Sunday, September 25, 2005

Morality Issue?

This news article caught my eye earlier today and started me to thinking about morality. I understand that Christian schools have a right to make their own rules. I even agree with them; most of them. My kid attends a Christian school for a lot of those morality issues. But where do we draw the line? And do the lines need to be drawn?
I have to admit that this one has me a little bit confussed. On one hand there is a non-traditional family, but a family, none the less, who cares enough about their kids to pay for their education at a Christian school. This tells me that this family makes enough money to be able to afford the high cost of this education. This couple has been together for more than 22 years, according to the article, so that tells me that they are "stable people." I am assuming that their children are relatively well-adjusted because I am nearly positive that if there were anything in these kid's backgrounds that the news media could dig up as negative, they would have done so. The same is true of the parents. Therefore, everyone must be a law-abiding, tax paying citizen or else, I am sure, it would have been reported. We all know how the news media loves to report on the negative, especially that of the gay community. On the other hand, we have a school, who, from everything I can tell, has no prior problems with this family or the children. Some teacher or administrator simply overheard one of the kids talking at a school function and realized that her parents were gay, so she was kicked out of school because it is apparently against school policy that a student have a gay parent. To me, this sounds as if this particular school believes that children of gay parents are not worthy of a Christian education. Isn't this school passing judgement on this child? Aren't they passing judgement on what this family is deserving of? And isn't it God's job to judge? As I said, this one has me bumfuzzled.
I am fully aware that the school is within it's right's legally. However, I am thinking that kicking a child out of school for this reason, has got to be against the law, Right? At any rate it has got to be unconstitutional.  And in their judgement ANYONE knows that they are doing God's job...the judging. God judges not a school or any other institution. This is just WRONG on so many levels that it breaks my heart. And I am getting tired of asking, "What is this world coming to?" From my point of view, itss already come to judgemental people, terrorists, immorality, a place where bullying is alive and well, hatred, and a host of other things that, in my mind, constitutions making this world and evil place. This is just NOT right.

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