This is my problem. I may or may not mind profanity on Tv, movies or such. Either way I have a choice. I can watch or turn off, I can go to the movie / play or I can save my money and go do something else. Whatever I decide it is my choice. I DO NOT need someone to make those decisions for me. I do not need someone else to impose their morality upon me.

I HATE this cover all excuse about what we are exposing our children to when it is used like this. It is panic making emotional blackmail, playing on humanities natural instinct to protect and nuture it's young whilst surrupticiously advancing the hidden agenda of the 'moralist' who are usually linked to some fundamentalist cause or firebrand religion.

I was brought up in a VERY strict religious household. We were not allowed a TV in the house. Church three times on a Sunday plus sunday school in a morning and afternoon (before proper church). This was from being a babe in arms until I was 17 when my Mum and Stepdad allowed me some freedom to decide for my self. Then during the week I was expected to attend various Bible classes, youth groups etcetera. Grace was always said before meals and the Bible was always read after homework and before bed.

Still by the time I was 12 I had an extensive 'alternative' vocabulary which would have had my Mum on her knees for a month had she ever heard me. Most of the other young folks I knew (mostly from church) were just as 'informed' as I was myself.

Kids are and will always be kids. Hide this stuff away and tell them it is bad, dangerous and not the done thing and they will go out and experiment and DELIGHT in doing so just so that they can rebel. I KNOW because I did it, and all my freinds were exactly of the same mind.

These days I moderate my language and my behaviour because I have come to learn that I and only I am responsible for my words and actions and am aware of the responsibilty I have to others. Most kids grow to be well rounded, decent members of society despite the flaws of an imperfect world.

We don't need the state (any state) protecting us from THEIR ideas of what is improper or acceptable. God gave us a brain and a mind to do that for ourselves.

Tony (rant over)