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News from the town I grew up in....

School Expels Girl for Having Gay Parents
By Associated Press

ONTARIO, Calif. - 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.

"Your family does not meet the policies of admission," Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, the girl's biological mother.

Stob wrote that 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.

Stob could not be reached for comment by the newspaper. Shay and her parents said they won't fight the ruling.

School administrators learned of the parents' relationship this week after Shay was reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game, Tina Clark said.

Clark and her partner have been together 22 years and have two other daughters, ages 9 and 19.

It's disheartening to see this kind of bigotry in the place where I grew up. I realize that many Xian faiths feel homosexuality is wrong. I don't blame them for not fighting the ruling, though. Who wants to stay where they're clearly not wanted? (That's why I don't understand gay Republicans, either.)

Posted by Jean on Friday, September 23, 2005 at 9:21 AM | Permalink