Posted on 05/17/2002 3:36:51 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee
Here's a counterexample. What if the Catholic Church stipulates to its priests they won't be allowed to be recognized as priests if they are gay or pedophiles. A similar argument (false argument) might be held that the leadership of the laity was being held hostage by such a standard.
In this case, the church might need to defend itself from entering into an agreement with a party who in turn, if fails to act within the guidelines understood by the church as minimally acceptable, then the church would expose themselves to liabilities caused by the parent which they never intend to agree to accept.
Church is well within their rights to reject the relationship, IMHO.
Way to go, you just taught this child a very valuable lesson!
I am sorry and apologize to my fellow Freepers. This is a very sensitive issue with me. Because of something simular as I was growing up, I did change my religion to Wicca.
My two daughters are very Christian and I drill them constantly to teach them those lessons. But for me, the Church drove me away and I simply can not be a part of that culture.
That is a personal burden, but one that I must with.
Please be very carefull with children. You may be teaching them the wrong lessons, in your efforts to help.
And very few of them report their "cash" tips as income to the IRS! And the IRS doesn't do anything to the club owners who under report all the time.
This woman intentionally uses her body to encourage men to lust. She has refused to change occupations and has put money over principle. And you still don't see why the Christian school has objections?
She is not a prostitute.
I think you are grasping at straws. The two examples you state are mutually exclusive, the church has never railed against someone merely being a homosexual, and the other is clearly a violation of civil law.
What is going here is much like a merchant in a free society stipulating requirements against the law, before transacting business. It is much more like the phone company demanding that you convert to islam, before allowing you to connect to their service. The law should come down hard on this school and demand that they cease and desist, as this parent has committed no crime. If this comes to trial, it is my opinion that the parent will win, and it will be determined that the school never had the right to demand arbitrary behavior beyond what the law currently demands.
I give up!
Fine, force the mother to become a waitress and put the daughter into public education. She will become a good Democrat in a few years. Besides, it is your tax money that she will be receiving.
Just because stripping is legal does not make it okay. It's also legal to file harassing lawsuits. It's legal that OJ was aquitted of murdering two people. It's legal (in most places) to commit adultery. It's legal for a president to give pardons to the likes of a Marc Rich, drug dealers, and a convicted pedophile.
No, stripping is not moral. Furthermore, it is often associated with prostitution, drugs, the mob, and the demeaning of women. The statistics alone as to the volume and violent nature of crimes committed by strippers (and the men associating with strippers) should raise red flags.
Well, you certainly learned the NOW doctrine. "Marriage is prostitution." "Love is just biology." "Children are disposable" "Every moral judgement is hypocrisy"
Commandant? I dunno, Col. Wilhelm Klink?
Semi-seriously: I could be a wise guy and suggest that she was inducing people to break number ten. But actually, she was acting in discord with several things that Jesus and his apostles said and wrote about fostering lust in ourselves and in others. Here is a good summation of those passages. Read 'em and weep learn.
Unless there is a clear violation of the law, I would respectively suggest the school go pound sand.
So why didn't Silvas do that instead of making herself (and her daughter) the main attraction in a media circus?
It should be against the law to willfully become an indentured servant simply by attempting to provide an education for your offspring.
Oh, brother...re-read what you wrote. "It should be against the law to willfully..." I don't even have to finish the sentence. It's nonsensical.
No one should have to sign away their rights to educate their family.
Get real. If she had sent her kid to public school, this wouldn't be an issue at all. Heck, in public school, a kindergarten teacher could BE a stripper, and no one would care. But Silvas claims she wanted her daughter to have a Christian education, and by signing that agreement, she said in effect that she agreed with the school's philosophy. She actually didn't, and that became obvious. So, now she can spend her sweaty neatly folded bills somewhere else.
The school is holding a childs education hostage by demanding arbitrary behavior from a free and law abiding citizen and this practice should be halted.
Yeah! The school shouldn't be able to have its own standards! The school should be forced to serve any parent who coughs up the bucks, even if said parents are deleterious to the atmosphere of the classroom or the homes of the students, thus nullifying the effects of the education. It doesn't even matter that they are a private entity and have the legal right to decide whose children they will educate and whose they won't. YEAH!
What a great liberal you are!
Just whom are we going to allow to define morality, a corrupt government, the fallen church of Rome, you and your interpretation of the Bible maybe? We are standing on the last bastion of freedom, constitutional law. If we allow the busybodies free reign and ride roughshod over liberty we only have each other to blame
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Here's some basic math for you:
Public education - immoral profession + Christian values at home > Christian education + parental hypocrisy.
No one forced the mother into doing anything. Her life is her own. She chose her path, and now she's whining about the result.
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