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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The problem is that the zombies have killed the host.
Management is the problem.
There is nobody decent left to fire them.
In most of these cases the woke zombies are the bosses—sociopaths rise to the top.
Made adjustments
Bad ones missed the clue on the first one.
They’re jealous alright, jealous of the Man. Stealing from the Man-Adam as it was in The Beginning.
“I can’t be Adam so I’ll be someone Above Adam. The Serpent makes me special”
“Kill, Steal and destroy” -John’s Gospel.
Do stupid things get stupid results
Beyond the asinine evil, and idiocy this school did as many FReepers pointed out; there is the lie that many non-Christians and pretend Christians like to espouse in the article.
“God is love” and just loves everyone, so it’s ok to partake in things, because God is love!
It’s such a banal and stupid argument, it floors me that any professing Christian can even say garbage like that.
That reminds me of the “love makes a family” crowd.
Such a slogan would justify sex with family pets, farm animals and children, not to mention polygamy.
Is that what they meant?
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