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kweerwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-05 10:45 AM
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Christian school expels girl for having gay parents
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.

http://www.nyblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=2606
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-05 10:59 AM
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1. Why would lesbians even go near anything xian?
Let alone put their kid in a xian school? Did they expect that somehow this particular batch of intolerant god-freaks would be different?
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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 11:51 PM
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8. Maybe they live in a small town and the public school is bad.
Maybe they're members of this community and have lived in this town all their lives before their community turned on them. Who knows?
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-05 11:04 AM
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2. She'll not do that again!
That'll show her. (Yeah, sarcasm)
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Liberaler Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-05 11:05 AM
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3. Religion - another word for
discrimination.

But what can one expect from people believing in fairytales?
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:05 PM
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11. How tolerant you are.
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kweerwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:14 PM
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12. We should never become so tolerant ...
... that we tolerate intolerance of any sort - even when it cloaks itself in the guise of religion.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:15 PM
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13. or atheism
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kweerwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:20 PM
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14. When it comes to atheism ...
... non-believers have to own up to their own beliefs. But when intolerance exists in a religion, believers accept no responsibility for their own bigotry and excuse it by claiming they are only acting on God's (or Allah's, or (insert your favorite diety here) words.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:26 PM
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15. Not all religious people are intollerant.
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kweerwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:28 PM
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16. Of course not ...
but those who fail to speak out when they see intolerance being spewed from pulpits are as culpable as the worst religious bigots.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:30 PM
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17. Agreed. I'm reacting to my beliefs being described as "fairy tales"
I don't appreciate that.
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kweerwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:39 PM
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18. Ah ... I see what you mean.
An understandable reaction ... and one I didn't pick up on since I was focused on the first part of the message you were responding to.

LOL ... I thought you sounded way too polite to be a trolling Freeper. Best wishes to you. :hi:
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:43 PM
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19. Thanks. It's hard being a Liberal Christian.
Thanks for the well wishes and my best to you. :thumbsup:
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-05 11:24 PM
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4. And they get fed aid for vouchers from taxpayers?
That maddrassa shoud have their fed fundng striped.

Viscious hateful extremist pigs.
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pro_blue_guy Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 12:17 AM
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5. ...
But why make the child suffer (losing friends, transferring to a new school)? It's not her fault that she comes from a loving household in which both parents happen to be of the same gender. That does not matter. Love matters. Doesn't it say in the Bible "Love thy neighbor" and about treating others with the same respect you'd want to be treated as?

Christianity is becoming a big turn-off for me lately.
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 01:22 PM
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6. it's not Christianity that should be the turn off
it should be some "Christians"

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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 11:38 PM
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7. So -called Christians who never speak Christ's truths. n/t
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 12:43 AM
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9. Gays and their children deserve a place in society. Hate doesn't.
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Larissa238 Donating Member (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 02:50 PM
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10. She researched the school
Before she sent her daughter there. She also has another child, 19, who spent years there. It wasnt until the daughter spoke up about homosexuality- then they kicked her out. They took her out of cheerleading practice in the middle of it.

There was nothing in the rulebooks about it, and the only place that it was written down was in the trustee's handbook- which they refused to let her see.

The mothers are planning on suing the school as soon as they can get a lawyer.
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