sexual orientation issue

[Anymouse]

learning a lot about sex does not teach someone a lot about relationships...it just teaches a lot about sex. Not that sex knowledge is bad knowledge to have It's very useful.

Knowledge can be a bad thing in the wrong hands, though. My (first) wife and I were always careful that our son knew such things as the correct terms for parts of the anatomy. One would think this was good, but not in the Bible Belt.

At age six, his baby sitter turned my (ex-)wife in to Child Protective Services in Florida on charges of child abuse because in proper context, he used the term for the male appendage (he had injured it zipping his pants in the bathroom). She was one horrified So. Baptist.

It took nine months and a lawyer to pry our son loose from CPS, only then because our lawyer unearthed a nine-hour interrogation video of our son by the state of Florida, in which he was refused food, water, and the bathroom until he would make a statement against his mother. He would not. (Not bad for a six-year-old.) After the state conceded its interrogation was "excessive," they then refused to release him because I am a Wiccan.

The state finally released him from "protective care" when our lawyer turned up hospital records indicating one of the foster families he'd stayed with physically beat him. They'd hoped we would not sue over the physical assault by the foster family, incompetent interrogation, and first amendment violation. We didn't, primarily because we had exhausted our resources trying to pry our son out of the state's grip. We were more interested in trying to straighten out our son's upset world.