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I get up at about 5:30 each morning, have some tea, fix and have breakfast with my wife. I get dressed, usually in a nice suit (my workplace doesn't require professional dress, but it implicitly expected), and commute to work. I teach middle school for six hours, grade papers or go to meetings for another hour and a half. I commute home, stopping at the gym to exercise some nights, or jog around the track at home, relax with afternoon tea and prepare supper. I have supper with my family, the time varying depending upon when my spouse gets off of work. In the evening then relax, reading, watching tv, going to a movie, playing cards with my family. Once a week I meet with a few others like me and we discuss issues that are important to us. My family goes to an amusement part once or twice a month, and makes a trek across country most summers to visit the great Eastern parks. I make love to a beautiful woman about three times a week, more some weeks, less others. We don't have children, but plan to start trying in about a year's time. We tend to eat lean, lots of steamed rice and vegetables, a little lean meat, pasta, and fresh sliced fruits and veggies. We indulge in pizza or fried chicken once a week. I collect and read comic books, and run a small business related to that.
If you made it through all that without falling asleep, here's the point. That's my lifestyle. Though the particulars may change a bit, where you live, what kind of recreation you enjoy, that's not much different from a huge swath of Americans from all walks of life in monogamous relationships.
That is a homosexual lifestyle. I say "A" homosexual lifestyle pointedly here, and not "the" homosexual lifestyle, because there is no one lifestyle, no one way of living ones life, no one way of making choices about how to live one's life that defines the "homosexual lifestyle," any more than there is one "heterosexual lifestyle".
If you wanted to say I live a "nerd lifestyle," that'd be more meaningful than saying I live a "homosexual lifestyle".
The school, so long as they aren't recieving government funding of any kind in any measure, has the right to set their rules however they like and enforce them as they see fit.
Still, I think it's sad that an irrational predjudice leads them to punish a girl for her parents' status.
By the way, I'm not sure if anyone pointed out the obvious reason they'd send their daughter to a Christian school. Maybe they're Christians, and wanted a Christian education for their daughter, or their daughter is herself a practicing Christian, or both. Being homosexual and being Christian are not mutually exclusive conditions.
Gilda
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