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
LOL! Well, at least you didn't ask if the daughter was.
I have a one-track mind, what can I say? :-)
How old is the girl--14? I'll betcha anything that she has to sign a code of conduct form every year, just like her mommies. She is condoning a homosexual lifestyle, and she has born false witness. Nowhere is there ever any mention of the girl being at the school to get a Christian education. That was never the intention of the unrepenant mommies; as the girl herself states, she's upset about being separated from her friends; not from her Christian environment.
There was a chance to maybe redeem the mother. But now they acted like we always act, smug, self righteous and lacking in mercy.
Here you're right and you're wrong. You're wrong in applying this reasoning to the school. The unrepenant mommies are being smug and self-righteous, and as long as they remain unrepenant, they are blowing off any hope at redemption. As I said before, they love their sinful lifestyle more than they love the unfortunate girl.
And the school is the one that caused the problem.
The school did not approach this "family" and ask for the girl to be enrolled! In agreeing with the admissions policy, the mommies, and the mommies alone, caused this situation! They LIED in order to get the girl into a CHRISTIAN SCHOOL! And you think I'M being inconsistent? You're outta yer mind.
AMEN!!!!
Oh for heaven's sake!! You have GOT to be kidding me!
This is a tough issue. Jesus did hang out with sinners (good thing, maybe HE will hang out with me, despite my sin-- although not the sin of homosexuality). But Jesus saw sin for what it is, SIN... wrongful behavior. He also said to the woman at the the well to go and sin NO MORE.
So, I believe we should not hesitate to bring the gospel of Christ to all who will hear, and not judge them. At the same time, however, we should shield our children from perversion, especially the young ones. It is not fair to have to explain why this child has "two mommies." The school is within its rights, and I guess those rights were properly exercised.
How do you think these "mommies" would respond to "Go and sin no more."????
I will tell you for him/her. We all sin, we also confess those sins, and stop committing them. These people are advocating living sin, actually an abomination, and proclaiming it normal, healthy, and Christian behavior to boot. It is also what they are teaching this girl they call their daughter. BIG difference!
There is no harm, but nobody in this media is going to tell you if the girl was witnessed to, and being it's a Christian school I am sure she was. If she advocates on behalf of the two women she lives with, tries to "open the eyes" of others, which I strongly suspect is the case, how can a Christian school permit that???
Thank you Bonaparte-- I was away from the computer. Your answer to Polybius has my full endorsement.
Unless you're a lesbian it doesn't matter.
On second thought, never mind. Too many fellow males have told me "I'm a lesbian", with subsequent explanations that are too vulgar to post.
;-)
"Ya, gotta wonder why the lesobs would send their daughter to a freakin' Christian school to begin with."
I wonder if it is a Michael Noudow (sp?) tactic? Use your kid to assault another American institution that is humming along minding its own business.
Why is it that the gay "community" can't get through their thick skulls, that their actions do affect others?
Their narcissism and failure to recognize that is part of their "disorder."
Actually I think it's a little more insidious than that. They want to change society into one that suits them. People who vote to support their agenda, with a fresh supply of willing sex partners, and subservient heteros.
I'm not saying that these particlar ones have that in mind; but the homosexual activists and radicals who call the shots cerainly do. Along with the rest of the marxist, secularist, feminist, ACLU loving dogs.
(Sorry for the insult to dogs.)
I posted this to you last night. The kids own words: As for the school's leadership, "They should be embarrassed," Shay said.
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