Posted on 01/23/2015 6:04:45 AM PST by pnz1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A local school’s decision to deny entry to two children of a same-sex couple has gone viral.
The married same-sex couple had applied for their young children to go to a non-denominational private school in Nashville. Everything seemed to be on track until they received a letter denying their entry because the children had gay parents.
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Denying entrance into a school seems unfair to the kids, however having same sex parents is even more unfair to the kids.
These kids are never going to have a normal life or ever going to have a normal relationship. That’s just the way life is...
“Abide by missions and beliefs”
Sounds to me like a pretty strong statement and also sounds like the “couple” was testing the school for just what they are getting, publicity. What a travesty that children are being used for agendas.
I agree with those who are saying this doesn’t pass the smell test. Unnamed, non-denominational private school that has a mission statement that bans homosexuals? And puts it in writing in their rejection letter? Nope, I’m not buying it.
Did they have this "Hawaiian process cloning method" in say 1961?
St. Vincent’s School in Dallas, Texas had a similar furor around 2009. They put a similar mandate in place as part of a schism with the Episcopal Church, where the parent organization not only said homosexual couples are OK but ordained a gay bishop with a husband. Most of the Fort Worth diocese split with the Episcopal church, taking several churches and two schools with it.
In the St. Vincent’s case, they clearly placed in the admission requirements that the child had to have a married mother and a father (divorced OK, widowed OK, adopted kids of a married couple OK, no unmarried parents, no single mom via artificial insemination, no homosexual pairs). Both parents if living had to sign off on the religious education notice.
They did this knowing that they’d lose out on unmarried couples and never-married mothers supported by grandparents. They knew it created conflict with political correctness.
They gained the ability to freely teach that a married mother and father is the perfect, ordained family type and everything else is inferior. No child comes running home crying that Mommy, Mommy’s boyfriend, the priest said you’re living in sin! No child gets upset that she has two mommies and the teacher said that is immoral, or an argument that “my parents are married, too, but both of mine are Dads, you can’t say God is against that because they’re married and they love each other!”
So the change is partially political (deliberate return to Biblical teaching) and partially to ensure religious freedom without hurting students of kids in preschool and the K-12 school.
Next school year, a little girl is trying to enroll in the kindergarten. Her mother is iffy on name of child’s father, school says we have to have the father sign off on the religious teachings. The mother then admits she has a wife, gets refused with information on local private schools that are A-OK with that living arrangement and public schools in the area. The mother goes to the news with “they denied my child, the bigots!” News reports hardly mentioned she was a local Democratic party chair or some similar position, targeting the school for its “biased” position.
The fact that it was considered more compassionate not to enroll a kid who would attend chapel each day and Bible study several times a week hearing traditional religious views that conflicted with her parent’s lifestyle than create the tension was not important to the news organizations.
Instead, we had to up security at the school, as they received bomb threats, anyone named in the news reports got death threats, etc.
Certainly not in Tennessee. 81% of the voters passed a constitutional amendment recognizing marriage as only between one man and one woman.
Furthermore, they added, "If another state or foreign jurisdiction issues a license for persons to marry and if such marriage is prohibited in this state by the provisions of this section, then the marriage shall be void and unenforceable in this state."
Good for them.
If you can’t be upfront about your beliefs because of fear, then you lose - yes, even in the days.
I’m glad they gave the reason. At least the uncivilized drama from the sodomites will reveal,their demonic hatred.
Not likely. Members and parents of truly Christian schools know the score, and expect such vile, demonic attacks, and such events tend to circle the wagons to strengthen the resolve and support. Again, I am NOT including Catholic schools in this group, where students and parents would be attacking the decision as severely as e sodomites.
These two sodomites aren’t “married.” This is Tennessee. The court found their marriage laws were valid.
These two sodomites aren’t “married.” This is Tennessee. The court found their marriage laws were valid.
Of course it is a lie. It's the mainstream media.
Clearly, inclusion of these children because of the sodomite relationship associated with them is untenable.
The fascists will force them to relent. Then soon, very soon, female christian teenagers will be forced to help in abortion clinics.
Well, at least someone in this country has some backbone. Certainly not the gutless Republican party.
Proud to be a native Tennessean (and wishing like hell I could get back there).
A biological impossibility.
IIRC, it was developed in the late nineties, 19 nineties.
These two (unfortunate) kids look a little young for school to me.
Looks like this “couple” are looking for a fight. They read the handbook and tried to sign up anyway.
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