School Expels Girl for Having Gay
Parents
Yahoo News/AP
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 1
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