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(From a lengthy review of a children's Book called "It's Not the Stork!")

On page 48 of the book, it describes the different types of families: "Some families have one child. Some families have two, or three, or four more children. Some families have a mommy and a daddy. Some have a mommy. Some have a daddy. Some have two mommies. Some have two daddies. Some kids live with a parent or stepparent, or with an aunt, an uncle, a grandmother, or grandfather, or with a foster parent. Some kids live with one parent part of the time and with their other parent the rest of the time."

That page is the books flaw, a big one no doubt. A family with 2 mommies or 2 daddies is not a family according to God's Word and the design of God Almighty. I absolutely am not going to be teaching my children what God refers to as an abomination! The book is so great otherwise, what we did was just take a black marker and cross out that one statement "Some have two mommies. Some have two Daddies." It is not biblical or the will of God to teach such a thing to a child as if it is okay, regardless of it is becoming more accepted in the mainstream world today. So I write this just to help Christ-Centered parents be aware.

No doubt sometimes family situations (like step-families etc) are a result of sin and not having Christ at the center of our lives at the time these things occured, but a step-family, single-mom family and so on, does NOT mean that Christ is not now there at the center of that family. I know step-families, single-mom families, divorced parents, and so on that live Christ-Centered lives and so I find no error the statement on page 48 with regards to the various types of families. These are not signs of ongoing sinful lifestyle.

However, a family that is made up of same-sex parents is not a picture of a biblical family period! There is no such thing as living in sin biblically! If a person is living a homosexual existence they are living an existence condemned and seperated from God. A "family that has two mommies or two daddies", though some may consider it to be a "family", the bible does not consider or teach it to be so, and so parents that are trying to use this book as a tool to teach their children about the "healthy sexuality" and such, will want to beware of this page.

Children need not be taught that an sinful choice such as a same sex relationship, is a healthy form of a family just as God's design for a family which is ONLY one Mommy and one daddy. In no way does that mean homesexuality is worse than any other sin. BUT a "family" with homosexual parents is a one illustrates a lifestyle of ongoing sin, it is sin and it does separate us from God and a homosexual lifestyle can not be the way of life of a follower of Christ, and Christ-Centered parenting teaches that homosexuality is an abomination ... NOT that it's a hunky-dory family.

"Homosexual conduct is illegal in NC (even after Lawrence V Texas). We arrest 250 homosexuals each year in Mecklenburg alone for either a ‘crime against nature’ or ‘solicitation of a crime against nature’. Unlike prostitution (exchanging money), even suggesting homosexual sex is a criminal offense in NC. If we were all that ‘progressive’ would we be arresting 250 homosexuals a year? Setting up sting operations to de-infest areas where they congregate? Point is, if you want to delude yourself that homosexual conduct is ‘ok’ go ahead. The law, the police and the DA however have a different view." —North Carolina city commissioner Bill James, who was caught on tape remarking "Your son is a homo?" to a colleague during a domestic partnerships debate, in an email written to a Charlotte resident. If you thought he'd opt to apologize for these comments, he won't be:
"I think that if you’re someone who is homosexual and you believe that you are born that way and have every right to engage in that behavior, I think the offensive thing, I would surmise, is not the word ‘infest’ or ‘de-infest’ but the fact that the police are actually doing the sting operations," he tells Q Notes when asked to explain his comments. "We can parse words — what phrase should I have used? But the central question for most people is not what particular term got used but whether the action was occurring. Was I accurate in saying there are these sting operations going on and those sting operations — whatever term you want to use — target homosexual men? That is why the county took and spent significant amounts of money to rework the park to take out certain landscaping things to prevent, once the sting operations cleared them out, prevent them from re-congregating — or re-infesting if you use my original term. — When someone trots out Lawrence v. Texas, I trot out the arrest statistics. I say if Lawrence v. Texas is the law of the land, why are there all these arrests? And that ends the discussion usually."