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follower of the child's crusade?
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Originally Posted by Phage
What is the point of having a religion and professing your faith in it, if you don't follow it? People of different religions have different standards of what is moral and it just so happens that this particular part of Christianity thinks that gays are not acting morally.
You might make sense debating their beliefs about gayness, but accusing them of being bigots is insanity; surely they should make sure that those seeking to be part of their group abide by their beliefs.
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It is only acceptable to support the school's actions, as long as the school also enforce the following standards:
Any parent who is remarried should have their children expelled from this school, and most divorcee's also.
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And some Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause at all?" And He answered and said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ' For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh'? Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." They *said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?" He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart, Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." (Matt 19:3-9)
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Any child who eats pork or shellfish shall be expelled, the parents of any child eating the same shall be expelled.
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And the swine, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. 8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you Lev 20:7
But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is an abomination to you. They shall remain an abomination to you; of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall have in abomination Lev 20:10-11
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any child who does any kind of work on Saturday, or whose parents do any kind of work on a a Saturday, shall be expelled.
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"'Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you. Deut 5:12-15
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I could go on, but I guess you get the idea? These commands are not open for debate. Certainly every person is free to believe of themselves and their God what they will... but it is not for the individual to say what a religion stands for. The God of the Christians is defined by the law as set out in the Bible.
If you do not follow the law, you cannot be a Christian. Even Jesus himself said that he did not come to contradict the prophets, but to reinfocre them. If this school is to arbitrarily decide which elements of the law it enforces and which it does not, then it commits sin. As the homosexual should be treated, so should the man who sleeps with his wife while she is on her period. So should the sinner who consumes unclean meat be treated, and so on.
If it were to be discovered that this school did allow the parents of divorced children, or that it did allow or even FORCE children to do homework on the Sabbath... certainly it should not be allowed to take the title of a Christian school. Freedom is one thing, but this would be merely fraud and deception... and the school's teaching would be a serious deviation and a grave sin.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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