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To: Grainne who wrote (14265)	4/19/1998 2:33:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 39621

I pushed a button there with you, I see. Didn't mean to upset you there. I'm happy to read "It will surprise you immensely, I am sure, to discover that I was one of the mothers who insisted on staying home with my baby, and had arguments about it every Saturday at the park, the day the working mommies came with their babies as well." No, it doesn't surprise me. I do think that for the most part, you have a lot of common sense, and your intentions are good, and you believe it is important to give your child early and firm guidelines and boundaries. I don't believe that you are an evil person. I think you are on a misguided and mis-directed crusade though, and I really wish you could get to know some actual living and breathing conservative Christians. Lots of us are actually real down-to-earth nice people, and polite as all get out, and sometimes naive even. The word "gays" only very rarely enters our vocabulary. I'm afraid the media paints us as rabidly obsessed individuals, fairly frothing at the mouth to search out and denounce homosexuals. That description makes me laugh, it's so far from reality. But don't get me wrong though, Christine, I know Christian parents that really failed to take a an active role in raising their kids, and it had nothing to do with pop culture or even the Mother working, because some Mothers stay home and STILL don't raise their kids. But scrubbing laundry against rocks, Come on now Christine, that was just part of the house duties, and the kids were around and getting attention, if they weren't at school. The guy got the clothes dusty in the fields, and the Mother cooked a hot and delicious lunch for her hard-working homesteading hubbie, and then the Mother and Wife scrubbed some clothes on rocks, while the younger children played on the homestead. My own grandmother was such a stalwart prairie pioneer woman on a N. Dakota wheat farm, and my Mother was one of the daughters raised by that homestead prairie Mother. But you are right in that "Historically, women have worked somewhere". And worked darn hard.