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starwomyn 70F
5508 posts
1/19/2020 8:01 am

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1/20/2020 8:54 pm

Rainbow Cakes and the Constitution or Otherwise

I have learned fact check more than one source a story and may still not get an accurate account of the story.

There is a story circulation about a 15-year- girl who was expelled from a private Christian school because her mother purchased a cake of "assorted' colors" for the girl's 15th birthday celebration and posted it on social media.

The conclusion was that the girl was promoting a GLBT lifestyle although the mother claims that she does not identify with that community. There are other sources that indicate otherwise.

Meanwhile, the school is being spammed with rainbows on their website and . The school is being sent rainbow flags and the telephone is jammed up.

When the parents enroll the in the school, they sign an agreement live a lifestyle that is in agreement with their Christian beliefs.

The Church has the 1st Amendment rights freedom of religion and believes whatever they see fit. So what happens when a is enrolled in a Christian School as a youngster and traits of being gay develop as the matures. The choice is stay in the closet or move on. It doesn't make it right but it is the Constitution.

Once upon a time, there were churches that believed that black people were the descendants of Cain thus of a lower status than the rest of the world. Most churches have given up that ridiculous notion and have become more inclusive but not before the African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the “AME Church was founded.

My husband and I had a nude wedding at a naturalist resort. The nearby bakery refused bake the cake so we went a nearby bakery. We purchased flowers from a gay florist who had no issues with selling flowers for a nude wedding. We didn't discuss the particulars of the wedding with the caterer and bridal shop. They were just happy have the . I belonged a Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship at the time but the minister didn't want do the ceremony mostly because of the distance so we found a minister who willing do the ceremony with no pants.

The same Constitution that guarantees this Christian School and the Church that backs it the right exclude people also gives people the right go somewhere else.

I applaud this mother for celebrating her regardless versus the Christian parents who throw their gay the curb.




Abracadabra


starwomyn 70F
8872 posts
1/19/2020 8:03 am

Bravo

Abracadabra


TxJW_7 81M

1/19/2020 9:09 am

John Lennon got it right with IMAGINE.
Party On!


MrsJoe 76F
17381 posts
1/19/2020 10:05 am

First off, if a cake of assorted colors is the basis for assuming the girl is gay, that is pretty preposterous, isn't it? Sheesh..... I can remember having cakes and cupcakes of assorted colors for my kids and nobody thought anything about it back then. Guess it's a good thing we didn't have social media to post it on.
I could never understand parents who turn their back on their children like some do. As for that school, if it has exclusions because of it's religious rules, then students must abide by those rules...… but to start an uproar over just a cake? Surely there must have been more?


Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


starwomyn 70F
8872 posts
1/19/2020 11:06 am

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    First off, if a cake of assorted colors is the basis for assuming the girl is gay, that is pretty preposterous, isn't it? Sheesh..... I can remember having cakes and cupcakes of assorted colors for my kids and nobody thought anything about it back then. Guess it's a good thing we didn't have social media to post it on.
    I could never understand parents who turn their back on their children like some do. As for that school, if it has exclusions because of it's religious rules, then students must abide by those rules...… but to start an uproar over just a cake? Surely there must have been more?
My research confirms that it is likely more to the story than what the mother has disclosed and the school has confidentiality issues to deal with. The dilemma is balancing the Christian school's first amendment rights with the girl's civil rights. It is a private school so they don't have the same obligations that a public school would. My late husband told me about how he was expelled from Catholic school and was much happier in public school. I suspect that will be the same scenario for this child.

Abracadabra


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
1/19/2020 1:26 pm

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    First off, if a cake of assorted colors is the basis for assuming the girl is gay, that is pretty preposterous, isn't it? Sheesh..... I can remember having cakes and cupcakes of assorted colors for my kids and nobody thought anything about it back then. Guess it's a good thing we didn't have social media to post it on.
    I could never understand parents who turn their back on their children like some do. As for that school, if it has exclusions because of it's religious rules, then students must abide by those rules...… but to start an uproar over just a cake? Surely there must have been more?
There needs to be a "Take Back the Rainbow" movement.....