw a posting yesterday by a blogging mama friend of mine from Utah. She was explaining that she caught her little daughter laying a big smackaroo kiss on some little boy in her class. Her response when she saw it was to tell her daughter that wasn’t appropriate and that she was not suppose to kiss a boy until her wedding day. She added an LOL after the statement but I was pretty sure, due to her Mormon beliefs, that she was being serious.
Being the demure, non-confrontational guy I am, I wrote in the thread under her story saying “Not kissing until married? You know that is setting up a really guilty girl in the future. Do you think it is realistic and do you think it is helpful to her?” What followed was a pretty lengthy discussion about it, with most chiming in that they thought it was completely realistic and good to have that as a goal. Most respondents were fellow Mormons along with the blogger.
I was not of that opinion. It got a bit heated, nothing angry or mean, just some telling me to raise my kids how I want and she can raise her kids how she wants. It was all cool. But it got me thinking, what is in your scripture that you completely understand and it bothers you? Does it bother you because you disagree with it? Because you do agree with it but don’t want to follow it? Or something else? Tell me about it, ok?
2018 Post script – My stepdaughter decided to wait until she was married to kiss her fiancé. We didn’t argue about it with her.
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