Background Check

Well, I started to feel a little better last night so I picked up a shift last night and one for tonight. I worked last night and was fine, but when I got home I started feeling crappy again. Hopefully, I'll feel better before work tonight. If I'm going to call in, apparently I need to do it by noon. But I really want to work so I think I'm just going to try to make it.

Yesterday, I had a meeting with the youth minister at our church because I've decided that I want to volunteer as a youth leader. It went really well. He talked to me about all the different events they have and about their weekly sunday night meetings. I took home the "background check" application and started filling it out after I got home from work last night. Questions were like this:
Have you ever been arrested of a criminal offense? Y or N
Have you ever or do you use illegal drugs? Y or N
yada yada... but then this question pops up
Are there any other circumstances involving your lifestyle, background or history that may call into question your ability to work with children, such as: living together as a married couple before marriage, being involved with or addicted to pornography, or being accused of inappropriate behavior with children?

Hold the phone! You mean to tell me that they're going to lump living with my fiance before marriage (even though we're not having sex) with porn addiction and child molesting?! I have to admit, I wanted to lie on that one. And if it wasn't for Neil being rational with me I probably would have. I marked yes...hoping to be able to explain so they wouldn't think I molested children or something. There is a portion after the questions to give you a chance to explain your answer if you answered yes to any of the questions. But I don't know if mine will be good enough.

To sum it up, I explained that Neil and I are living together, but we're getting married in three months and we're remaining sexually abstinent until that night. I explained that we came to that decision through growing together as a couple at our church. I also let them know that I would encourage young girls to wait until their wedding day to live with/have sex with their spouse. I made sure to mention that Christ has forgiven me... hopefully they will too. I would hate to think that this would keep me from serving in the youth group. I already told red robin last night that I can't work on Sunday nights anymore because I hadn't looked at the application yet.

I guess we'll see what happens. I was really looking forward to this. I understand that they want to have people their teens can look up to and apparently my sin is worse than anyone else's.