by G E Barr

Created on: January 25, 2009

THE PROBLEM WITH SANCTIMONY

Not only should christian schools be required to accept children of gay parents, they should do so without being told to. Nothing in the Bible indicates otherwise. When christians become involved with society and politics at the level of any type of administration, they have no right to dictate their morals on other people. Nor do they have the rather evil privelege of judging and condemning children.

This is just one of the reasons for seperation of church and state. To keep christianity what it is supposed to be and out of places where it can become Nazi-like extensions of government.

I'm not gay and to my knowledge, none of my children are. If any of them were, I'd love them the same. I wouldn't judge or condemn them. I'd accept them as they are, just as I do now. My past is worse than anything they've done. You know, wild thing that I was after age 14.

I find it sickening that christianity is being polluted with heavy injections of self righteous declarations of exclusion and forms of flaunted superiority as the so-called holy await the return of Christ or the end of the world, which ever comes first for them.

If a person is gay and happily gay and does not wish to become straight, then that is his or her personal decision. If a gay couple wants their child to attend a christian school that must be an indication that they desire a traditional education without the usual interruptions and problems with public school. And what, that can't be tended to?

Yes, it can be. However, no doubt, in a christian school it is openly discussed that homosexuality is a damnable sin. They won't also openly say that incest and pedophilia are condemnable sins. Of course not. That goes on way too much in the heterosexual community. Who wants to deal with the fall out of that discussion?

I think that gay people should be left alone to make the decisions that they want to make which are not hurting anyone. Many times, gay people turn out to be better parents than heterosexuals. I've known gay people in my life who really inspired me. It had nothing to do with sex and more to do with their sense of responsibility and their creative abilities.

Honestly, given the high population of gay people in this country, I don't know how anyone thinks that they are going to be shunned and cast out. It just isn't going to be possible.

Further, knowing what I know about religion, I can't really imagine why gay parents would want their children attending a christian school.

A good, secular private school is no doubt much better for children psychologically. Where they can attain a sound education free from the neurosis of the sanctimonious.

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