Is it christian opposition or generation gap? I remember an elderly woman in my church who critized me for nursing my son beyond a year. She asked me if I knew that little boys got erections when they nursed. I am afraid I was rather impolite in my responce: They do when they have to urinate too, what does that have to do with anything? I later learned that although she was raised on a farm when she married and discovered that she was pregnant she didn't even know how she got that way. When she asked her doctor how the baby would get out he told her not to worry he'd take care of it. Needless to say perhaps these christian letter writers need an education. Is it indecent? I think that *western* society (not christianity) has made exposure of the breast indecent. Take all the girly mags for example. My husband traveled extensively as a military brat and tells me that he saw women nursing in every country he visited except the good ol USA and not shyly as we do here. Is it immoral? From all the references to nursing in the bible, it seems to me it is immoral not to nurse your child where ever and whenever. To deny a hungry child because of some law is unthinkable. ******************** I seem to recall a case (Dike case in Illinois?) that went to the supreme court. I believe they said an infant has a constitutionally protected right to breastfeed. Any lawyers out there? Maybe these state laws can get a boost from that case. Seems ludricious to me that we need to pass laws that allow BF in public in the first place.