Second grade girl expelled from Christian school over girl crush, mom says

[Halbhh]

This is utterly disgusting. This is why we need to rethink religious exemptions to the standards (laws) society has set. This is child abuse under the guise of religion. People will always use religion as their excuse for hurting others.

I'm of 2 minds about it:

One the one hand it's a clear wrong, and even un-Christian (see my first post in this thread for why).

On the other hand: she's lucky to find out now, and leave that mis-run school, today, before they spend too much time there!

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Another aspect:

One position I take that might surprise some people: I think it is correct that the Supreme Court found that the baker in Colorado that didn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding had the right to refuse.

2018 -- "The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c68cf8-6802-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html

I think the court is correct (not just by definition, but in an ultimate way also). We don't help people in any way by forcing them.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

And nothing says Christian like exclusion!

True Christianity is, or should be, known for it's exclusivity.

 

[Halbhh]

She might have been referring to the general breakdown of traditional marriage, with homosexuals living together openly as a contributing factor.

Ok, but...please help, I totally don't understand, and can't think of a way that 'gay marriage' could be a "contributing factor" to breakdown of traditional marriage. (traditional couples aren't staying together simply because they don't know about gay couples)

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

A private Christian school in Oklahoma allegedly expelled a second grader and cut ties with her family after she told a female classmate that she had a crush on her.

The student’s mom, Delanie Shelton, told NBC News that she received a call Jan. 21 from the Rejoice Christian School in Owasso, just outside Tulsa, telling her that she had to pick up her 8-year-old daughter, Chloe, after an “incident on the playground.”

Shelton said when she arrived at the school, Vice Principal Kelli Owens asked her how she feels “about girls liking girls.”


“I said, ‘Well, if I'm being honest with you, I think it's OK for girls to like girls,’ and I mean, she looked like disgusted and surprised at my answer,” Shelton said.

A private Christian school in Oklahoma allegedly expelled a second grader and cut ties with her family after she told a female classmate that she had a crush on her.

The student’s mom, Delanie Shelton, told NBC News that she received a call Jan. 21 from the Rejoice Christian School in Owasso, just outside Tulsa, telling her that she had to pick up her 8-year-old daughter, Chloe, after an “incident on the playground.”

Shelton said when she arrived at the school, Vice Principal Kelli Owens asked her how she feels “about girls liking girls.”


“I said, ‘Well, if I'm being honest with you, I think it's OK for girls to like girls,’ and I mean, she looked like disgusted and surprised at my answer,” Shelton said.
She said Principal Rita Woolf asked her where Chloe learned “this kind of language about the word ‘gay,’” to which Shelton said she responded by noting that gay couples are represented in many kids’ television shows, adding, “unless you completely shelter your children, it's just part of life.”

Shelton said the school officials told her to take her daughter home and not to bring her back the next day. When they got home, Shelton said Chloe started crying and told her that a teacher said, “The Bible says that you can only marry a man, and you can only have kids with a man, and it's a sin for girls to like girls, and it's not in the Bible, and it's not OK in God's eyes.”

“She was crying and just asking me if God still loved her, and, you know, if she was wrong for feeling the way that she does,” Shelton added.

Second grade girl expelled from Christian school over girl crush, mom says

This outcome is not about the child at all, although, of course, the child was collateral damage. This is on the MOTHER for teaching her young children one point of view and then sending them to a private Christian school that she well knew adhered to an opposite point of view, based on its faith teachings. She signed a contract.

Bad move, and the child was the victim.

 

[Halbhh]

True Christianity is, or should be, known for it's exclusivity.

10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

[or 'Why isn't he more exclusive?']

12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 9 NIV

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

Hate, intolerance, bullying, child abuse ...what great standards

In reality, none of those apply here. None of that occurred - except bordering on the last, in that the mother told her child one view was acceptable, and then sent her to a private Christian school that adhered to its faith teachings which she well knew espoused a contrary, biblical view, and to which Mom agreed to abide in writing.

Mom should have been consistent, and her child suffered.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Ok, but...please help, I totally don't understand, and can't think of a way that 'gay marriage' could be a "contributing factor" to breakdown of traditional marriage. (traditional couples aren't staying together simply because they don't know about gay couples)

It's part of the liberal attitudes toward traditional marriage in general.

 

[Halbhh]

The choice for all of us -- individuals, churches, schools....

Do you accept the lost, the sinner, and love them and teach them, like Jesus....

?

What is your choice?

On the day of Judgement, we will all answer for what we did knowingly wrong that is big enough to be serious, and of which we did not confess and repent.

 

[Halbhh]

It's part of the liberal attitudes toward traditional marriage in general. It's part of the leaven that grows and grows.

Well, if this were really so, then marriage would have already collapsed long ago, simply from any sins around the community. (such as adultery, etc., greed, and so on-- things that can destroy marriages if the person in the marriage does them) All marriages through all of time in all nations, because the universal reality that sin is around us.

 

[SilverBear]

I'm of 2 minds about it:

One the one hand it's a clear wrong, and even un-Christian (see my first post in this thread for why).

On the other hand: she's lucky to find out now, and leave that mis-run school, today, before they spend too much time there!

------------------
Another aspect:

One position I take that might surprise some people: I think it is correct that the Supreme Court found that the baker in Colorado that didn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding had the right to refuse.

2018 -- "The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c68cf8-6802-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html

I think the court is correct (not just by definition, but in an ultimate way also). We don't help people in any way by forcing them.

actually the court ruled that legal proceedings in Colorado had shown a hostility to the baker's religious views. The court side stepped ruling on the discrimination the baker was engaging in

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

And nothing says Christian like exclusion!

You mean like how Jesus will separate the sheeps and the goats?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

[or 'Why isn't he more exclusive?']

12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 9 NIV

This school is demonstrating exclusive beliefs. Regarding the sinners at Jesus' table, "many are called but few are chosen".

 

[FreeinChrist]

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