Why are Americans so stupid? The lack of a good education is doubtless at the root of this particular evil. For instance, a school that would expel a kid for having gay parents. That's not my kind of school. But it's here in my home state of California.
A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are lesbians, the school's superintendent said in a letter. Shay Clark was expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.
Yeah, that's right: "Christian School."
School policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday's edition.
Nowhere in the four Gospels does Jesus Christ say a thing about homosexuality. Paul says a few nasty things about "sodomites," but that's not Christ, that's Paul. There is an argument to be made that Christ was, himself, gay, but make it at your peril. It can incur death threats, as playwright Terrence McNally found out.
Regardless of what kind of sex Jesus liked, why do these homophobes call themselves "Christians" and use Christianity as an excuse for their homophobia, when there is clearly no textual basis for it?
By the way, the little girl's biological mom has been with her partner for 22 years, and they have 3 kids. This couple could probably teach something about happy marriage to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Henry Hyde and Newt Gingrich, among others.