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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White women under 40 are the biggest problem this country faces right now. Self destructive victims of some kind of self hatred mind virus. I have told several young men to stay away from white women.
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
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There is no “LGBTQ community”. It’s a phrase that insane leftists use to express their love and admiration for insanity and perversion.
My bet is the school was already about to go belly up and they did this as a publicity stunt, knowing the response, so the administrators could find new jobs in some far left institution.
They were placed on a pedestal by their parents and they have grown up believing they deserve things because they are female. MGTOW is a thing because of these very women.
What could be more degrading to God’s good creation than a man depositing his seed into another man’s orifice?
With respect, not sure being as graphic as your post serves to further the discussion.
Abomination captures the essence of the act quite well.
Good for them.
“…and believe in their holiness. …”
I think I’ve spotted the problem.
This goes far beyond being tone deaf.
What I have observed is that they hate themselves for being white. It fills them with rage and jealousy. They so desperately want to be anything but white. So they take every chance they can to denigrate traditional Western Christian society.
Wokies have a tendency to infiltrate before they create havoc. I have seen this cycle over and over. Some wokie gets a job at a company and unilaterally makes decisions to policy which inturn makes the company look like it is ran by morons. USAA had this problem a few times but corrected course. Those who do not correct course will face their demise for backing the 1% and forgetting the 99% is their bread and butter.
Not everything operates at the individual level. For instance, dogs which have one gene for undescended testicles are more fertile than dogs that are aren’t. People who have one gene for Sickle Cell Anemia are resistant to malaria. Natural characteristics can have more than one effect and one can be bad for the individual but good for the population.
There is no evidence that homosexual behavior has anything but deleterious effects. Yet if some believe if it occurs because of natural impulses, it must be good.
Those are physical traits which, as you said, had in some sense a natural positive impact on sustaining life. Homosexuality presents no such benefit.
They lost their blessings from G-d the moment they endorsed the anti-humanity agenda.
“intentional self destruction brought on by infiltrators from the left”
The only solution when the zombies take over is to let the creature die and start again...
It is what it is—no need to worry about “who won”—just fix the problem.
ABC news no longer allows comments. I wonder why?
I think fixing the problem in this case would be cleaning house of all the management, putting in a new set of administrators and doing a quick fund raising effort. Simply shutting down is a big win for the left.
Good.
A boycott that worked, and everyone can see it.
You want my money for something, then don’t do anything asinine. And, I get to decide what is asinine. So, Pi** off. Hope y’all enjoy the unemployment line.
Now, who is going to re-open the same school along previous lines with a codicil that prohibits such crappola?
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