by Shanna Schultz

Created on: April 23, 2009   Last Updated: April 25, 2009

Christian schools are primarily considered private schools. The difference between pirvate schools and public schools is that private schools are not funded by the state. So as a result, the revenue that a private school recieves is primarily through tutition and of course, donation. Since these educational institutions accept payment from private families for the education of their children, this system is essentially a business.

Now when it comes to the requirement of allowing children of gay parents into their school, that's a private matter. For the government, state or federal, to require private businesses to accept students they don't want, is against the ideals of privatized business. Since the private schools don't take any money from the government, the government shouldn't make demands on the instituion to go against it's own prinicples.

Currently, in the status quo, some Christian or private schools do allow the children of gay parents to attend their institutions, so the option is available for those families.

But let's see some a big negatives that would happen if the government did choose to mandate that Christian schools accept children of homosexual parents.

Discrimination. Sure, kids have it hard enough in social situations with being picked on and being pushed into cliques. However, lets do some analysis. Families that have been prejudiced against homosexual couples specifically seclude their children in the religious institution to shelter them away from those ideologies. So, we can see that generally, especially at young ages, the ideals that children's parent hold are passed onto their children. At the point in which kids of homosexual parents are forced into the private schooling system, those children will be met with hostility, not only from their classmates, but most likely their instructors. So aside from the adolescent hassles of being too tall or too fat or too tan, these children become, for lack of a better description, "too gay". The future impacts of this discrimination on these children from homosexual couples can be life altering, with the possible outcome of those at Columbine or Virginia Tech.

Constitutional Violations. The Constitution guarantees not freedom OF religion, but freedom FROM religion. The government cannot mandate two religious sects to combine, especially when they are privatized businesses. The government would have no jurisdiction or legal ground to begin to make those mandates. At the point that one part of the Constitution is violated, there is nothing stopping the government from continually doing it.

While the ideas of Christianity seem to be welcoming all walks of life, human interpretation of this religion tend to divide organizations.

The end result of having the government force homosexual couples' children into christian schools, is not only a violation of the Constitution and private business, it will have huge impacts upon the lives of countless children, and that is a risk we should never be willing to take.

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