School Expels Girl
for Having Gay Parents
By AP from the
NYTimes on the Web, September 23, 2005
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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