Genevieve C. West

I love the innocent romance of Jennie Bishop's "The Princess And The Kiss" where the princess saves her kiss for the man she will marry.  In the story, the princess turns down many suitors before a humble, kind farmer who has saved his kiss for his future wife pursues her, seeing that her purity "sparkled like diamonds."  But in the workbook that goes along with it, one of the recommended activities is for me to take a glass of pure, clean water and put dirt in it.  Then I'm to ask my daughter if she still wants to drink it.  I will have just taught my daughter that if she fails to maintain her purity, that she is dirty.  That no one will ever want her.  That she is unlovable.  That her worth is somehow tied to her lack of sexual experience.  Christ does NOT teach this.   The Christ I know stops the murder of a woman caught in adultery who is about to be stoned to death, forgives her sins, and simply tells her to "Go,