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Originally Posted by Phage
Everyone who thinks the school is bigoted
[i]big·ot n.
One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
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You're right. The school is intolerant and therefore bigoted.
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Originally Posted by Phage
Ok now, guys, girls, don't be morons. The school, being a Christian school, is justifiably strongly partial to the Christian faith. It would not make much sense for them to invite those openly holding directly opposing views into their school, which was specifically created as being only for those with the same beliefs.
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Something in the story doesn't add up because the student was admitted to the school in the first place. The whole situation reeks of someone within the administration getting "cold feet." If the family was not in accordance with a "positive Christian lifestyle" (of which homosexuality certainly has been successfully argued as being a part of, by the way), then why admit them in the first place?
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Originally Posted by Phage
You apparently think that the proper way to act is to be tolerant of all the views and morals of others. You find intolerance... intolerable! It should be clear at this point that you are being bigoted toward this school that is taking a moral stand, and that if you truly believed in tolerance you would tolerate their intolerance and STFU and GBTW.
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Besides the fact that you've turned this into a semantic argument, you are almost right. People ought to be tolerant of all the views and morals of others, until they cause harm. There's no convincing evidence that a homosexual family can be more harmful to a school community than a heterosexual one.
As well, I am intolerant of the school's so called "moral stand" but their ability to discover morality is handicapped by their religion, but that's best not argued on this thread.