[fr_freak]

These are all wonderful platitudes about how Jesus would have welcomed these lesbians into his arms, and I encourage you, if you are Christians, to feel free to reach out to people like this and bring them the Word.

With that said, I'd like to point out that this is a school we're talking about, not a church, not a religious missionary organization. This is an organization whose sole purpose is the education of children within a Christian environment in order to reinforce the Christian beliefs that are under such heavy assault everywhere else in the world. Those who run the school understand that instilling such values can only be done successfully within a partnership of school and parents, each reinforcing what the other teaches, but the majority of the influence coming from the parents. So, if the parents, as in this case, have willfully rejected Biblical teachings, the school underestands that their attempts to counter that influence are pointless. Furthermore, allowing this family, and it is the family that is accepted, not just the student, to belong to this school is to allow an ideology which is exactly contrary to that which you are trying to teach to get its foot in the door of your school, with increasing levels of "tolerance" to follow.

If you wish to reach out to such people as these unrepentant lesbians, do so, and bear the burden of reaching out to the lost yourselves. Do not require that burden to be carried by the children just so you can imagine yourselves to be more Christ-like.

[andie74]

"..within a Christian environment in order to reinforce the Christian beliefs that are under such heavy assault everywhere else in the world."

Is loving your neighbor not a Christian belief?

Do not require that burden to be carried by the children just so you can imagine yourselves to be more Christ-like.

Read post 60. It depends on the kid. But I would feel absolutely remiss in discipling my children if I did not teach them to love others who are not Christ-followers.

[Walkingfeather]

WHAT BURDEN? What kid knew except a few? You are right this organization is to
"sole purpose is the education of children within a Christian environment in order to reinforce the Christian beliefs that are under such heavy assault everywhere else in the world."

Maybe you do not realize the Christian beliefs that need to be reienforced. And yes they are under heavy assault, that was promised, but are we not to give grace and mercy?

Would you want the same measure of grace to be measured on you as you have this young girl?