09-23-2005, 09:40 PM
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Now, this just pisses me off
People who twist their "freedom of religion" to freedom of hate.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...5092300402.html
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School Expels Girl for Having Gay Parents
The Associated Press
Friday, September 23, 2005; 7:05 AM
ONTARIO, Calif. -- A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are lesbians, the school's superintendent said in a letter.
Shay Clark was expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.
"Your family does not meet the policies of admission," Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, the girl's biological mother.
Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday's edition.
Stob could not be reached for comment by the newspaper. Shay and her parents said they won't fight the ruling.
School administrators learned of the parents' relationship this week after Shay was reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game, Tina Clark said.
Clark and her partner have been together 22 years and have two other daughters, ages 9 and 19.
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09-23-2005, 11:02 PM
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that's ienki .. with an i
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>> "School administrators learned of the parents' relationship this week after Shay was reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game, Tina Clark said."<<
wow.. I wonder what she said to the crowd during the football game? Wonder what the school did to "learn of" the relationship.
Sounds like she's being punished for something else? I tried to find more, but only found that she was a cheerleader there.
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09-23-2005, 11:28 PM
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Turn it up!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gekkogecko
People who twist their "freedom of religion" to freedom of hate.
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Certainly I would allow that a private Christian school has the right to set their own standards of behavior for the students & their families...
still, I feel a slow burn coming on whenever I find narrow-mindedness & bigotry in the name of religion...
thus the last line in my current signature...
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09-24-2005, 05:32 AM
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Just me.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by scotzoidman
Certainly I would allow that a private Christian school has the right to set their own standards of behavior for the students & their families...
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I don't know the church, school or denomination, but I'm not sure that the school would think of their rules as being rules of "hate." That's a pretty strong term.
I suspect, other schools sponsored by other faiths might also have rules based on their church's teachings and beliefs ... can't even imagine why they wouldn't, but, more than that, I guess I've always wondered why people go to places where they knew they are in conflict with the rules (especially private institutions) and even more so why they would subject their children to such a situation.
I always wondered why adults send kids into stores to buy liquor or whatever ... simply to test the rules. Seems like something of a disregard for the child's well being in order to promote the adult's point of view. I remember a case in Illinois (a lot of years ago) where a mother sent her child into an adult book store to try and get the clerk to sell to an under age minor. The adult book store owner had charges filed against the woman for "contributing to the deliquency of a minor" for putting her child up to it. Funny, both cases were dropped.
Oh ... by-the-way ... I don't know that the child was enrolled to "test" the powers that be. Could be they just thought the school provided a good education. But, they must have been aware of the rules, and, the fact they didn't fight the ruling says they weren't as upset as all that. In any case, I hope the child is able to get enrolled in a new school where her family's values are not the issue.
Last edited by dicksbro : 09-24-2005 at 05:42 AM.
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09-24-2005, 08:50 AM
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~a little bit naughty~
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dicksbro
I don't know the church, school or denomination, but I'm not sure that the school would think of their rules as being rules of "hate." That's a pretty strong term.
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I agree that hate is a very harsh word to use here. A private school has every right to set their own rules as they see fit. A Christian school has every right to follow their interpetation of the Bible. I certainly wouldn't put my child into a private school that went against my own personal beliefs nor would I expect that school to change their rules to suit me.
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09-24-2005, 10:05 AM
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I understand the point about "the rules being the rules." However, it also strikes me that the poor child is really the one suffering here...she's the one that will loose all of her friends and have to start over. And that makes me sad -- it's not her "fault" her parents broke the rules. And punishing the kid seems like a very un-Christian thing to me.
One other sentence in this article strikes me as amusing... "school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," -- ONE PARENT?!? Isn't that a bit selective in and of itself?
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09-24-2005, 10:06 AM
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LOL I thought that too. Leaves it open for a dad to watch his Mrs. with another Mrs.
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09-24-2005, 06:34 AM
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Indeed so!
As we have seen very recently, narrow-mindedness, bigotry and insensitivity can happen anywhere. It is something we should always be on our guard against.
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09-24-2005, 08:10 AM
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I worked for a church school for a long time, until we got a new pastor there and he made his own views those of the church. They were not mine and not ones I would abide by. I left. I don't want to be associated withthings that do not reflect my own views as well.
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