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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would people feel if the OP and her husband were very anti-gun and the MIL signed the kids up for a riflery camp?
  
Regardless of whether the kids should be exposed to different and/or their grandparents religions, it is the parents' decision when and how.  The parents are united in what they want for their family.

I'm sure it is sad for the MIL, I would be sad if my children broke with any of the major values that are important to me; but as many people say regarding many other issues on this board, it is the parents that get to decide.  I think it's interesting so many posters think it's wrong for the parents to want to maintain the final say on religion (and exposure to other religions) since most people would agree these are some of the most basic and fundamental decisions parents make for their young children.  
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If OP married a life member of the  N.R.A. whose parents were life members of the  N.R.A. and second amendment absolutists, she shouldn't be upset or surprised if they signed the kid up for riflery camp.[/quote]

No, the OP married a man who was raised in an NRA household or potentially was an NRA member as a child and but has actively decided, in conjunction with the OP, that their children will not be NRA members.  They have every right to be upset if the grandparents signed the kids up for a riflery camp.  Surprised, maybe not, based on past behavior, but upset, yes.

I was raised in a very liberal anti-gun household.  My husband was raised very conservative/pro-gun family and he served in the U.S. military so he has spent a lot of time around guns.  However, both of us agree strongly that we want our children to be anti-gun (for lack of a better term) to the point where, when our kids went to a camp with riflery we made sure the camp assigned them another activity.  My husband does want them exposed to guns and gun safety but he wants us to make the decision how and when that happens.  If his family who frequently watches our kids  and knows how we feel, took them shooting or signed them up for something gun related, that would probably be the last time they were allowed to be alone with our kids.

Not wanting the kids to go to VBS is not the same as never exposing the kids to Christianity, it's exercising the parental prerogative to decide what religious events young children are going to attend.  
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