Let me play the Devil's Advocate here.
Let's assume (strictly hypothetically) that, on a three sheets to the wind night, my cross-dressing homosexual father thought that my bull dyke lesbian mother was a "he" and my bull dyke lesbian mother thought my father was a "she". In spite of the alcohol induced fog, I was conceived.
Let's further assume that, regardless of their sexual orientations, that my parents were pro-life and I was allowed to be born.
Should I, as the child, be held to account for my parent's lifestyles?
If anybody would be in the most need of a Christian school education, would it be the child with two Christian parents or would it be me?
It is undeniable that a private school has the right to expel anyone they please. The question, however, is if Christ would penalize the child for the sins of the parents.
Ezekiel 18:20 - "The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself."
I think that these are two different issues. You are asking if Christian schools should accept kids whose parents aren't believers. These parents signed an agreement stating that at least one of them was living a Christian life.
I think that Christian schools could be great places for outreach. However, when parents are deceitful, unfortunately, their kids pay a price.
Christian education is about making a sort of Christian 'ghetto' for kids to be educated in...one that shields kids from blatant disregard for God's word. To not know that Christians have a problem with homosexuality is to be stupid or to be pretending so as to hide your true agenda. If the school knew about the girl's situation, they might have erred on the side of grace, I hope. But now, they are dealing with people who have lied to them outright about core convictions that they hold dear so that their kid could go to a good school. That's wrong. There are consequences for wrong behavior.
And, BTW, this kid was paying a price before she ever enrolled at the school.
What a schizophrenic statement. In the first sentence you seem to have your mind made up that this is a cut-and-dry legal case. Then you seem to doubt this position, implying it's not fair to the child, so let's let this couple force a change in the rules at will. Do you actually support this (second) position?
I don't think it's fair to the other children or the other parents, who are enrolled there with the expectation that they are associating with other Christians. The freedom of association of the child of the homosexual parents does not trump the freedom of association of everyone else.
I don't expect their position, which was apparently the result of deceptive practice to begin with, is any more defensible than, say, a pair of devoutly Muslim parents who managed to hide their beliefs for the same amount of time.