1) A quick check of my posting history will expose me as a flaming liberal as well as an avowed atheist—Not!
2) I believe we should deal with this type of thing with love and humility, knowing that we ourselves are no less a sinner in the eyes of God than anyone else.
1Jo 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1Jo 3:11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
I’m not saying this was an easy situation for the school to handle. I just think I would have handled it differently.
“I’m not saying this was an easy situation for the school to handle. I just think I would have handled it differently.”
I agree it is more complex than saying “throw out the sinner!” A problem is the Gospel is not clearly taught in our churches. The liberal churches teach antinomianism (no law) but the conservative churches maybe teach the Gospel until you are “saved” but from that point it is about following Jesus as your example, keeping up appearances, legalism without much forgiveness and looking to make “examples” of sinners worse than you. At best some churches teach a sort of social moralism but the Gospel gets left out.