That is exactly the question: Should the kids be the ones to pay?
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.
I know all about the "ghetto for kids to be educated in". For the past three years, we had a Christian school in our third floor with a Christian teacher and 10 students.
A true Christian teacher tells it as she sees it regardless of the lifestyle of the parents. It is the homosexual parent, not the Christian school, who would be put on the defensive.
Right. But I think that there is a way to love people, to be concrete about your beliefs, and still care about who they are.
As for kids paying a price, well, that is difficult to say. It depends on the kid. It depends on the circumstance. I certainlt do not want my kids sacrificed on the altar of secular humanism. And yet, I do not want them growing up believing that they cannot have a friend or make a friend who is an unbeliever and a blatant one at that. It's a prayerfully made judgment call.
Tell me, how exactly did this girl 'pay'? What emotional torture are you assigning to her?
Whatever it is, is it worse than if the school admitted her and necessarily disparaged her parents with Christian teachings that condemn homosexuality, co-habitation out of wedlock, and teach that her 'parents' lifestyle is "evil" and offends God?
Is the 'heavy price' the girl is now paying because of the 'callousness' of the school worse than the price she'd pay at the hands of her peers who are ALL being taught that homosexuality is a grave sin and an outrage against God that "cries to heaven for vengeance"? What kind of tormenting comments would this scenario elicit from the girl's peers? Where would she fit in in an environment that proclaims her 'parents' are doing evil and fight against what her 'parents' are doing? What kind of confusion would this poor kid have to suffer?
Is this school, with its Christian teachings and its strict enrollment rules regarding the family unit the appropriate environment for this girl? What do they do when it comes time to ask the class to write what they've learned about homosexual perverts living together? If the girl defends it she necessarily gets flunked because she has learned nothing from the school's teachings. If the girl rips homosexuality for the twisted lifestyle it really is, what does this do to her relationship with her lesbian 'parents'? What does it do to the girl's sense of loyalty to her 'parents', or for that matter, loyalty to God?
I cannot undertand why you are not absolutely shredding her contemptable 'parents' for putting this child in such a terrible and dangerous situation in the first place.