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While I agree with much of what you said, the mother did in fact sign her child up at a Christian school. It would seem she did want something different for her child other than the way she lives.

but how far is she willing to go to provide something different? not far enough to quit and find legitimate employment of which her child can be proud rather than ashamed? who has more of an influence over our children, our schools or ourselves, by example?

While I agree with much of what you said, the mother did in fact sign her child up at a Christian school. It would seem she did want something different for her child other than the way she lives.

My wife is the director of Children and Family ministries at a fairly liberal Presbyterian Church. She also teaches at the pre-school.

Seems this story raised a ruckus there too. BTW when the political litmus test was applied to this one, the libs were BY FAR on the side of keeping her in the school. Ah-hem.

The point that shut them all up was when my wife said, "what makes you think the woman wanted a Christian education for her child?" Now before you state the obvious, let me point out that in my wife's "Christian" school about 20% of the kids are Jewish, about 5% Islamic, and over half have no official church affiliation. So why do they go to a "Christian" school? Lots of reasons.

1. Before my wife got there, you would have been hard pressed to discern that it was a Christian school at all. No chapel, no grace at meals, no Christian curriculum, not even Christian posters. My wife changed all that, but the "other than Christian" still attend.

2. The school is convenient to many parents. It is situated close to downtown and it is easy to drop kids off on the way to work.

3. The school is cheaper than most of the private secular pre-schools.

4. There are no free, public pre-schools. Public education doesn't start in our area until kindergarten. Yeah, there is head start, but most non-minorities wouldn't send their kid there under any circumstance.

So maybe this stripper sent her kid to that school for reasons other than religion. Maybe it was convenient, maybe it was cheap, maybe she thought they didn't take Christianity seriously.

In any event, from a conservative point of view, a private institution has a right to associate, or not associate with, whomever they like, within the bounds of the law. From a Christian point of view, it appears that they attempted to be Christ-like in their compassion, but even Jesus had no compassion for those who were unwilling to stop sinning.