I remember going to a friend's birthday party when we were just about to be teenagers. This party would feature music, and a guest list that included boys AND girls. My friend's parents and a few other adults would be there, so everything was above board. During the course of the night, a filthy song came on and I turned and looked at the adults. Each of them looked from one to another, there was some eye-rolling and wagging of heads, and just like that they resumed their conversation as though nothing had happened, and the song played on. I remember thinking that if my parents had been there, the party would have been over, and justice would have been meted out, if you know what I mean. You see, my parents raised us in a home where there was a boundary between right and wrong. My sister, brother and I did not run the house. The sin that Jesus sacrificed Himself to save us from was not welcome in our home. And no, Daddy and Mama didn't let it in after we had gone to bed either.
The books of Ezra and Nehemiah both record the return of the exiles to Jerusalem from the Babylonian/Medo-Persian captivity, and their rebuilding of the temple and the city walls. Both accounts record the attempts of what Ezra 4:1 calls "enemies" to stop the rebuilding. In Ezra 4:2, the enemies of God's people tried to sabotage the work by pretending to want to help with the building. Those who peddle evil and destruction around us will also pretend to want to help us with the building of our homes. They will accuse us of denying our kids real-life experience and of intolerance. And, by "real-life experience" they mean experiences that are routinely cited in suicide notes, and lead to venereal disease and/or psychiatric disorders. And, by "intolerance" they mean parenting. But hey, who am I to tell you whether or not to take advice from people who have never even heard of a healthy relationship, need horse-tranquilizers to sleep, think there are good things going on in Europe, and even went there to "find themselves."
Gentlemen, our response to those who would enslave our children should follow the example of the words of Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers' households of Israel, recorded in Ezra 4:3: "You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build to the Lord God".