Posted on 03/02/2023 5:23:49 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
A conflict over what it means to be Christian is forcing a school in Kansas City, Missouri, to close.
Urban Christian Academy is a private, K-8 school with an enrollment of 100 that describes itself as providing "a tuition-free, high-quality, Christ-centered education for low-income students."
The school’s mission statement has always stressed inclusivity in general terms, noting that following Jesus "opens up doors and makes room at the table." But last year it added a paragraph to its website, which read in part, "We are an affirming school. We stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness. We celebrate the diversity of God's creation in all its varied and beautiful forms."
According to the school, that update prompted donors to stop contributing, many of them citing their interpretation of Christianity as the reason. Now, UCA has announced it will close at the end of the school year due to the loss of financial support.
Kalie Callaway-George, UCA’s executive director and co-founder, said this new language "is kind of what started the backlash from our donor base, which we anticipated. It was just that we anticipated a 50% loss in funding and made adjustments for that. We had an 80% loss in funding and that was too much to overcome."
The dramatic drop-off in donations came quickly. Soon after the new language appeared on the school’s website, eight churches withdrew their support. Although those institutions were responsible for just 2% of the school’s funding, church members were a donor base that gave much more.
"We lost our network" of donors, Callaway-George told ABC News. "In December of 2021, right before we publicly supported the LGBTQ community, we raised $333,985. One year later, after we had posted on our website and made a stance, [in] Dec we raised $14,809."
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And massive stupidity, "we anticipated a 50% loss in funding" and still did it.
You can’t drag Sodom into the City of Enoch. Both disappeared from the earth, but only the City of Enoch survived.
Another reason why math is racist....
We will risk losing 50% of our revenue to appease less than 7% of the population.
I don’t care how you add it up, multiply it out, divide and subtract it, the answer is still..... stupid.
And stupid should hurt.
“God’s creation in all its varied and beautiful forms.”
I see this among a lot of Christians. It’s a pagan idea that if it’s natural it must be good.
Of course there’s no real evidence that homosexual behavior is natural but even if there was it’s still not good.
For any donors wishing to support an alternate school in Kansas City, I would suggest St. Vincent de Paul Academy. The money would be put to morally good use.
There is no conflict; there is only God's Word and heresy, with this school choosing the side of heresy. For the sake of immortal souls, going out of business was the best thing that could happen to the school.
Operating within a natural law framework homosexuality is logically flawed. Nature would not seek to suicide a species through the inability to procreate.
Biblically or naturalistically, homosexuality is an utter abomination.
And what the heck was the expected upside? They wanted to sound cool?
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There desire to pervert G-d’s creation was the primary goal. Education of the children obviously ranked far down on the list.
I think this is happening all over. It’s intentional self destruction brought on by infiltrators from the left. We shouldn’t celebrate with “go woke, go broke!”. The mission was accomplished by the left. This Christian private school is no more. Who won? The left.
Just so I understand..
They KNEW that this would alienate a signifigant portion of their donors. But did it anyway.
But then.. Knowing how badly this hit them. And how serious their donors were about it.
Rather than saying we screwed up. We were wrong. They chose to go out of business instead?
“We stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness.”
If you say something like that with a straight face, you need to be bounced all the way back down to Sunday school, because you missed the point of Christianity entirely.
Sounds like people on the inside wanted the school to self-destruct.
Leftist white women are cancer. Always.
Interesting fact: every single "gay" had heterosexual parents. It's an obvious fact, yet ignored in today's woke world.
Not to worry. I’m sure they think the GIBLETS “community” will come to their rescue ... HA!
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