But this is another matter altogether. I think what CC did this time was more in the best interest of the child. They sought to protect the privacy of the young girl and they sought to improve her home life by counselling the mother. If I were head of a church I would also be concerned about the questionable homelife of a student. This stripper mother was selfish and showed no reguard for her daughter by bringing this case to the media. She knew that her profession was in conflict with CC's standards and ethics. If she doesn't like those standards she can put her kid in the Waldorf school. There are many more options that would have been better for her child than going to the media and making her 5 y.o. the center of a scandal! This child must be suffering enough humiliation knowing that her mother takes off her clothes and sexually teases men for a living. It has to be added stress and humiliation to know that EVERYONE knows it.
So what we have then is a reflexive, thoughtless adherence to a policy, and a pastor that makes no allowance for a litttle common sense..(like letting the CHILD finish the three weeks..)
I'm reminded of an old country song (from the 1960s or 1970s) called Please Don't Go Topless Mother where a small boy is pleading for his mom to give up topless dancing.
I couldn't find an mp3 or a wav (or even a copy of the lyrics) but I did find an archived real player radio broadcast where it is 11 songs into the show. Playlist for Inner Ear Detour with David S - October 22, 2001