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
Jesus said: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6
Which one of the lesbian parents contributed the sperm to create this daughter? Or do the laws of biology not exist in Chino (a city named after pants), California?
Can you say "media feeding frenzy"?
Jesus does not have a problem with repentant sinners, only with brazenly unrepentant sinners, such as these two "parents."
Well, there you have it. Seems to me that the school was completely in their rights. Again, as someone said earlier, I hope that the school doesn't have to defend itself in a lawsuit or can get some free legal help.
Since the one 'parent' always came to school functions and the other 'parent' didn't, doesn't that strike you as an attempt to hide something?
As an aside, I wonder just what it was that the little darling said during the football game? Being at a Christian school is a privilege, not a right.
I fully understand 'hate the sin, love the sinner.' But the consequences of lying need to be addressed. It would be a much different deal if the two women came to the school and were open about their lifestyle and asked if their daughter could attend. If it were me, I would use such as an opportunity to share Christ. But if someone had signed an agreement and willingly deceived me -- and I think that most gay people know that 95% of Christians are not wild about the gay lifestyle -- then I would enforce the code.
Because the filthy, perverted lifestyle that you're raising your daughter in, and the horrendous 'family values' that you are teaching her, flies in the face of everything being taught to her in a Christian school.
How can this "mother" want to put her daughter into an environment that firmly teaches that her mother's entire lifestyle is sick, sinful and evil? The answer is that she doesn't want her child there for any other reason than to attack the teachings of Christianity in a Court of law and to perhaps make a windfall profit in a lawsuit.
In other words, she uses her own daughter as a platform to spit in the Face of God.
This is a win/win scam for the gay couple.
If their child is refused to enroll in the school because they are lesbians, they will sue. If their child is kicked out of school because they are lesbians, they will sue. Either way, they can file a lawsuit.
This is a perfect example of how the gay community operates to tear down a religious organization that does not agree with their lifestyle.
Absolute liberal rats, period.
Tell me my friend as you look for the perfect stone...... when in your life have you not been a Brazen sinner? Do you hide it that well from others? What would Jesus be writting in the sand about now....?
Scripture is clear that Jesus was accused of hanging out with tax collectors and 'sinners'. Matthew's gospel comes immediately to mind.
One can hang out with someone in the hopes of bringing them the good news and still have a problem with their behavior. I am sure that Jesus was not thrilled that the woman at the well was living with someone who was not her husband, but he still engaged her on a level that she could understand, loving her.
They are going to sue.
Bingo.
Uh HUH that is right.... now how about.... any of you causes one of these little ones to stumble it would be better that you had a millstone tied about your neck and thrown into the sea......
Tell me..... is this little girl being lifted up???
Let me play the Devil's Advocate here.
Let's assume (strictly hypothetically) that, on a three sheets to the wind night, my cross-dressing homosexual father thought that my bull dyke lesbian mother was a "he" and my bull dyke lesbian mother thought my father was a "she". In spite of the alcohol induced fog, I was conceived.
Let's further assume that, regardless of their sexual orientations, that my parents were pro-life and I was allowed to be born.
Should I, as the child, be held to account for my parent's lifestyles?
If anybody would be in the most need of a Christian school education, would it be the child with two Christian parents or would it be me?
It is undeniable that a private school has the right to expel anyone they please. The question, however, is if Christ would penalize the child for the sins of the parents.
Ezekiel 18:20 - "The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself."
I hope that she is being lifted up in prayer, as I fear that she is being used as a tool by activist parents.
Scripture also points out many times that Christ was not "hanging out" he was eatting and drinking with them. Remember this was a sticking point with the Pharesees.....yet he was without sin...
They handled it properly. There is just no way these Christian teachers could do their job and teach this child that homosexuality is sick and evil, that entire Biblical cities have been destroyed by God for committing acts like her 'mothers' commit every day, that co-habitation out of wedlock is sinful, without causing shock and life-long emotional and pyschological trauma to this poor little girl.
The girl would be in so much confusion and pain she'd need a therapist, and then there would be lawsuits. There will probably be lawsuits anyway; this was the vicious agenda of these lesbians in the first place. They used their 'daughter' as bait, and the school had no other choice but to expel the kid. Rest assured they consulted a battery of lawyers before they acted.
You think this schools administration put this to prayer first? Was this girl walking around with a rainbow tee shirt that said "recruiter" on it like the one I saw at the mall yesterday? Or was she wanting to go to school with her other nice friends......
"When I was hungry you feed me, when I was naked you clothed me......"
When I needed a Christian educational environment you.... mocked me and spit on me....."
They can but are not likely to win as it's a private school. Our pastor had to write to the school quarterly whether our daughter was attending church and what her attitude was etc. You had to sign a waiver that allowed spanking after parental notification of an infraction.There are all sorts of rules and questions and most Christian schools have them. I don't think these people will get very far.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Ah yes the Lawyers... that is always best to consult before making a moral argument.
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