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Christian Wrong

Yeah, yeah, Iknow it's a private school and they can do what they want. But seriously. who wants to be associated with this type of thinking?

School Expels Girl for Having Gay Parents
Sep 23 7:05 AM US/Eastern

ONTARIO, Calif.

A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are lesbians, the school's superintendent said in a letter.

Shay Clark was expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.

"Your family does not meet the policies of admission," Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, the girl's biological mother.

Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday's edition.

Stob could not be reached for comment by the newspaper. Shay and her parents said they won't fight the ruling.

School administrators learned of the parents' relationship this week after Shay was reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game, Tina Clark said.

Clark and her partner have been together 22 years and have two other daughters, ages 9 and 19.

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"I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs." —George W. Bush

Our Government is an Idiot

FBI: Lennon too stoned to be a threat
By John Line, Metro
22 September 2005

John Lennon was dismissed as a Communist threat to the US only because he was always stoned, secret FBI papers revealed yesterday.

The ex-Beatles singer was thought to be a ringleader of revolutionaries plotting to hijack a Republican conference, the documents show.

But his drug-taking - which in the early 1970s included heroin, cocaine and marijuana - ultimately ruled him out of FBI inquiries.

Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball and Albert Einstein were also investigated as suspected Communists, according to the files, published for the first time.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the FBI kept many celebrities under close watch for links to radical politics, the mob, gambling, drink or drug abuse.

After seeming undecided about radicalism in his 1968 Beatles song Revolution, Lennon became more politically active after moving to New York in the early 1970s.

He hung out with activists such as Jerry Rubin and Abbey Hoffman, and recorded songs and joined marches for jailed drug offender John Sinclair and 'Black Panther' supporter Angela Davis. He also complained about having his phone tapped, as he struggled to win a US green card despite a British drug conviction.

Lennon was being watched shortly before the Republican National Covention of 1972, when Richard Nixon was approved as presidential candidate.

The ex-Beatle was hoping to extend his travel visa so he could 'engage in disruptive activities surrounding RNC', an agent claimed in the reports.

But while Lennon 'appears to be radically orientated', he 'does not give the impression he is a true revolutionist, since he is constantly under the influence of narcotics', the report says.

Monroe was investigated after rumours she might have applied for a visa to visit Russia.

Einstein was ruled out as a Communist but alarmed FBI agents because of his younger, more suspicious associates.

The Doors were investigated because so many people wrote to the FBI complaining about the band's 'filthy and vulgar' music.




 

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