Taking issue with a couple of statements... Okay, I'm a Christian and believe whole-heartedly in virginity and waiting until marriage, HOWEVER, I wasn't always that way as I'm sure many of you weren't. In my teens, 20's and until about Feb of 1997 I was a hound-dog out to get all I could get. Being a young, fit, well-built military guy made it pretty easy. October 31st of 1993, I met a young woman and took her home for the weekend. To make a long story short, I got her pregnant. We lived together for about 2 1/2 years until I kicked her out. I filed for and won custody of my daughter. I still have custody and she's almost 15 now. I don't feel that there was anything "illegitimate" about her. I (and my wife of the past almost 9 years) have raised her and our other three children to be (as much as a teenager can be) responsible, polite, mature and Christian. Just because people aren't married doesn't necessarily make their children illegitimate or the parents illegitimate. It's how you handle the responsibility of raising that child that matters in the end. Yes, if looked at from a purely Christian point of view, we sinned in having sex before marriage, but then again all are born in sin. Our sin didn't make us impure, we were impure from birth. Doesn't justify our sin but that sin is as easily forgiven as lying or stealing. BTW, my wife and I DID do it right and wait until marriage.
Still say we oughta hang the rapist's, murderers and child molesters. That guy that stabbed the kid... just take him out back and hang him from a tall tree. Leave the body until it rots enough to fall. Give him a big nice headstone that says "he needed killin". We know he did it, we don't need to know the reason, we don't need a long drawn out trial, we don't need multiple appeals, we don't need the tax burden to pay for his imprisonment, rehabilitation, trials, lawyers, medical bills, college courses etc. What we need is to publicly punish him quickly and harshly and without remorse. One slow trip up the old oak steps and a quick trick down the hemp rope in front of about every national network would do the trick for him...
ngh