Christian School Pressured to Accept Homosexuality
September 23rd, 2011 by Peter
The Master’s School, a private Christian school in West Simsbury, is being pressured to accept homosexual activity because it allegedly encouraged a student to withdraw or face expulsion after she told administrators she is a lesbian. The public knows only her version of events as told in The Courant and elsewhere, the headmaster having declined to comment. An electronic petition to the school to change its policy has gathered 15,000 signatures in two weeks and helped to generate today’s Courant article, which will likely lead to further pressure on the school.
The Susan Campbell column that broke the story and the student’s subsequent comments in the Courant (“If you are a non-believer then you should be warned that if you live in a way that doesn’t correspond with the Bible there are consequences.”) leave the clear impression that she was practicing behavior that runs contrary to traditional Christian morality. It should be a scandal to no one that a Christian school encouraged the departure of a student if that student acted contrary to its beliefs and expressed no willingness to act in accordance with those beliefs.
Except that the behavior in question is homosexual, and in post-Kerrigan Connecticut homosexuality must be affirmed and never opposed, even by private Christian schools.
Though the mainstream media still doesn’t know it, FIC achieved an enormous victory in 2009 when we and others persuaded the legislature to pass the strongest religious liberty protections against same-sex “marriage” in the nation. Those sort of laws are why the Master’s School will not face threats from the government in this matter.
The student in question, while suggesting she isn’t bothered and doesn’t want to “bad mouth” the school, notes how “unfortunate” it is that the Master’s School is “legally allowed to do what they did.” This is a common misconception by many and it is perpetrated by The Courant in how it covers these topics. Freedom of religion and affiliation is one of the highest principles of our society. We wonder if The Courant and others have the courage to continue to support those principles in the face of affiliations that displease them.
We also wonder why the self-professed champions of “tolerance” never express outrage over incidents like this.
Be sure to read carefully Sue.
I have been a life long supporter of equal legal rights for LGBT people but no private school should be forced to keep a student who in some way is against their policies/beliefs. The current wave of attempts by activists to silence opposition and to force acceptance is counter productive and will ultimately work in the favour of those who share the opinions of FIC. It’s too bad that fanatics (from any political/religious viewpoints) lose sight of what is most important – the good of those they supposedly represent. I find it a bit humorous that the direction that many LGBT groups have taken their fight has forced me to come into agreement much more often with conservative voices that I would never considered before.