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I have always admired the Mormons because they take care of their own,generally they are decent,kind and moral.

In Arizona I have heard many people criticize them for not extending their "good works" outside of their church membership.I have supported their right to provide for their own church family.It is no one elses business how good people choose to use their resources,especially when they never ask the general public to support them.

People returning from Utah have commented that living there was very difficult because although it was very safe and clean,they were also "social pariahs" because they were not Mormon. I have remarked that if excluding people whose behaviors were considered to be below the standards (most complainers were drinkers)Mormons had set up for their community maybe the Mormons had more sense than they did. And after all,the complainers were free to move on,or stay and enjoy the good things those communities offered.

I was surprised when you stated you were Mormon.

I have no use for a so-called Christian who wants to see Membership records in Good Standing before they'll help you push-start your car. Such a person hasn't read the same Bible I read. All religious organizations are stuffed full of people like that...you're lucky if your local branch isn't.

I said I have my kids in a Lutheran school and they (the Lutherans there) are extremely accepting, open, giving people who concentrate on what they are doing for others rather than constantly scrutinizing others for flaws. More Christlike people I have never met. I would like to think that an LDS private school would be better-run but I honestly don't see how it could be improved. Good hiring decisions on the part of a good principal who accepts everybody, then holds them all to the same high standards. Low barriers, high standards work together to turn out excellent alumni of any program--and this is exactly the opposite of what has ruined so many organizations and professions, that have high admissions barriers and low membership standards. See your education majors, see your Catholic priests--anybody who must meet incredibly convoluted requirements to enter a profession, then, once there, need meet virtually no standard of conduct or competence at all to remain within it. There are good people who run the gauntlet, then remain good; their accomplishments are so heavily tarnished by the bad ones who make it past the gauntlet and abuse the system ever after.

I hope nobody thinks I believe the state (at any level) should force this school to take anybody. Private is private. They have a right to accept or reject any applicant for any reason, and they don't have to say why. I think they are unChristian in what they've done. I do not think they have no RIGHT to do it. It's wrong but legal.

Still: she's four--how many reasons to reject her could there be besides the sexuality of her parents? So they're being deceptive there, something not terribly unusual for that kind of bureaucracy. It's clear why they turned her down. And it's a terrible twisting of Christ's message to us. This little girl has been rejected by Christ's agent on earth. She will always know that.

It isn't Love Thy Neighbor IF.... Goodnight, all.