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I will be patient with you and explain again: the Church, nor the Parish in question, has "condemned" the little kid for her parents (?) sins. The Parish has exercised its right to deny admission, with the best welfare of the child AND its other enrollees--AND their parents.

I think you're being more than a little pushy about this...

The child cannot win in an environment where, eventually, it will be clear that her parent/s(?) are living in not only an immoral fasion, but an un-natural one, as well. This poor kid will be emotionally crucified when that happens.

Further, there's not ONE good reason why the Parish should expose its current crop of enrollees to the situation which, of course, will become known within 2 weeks of the first day of school. And there are a LOT of good reasons why the Parish would not want to put current parents in the position of trying to explain to their children why "Jane and Sally" are parent/s(?)

The kid will be damaged, but not because of the Church. The kid was maliciously damaged by the selfishness of her parent/s(?)

Don't you dare try to pass the blame to the Church.

Once again.

It was "Feed my sheep...Feed my lambs." Not, "Accept the lamb only if it has the right pedigree."

It was "...And forbid them not." It wasn't, "Question her parents and make sure that they are perfectly worthy for their child to come to Me."

When you put a bureaucracy in charge, you get fine print, caveats, and policies instead of proper Christlike love and charity. And you sure make it easy for people who want confrontation to get what they want. Misery for everybody. If they'd quietly let the child in, and coped, where would the misery be?

What did Christ tell us about the extra mile? It wasn't a good Christian making a demand in that parable, you know. But it's the good Christian who goes the extra mile. Ever walk a mile carrying a heavy load? It isn't "go the extra mile if it's light and easy and you feel like it anyway."

Some people listen to that about as well as they listen to the also-inconvenient reference to millstones.

Your church has a chance to make things better for a little kid, and you say it'll hurt her too much to let her be exposed to the Christian teachings her mother is seeking for her...because it might cause a conflict. So she'll grow up knowing that Jesus Christ's church rejected her before she was 5. Wow. That is sure a great missionary tactic your church has there.

You think having lesbian parents isn't going to hurt her no matter what? Why not embrace and include her?

Oh yeah, I remember why.