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OK, so after being rather disturbed at my own prejudice last night as I searched around for websites that didn't have the word "Christian" in them, I ended up ordering from one of the Christian sites (christianbooks.com). Although I must admit that first I puttered about a wee bit; nothing major, just looked them up on Wikipedia and Google, and read their "A word on our product selection". Found nothing alarming, and ordered.
Got my confirmation e-mail that my order had been placed this morning. Along with a handy dandy link to Focus on the Family and a suggestion to buy the complete line of works by James Dobson. Went back to the site and did a few searches on their website for books on homosexuality, evolution, abortion, and contraception, and yeah, not ordering from there again. I did find one book on being Christian and gay - well, actually, several, but most were all about how you can use Christianity to free yourself from your sinful gayness - and one book about how you can be Christian and still believe in evolution. The rest were all anti-gay and anti-evolution. Abortion had two pro-choice books, and about 1/4 of the books were OK with contraception.
So now I'm ticked off at myself for two reasons. First: I should not have been dismissing any site just on the basis of a name. That goes against everything I try to teach my kids about tolerance and fairness and respect for diversity. If I can try to keep an open mind towards Al Jazeera English and Fox News, I can bloody well do the same for Christian book sites.
Second: if I'm going to try to soothe my suspicions, half-assed is not the way to go.
Damn.
Got my confirmation e-mail that my order had been placed this morning. Along with a handy dandy link to Focus on the Family and a suggestion to buy the complete line of works by James Dobson. Went back to the site and did a few searches on their website for books on homosexuality, evolution, abortion, and contraception, and yeah, not ordering from there again. I did find one book on being Christian and gay - well, actually, several, but most were all about how you can use Christianity to free yourself from your sinful gayness - and one book about how you can be Christian and still believe in evolution. The rest were all anti-gay and anti-evolution. Abortion had two pro-choice books, and about 1/4 of the books were OK with contraception.
So now I'm ticked off at myself for two reasons. First: I should not have been dismissing any site just on the basis of a name. That goes against everything I try to teach my kids about tolerance and fairness and respect for diversity. If I can try to keep an open mind towards Al Jazeera English and Fox News, I can bloody well do the same for Christian book sites.
Second: if I'm going to try to soothe my suspicions, half-assed is not the way to go.
Damn.
