School Expels Girl for Having Gay Parents

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Good point, BeeBee. Unfortunately, I've heard that argument against gay parents before. It seems that some people think gay is the same as pedophile. It is NOT even remotely the same thing!

It's stupid that they expelled her because her parents were gay. That was really horrible of them. They have no right to expel people because of their sexual preference, or, worse yet, to expel them because they're closely -related- to homosexuals. It's just messed up. I don't usually get angry, but stuff like this.... arggh, it's stupid, just mad stupid. What's the school's adress? (or their principal's e-mail adress?)

Okay, that comment was extremely ignorant. And so was your 'abuse' comment. You obviously don't know what you're talking about there.

Either way, if the school didn't expel the kid, they would have been in a better position to keep an eye on the "parents" activities.

Why?

Because he is a homophobe.

If they are tidy i wouldnt mind keeping "an eye on the parents activities".

Interestingly enought, back in the late 1980's, there was some controversy in the UK concerning a virulently sadistic 'pornographic' story in a lesbian/feminist magazine, which featured a supposedly 'erotic' story involving the torture and mutilation of a prepubertal boy at the hands of a lesbian couple.

Quite apart from the ugly hysterical reaction from some sections of the media, the fact that such a fiction can be created is rather disturbing.

It also questions the wisdom of creating a gender apartheid along the lines of 'women look after boys', while 'men look after girls'.

This is all disturbing and distressing stuff and I think that although siimplistic reactions concerning whether or not 'pretend' families can be constructed out of so many divergent sources, we really ought to be thinking in terms of the child's welfare over and above the noisily-declaimed and histrionic demands of the 'parents'.

I really cannot see why the priority should not be focussed on the needs, safety and well-being of the child, with the parents being somewhat secondary in the considerations.

In the previous decades and the decades these people grew up in they had to deal with many prejudice's,
this would have rubbed off on many during that generation, perhaps making gay and lesbian people dislike normal people if not hate them, so what mostly was my concern for abuse was not that I think they would sexually abuse the children, but instead them letting the children know how they feel about in a negative way getting the child to think or feel that its perhaps better and more right to be and live the same life stile as the parents instead of going out with a clear mind and making their own choices, parents can greatly influence the children's opinions and once there influenced children can become vary obstinate and set in there ways of thinking and if their truly not gay or bi then they will end up miserable with much unneeded problems to deal with in their own hearts and minds, and the child will have to deal with other hurtful children jearing and teasing them about there parents, making them feel angry or hurt or envious or any of the like toward the other children and the parents them selves. and if the sex of the child is the same as the parents then it may well confuse the child as to what IS normal in the nature of things.

and yes, a part of me feels its not fair or right as an inequality that a couple girls can give up men and go have children where the male couples can not, yes they can adopt but its not the same thing and most adoption places wouldn't stand for it, which leads me to feel that if they give up a sexual mate (as in the opposite sex) that they can have children with then perhaps they should forfeit that right that nature has given man/woman couples to reproduce, I never said this is right, its just how I feel about it.
and if you notice, this couple was in a relationship long before the children was thought of, telling me that they gone out and got laid by some perhaps unknowing male or getting artificially inseminated. a male can not do that, not without the woman knowing and approving that is. the children was not a product of previous man/woman relationships.
I guess what mostly eats at me about this part of it is back when I thought I was going to be single and alone forever,- I got to the point of giving up on finding a girl and just wished I could have a child to love and be my friend and raise and no longer be alone and I was envious of girls for them being able to go get knocked up and be able to do this basically without the male knowing and having that child I wish I had. so yes its a sore spot. this has nothing to do with gay or bi though, it has more to do with inequality's.

as for the schooling, as far as I am concerned, every child no matter what their backgrounds are deserves the right to an education and a fair chance to make it in this world as all the rest. the school was wrong.

By that same logic, a single woman should not get pregnant unless she is in a relationship with a guy and should forfeit ever having sex (since, after all, an unintended pregnancy might be the result).

Biology isn't fair, get over it.

I could cite a number of instances in which nature is salnted towards the guy and against the female. For one, most STD's are sexist by nature- they affect the man very little but have much more severe effects on the woman. Often the guy doesn't even know he has them, because his symptoms are non-existent or very mild, but he can go and infect some woman (who then gets cervical cancer, or tubal scarring, leading to ectopic pregnancies or infertility...).

When a guy has unprotected sex with a woman of whatever persuasion, he takes the risk that he will father a child. If he doesn't like it, he has a very good alternative: use a condom or keep it in his pants.

It is almost impossible for a woman to forcibly get pregnant by a man, whereas the reverse is relatively common.

I am sorry, we aspies often do have painful histories, but friend, yours is no excuse to make thousands of women miserable by forcing them to choose between the love of their life and the option of childbearing.

Like you reminded me of more than once. Nothings 100%. Anyway it is rather decietful of a woman to just use a man to get pregnant if she doesnt love him. Not the sort of person that should be raising children.

<shrug>

It's deceitful of a guy to use a woman for sex if he doesn't love her, but they do it all the time.

<slightly raise eyebrow before going back into original position>

Two wrongs dont make a right though.

Getting expelled because of her parents, and not at all because of her? How snobby and extremist.

If I were Shay, then I would lobby the school. Students should not be expelled from any school because of the lifestyle (no matter how immoral) of their parents.

Reminds me of those people who think that, in order to get forgiveness, they have to go into a dark closet where a priest tells them to repeat Our Father so many times. There is nowhere in the Bible of my knowledge that says you have to go through that much of a scenario in order to be forgiven! (No offense to anyone who does this un-called-for ritual.)

It's a Christian school.

It's not like their values were kept hidden. Calling everyone who denies you something a fascist isn't going to help anything. I don't necessary approve of the school's anti-homosexual stance, but it is their prerogative as religious intitution. Doesn't make them fascists. If a public school had rejected her because of her parents, then that might have reflected more on the administrators than the school itself. Answering this kind of injustice with militantism just drags progress backwards, drags it back for everybody.

Since the school expelled the girl for being born to a lesbian couple, doesn't that inadvertently promote heterosexuality?

My guess is that they assume that if a girl is born to a lesbian couple, the girl will become a lesbian, even though science has proven that most likely it would never happen.