Posted on 09/26/2005 10:31:48 PM PDT by Bonaparte
Daughter of lesbian couple expelled By Mason Stockstill, Staff Writer ONTARIO - A Chino couple plans to picket a Christian school in Ontario on Monday because officials expelled their daughter after learning her parents are lesbians. Tina Clark said the superintendent of Ontario Christian High School gave her a letter explaining that 14-year-old freshman Shay Clark was being kicked out because her parents' sexual orientation is "inconsistent with a positive Christian life style." "My sexual orientation should have nothing to do with her getting an education," Tina Clark said. "I'm the one that's gay. My daughter's not. Why should her civil rights be infringed?" Shay was crushed by what happened earlier this week, which she said came as a surprise. "I knew that I might have problems," Shay said. "But I never thought it would go that far." Principal Tim Hoekstra and Superintendent Len Stob did not return repeated calls Thursday and Friday seeking comment. Phone calls to several school trustees also were not returned. Clark and her partner, Mitzi Gray, have been together for 22 years. They didn't expect Shay would experience discrimination at the school because her older sister had attended Ontario Christian schools from sixth through ninth grade. Additionally, Shay said her friends knew she lived in a home with two mothers, and "it was never a problem." On Tuesday, however, that changed. Gray said when she went to an unrelated parent meeting that Clark was unable to attend, school administrators were confused by her different last name. The next day, both women were called in and asked point-blank if they were gay, Clark said. When they said they were, Shay was expelled. "These are the same people that patted me on the back the Friday before that and asked me how my week had gone," Clark said. The family's situation is not unusual, said Johnny Chagolla of the Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance, a gay-rights organization in San Bernardino. Often, he said, students at religious schools are more likely to face discrimination. "In cases like this, there's a concern," Chagolla said. "A lot of (religious school officials) say they're very open and affirming, and then you see this, and it contradicts what they're saying." A similar situation arose earlier this year at a Catholic school in Costa Mesa, when parents pressured administrators into barring gay parents after a gay couple enrolled their twin sons at the school. Ontario Christian is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church, a denomination that considers homosexuality a "condition of disordered sexuality," according to the Web site of the Christian Reformed Church of North America. The church considers the act of homosexual sex to be a sin, which "must be condemned as incompatible with obedience to the will of God as revealed in scripture." However, according to the group's Web site, the church should help gay Christians and "give them support toward healing and wholeness." As the family gathered outside the school for a news conference Friday, students and staff peered at the scene out of the windows. Receptionist Cory Overstreet said administrators would not be available to comment. According to the letter signed by Stob, school officials were not aware of Clark and Gray's relationship at the time Shay was admitted. But both women said that question was never asked, and that both of their names were included in all of the required paperwork. "Had we known they were against homosexuality, we would never have sought this school out," Gray said. "It wasn't like we announced it to the world, but it wasn't a secret, either. We've always been a family." Shay's educational future is unclear. At first, Clark had hoped there was a way Shay could return to Ontario Christian. But now, no one in the family backs that idea. The family is looking for another private school Shay can attend, but the admissions process is typically long, and she might not get in anywhere this year. Public school will probably be the answer for now, Clark said. After she gets to a new school, the family may consider legal action, Clark said. The expulsion was difficult for Shay, who said she is upset about being separated from her friends. As for the school's leadership, "They should be embarrassed," Shay said. - Mason Stockstill can be reached by e-mail mason.stockstill@dailybulletin.com , or by phone at (909) 483-9354
Women plan to protest outside Ontario Christian school
Nah, but it's always best to consult them when you discover you've been set up by homosexual dogs.
The Parable of the Running Father...I love it.
I disagree with your postmodernist view.
Seems to apply here then, doesn't it?
In this particular case, with this particular kid, it does.
My point, however, as both of us have stated, is that "It depends on the kid". It should not be an "automatic" based solely on the parents.
And they made it sound as if the school was skulking around: As the family gathered outside the school for a news conference Friday, students and staff peered at the scene out of the windows.
Fine-- then change the school's conditions of enrollment. Hello???
And it further points out that He associated with them to teach them, convert them, and turn them from their wicked ways.
Well, DJ, you know how we religious types love to peer out windows at scarlet letters we embroider on sinners...
Yup. The kid had given up his lifestyle to come to the Father and he was welcomed. Where in this article did these women do that?
Did the Father run to the Prodigal son while he was still in the pit, or was he on the road to see the Father and see if there was a place in the servants quarters. He didn't assume anything. Yes the Father ran to him (one of my favorite Benny Hester songs by the way) but the Father didn't run to him in the pit in this instance.
We have to leave the pit - anything else would cheapen every stripe that Christ bore to forgive us.
The school is not a political organization, nor does it appear to be an evangelical ministry it's as was previously posted an educational organization. They get to make the rules.
I'm at this point done, we can agree to disagree on the finer points, but I can't agree distort the Word of God.
LOL! I suspect I may be already!
Yup. While they're giving news conferences to trumpet their sin. ;)
John Edwards, is that YOU again? ROFL!
And with that, I bid you a pleasant tomorrow...uh...today. I gotta go to bed!
"I have as yet to discover an organization of adulterers, murderers and theives who formed political organizations and lobbies so that they can perform their sins openly and proudly, with full government sanction and even special benefits."
I DO, those organizations are called the Senate, the house of Representitives,the supreme court, you are forgeting all 50 states had laws against adultery, fornication, homosexuality.... and it was your parents senators that changed those laws.
For all your other paragraphs I am not arguing that. I agree, it is invading and breaking down the culture. I am not arguing against it. What I am saying is now that this story is out it has poisend the minds of non believers by showing Christians as hate mongerers. If the lesbian couple wanted to teach in the school then she would have to go. But this kid just wanted to go to school. It was handled in a manner not reflecting the love of Christ. That is what I am arguing nothing else.
Good night, pleasant dreams!
And what if the administration had just prayed about it and said, our goal is to reach these young girls "parents" for Christ so lets let her stay for that reason. You think we would be up this late right now?>
If they did consult with lawyers they have bad ones. I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on tv, however couldnt the arguement be made that A her sister went to the same school and had no invasion of homosexual agenda. B Does the administration ask all parents if they are married or about moral sin in their lives and then decide if their child should be kicked out? C. What about the parent that is committing incest with their child, do they ask that?
I think they are going to get dinged leagally because they pulled this girl out because of the parents behavior. Not because the child didnt sign or follow the morality code.
Many will say Lord Lord and I will say go away I do not know you......
Is that post modernist?
Which were turned away sad more in scripture the sinners, prostitutes, posessed? Or those that thought they were righteous?
Your sexual orientation should have nothing to do with anything at all. Yet, why is it that homosexuals use their sexual orientation to identify or validate who they are? Is life that bereft of flavor and spice for them? Are they that shallow?
Has anyone ever heard a phrase similar to this?...."You know Bob. He's that heterosexual guy in the mail room."
Of course not.
The new season of "The Apprentice" with Doanld Trump features one contestant who said, "Wait until they find out I'm gay. Watch their attitudes change toward me."
First of all, how would they find out what this person's sexual preferences are? Second, maybe the change in attitudes is not due to this person's sexual preference but because of the fact that this person just has to let everyone know what he does in the bedroom. Maybe they never cared.
Next time the urge hits one of them to spout off and declare their sexual preference, perhaps they'd be better served by sitting down and shutting the hell up. No one cares.
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