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Hey, Master’s School, what would Jesus do?

Guest Columnist

Published: Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Updated: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 16:09

As it turns out, a Christian school in West Simsbury, Conn., recently exiled a high school senior for being gay. Yes, gay! It's completely and utterly wrong.

In a recent article of current events from Nerve.com, the story of Rachel Aviles was brought to light. Aviles, along with some other students, were pretending to be married and seen "holding hands." The school followed up with its own "Gestapo-style investigation," later determining that it was best to kick the student out.

What?

Please, somebody take my vital signs because I'm about to go through the roof.

The school is privately run and preaches an interesting philosophy, which really does show a correlation between Christianity and education. Furthermore, the version is extra special.

I found the mission statement most entertaining. If others can't see the same "counterfeit hypocrisy" that I did, perhaps I will need cataract surgery after all.

"Our mission is ‘Education from the Inside Out.' Simply put, we recognize that God has created each child with a unique set of gifts, abilities and needs, and that in light of that design he has a unique purpose and calling for each one."

Virtuous read, isn't it? I hope you raised your eyebrows the way I did. How can a so-called "Christian school" practice and preach such prejudice? I would never suggest that all Christians are bad people. Remember, we are talking about a teenager who committed no crime?

All ye in favor of yes, she committed the crime of homosexuality and it's unacceptable, raise your right hand. All ye in favor of no offense committed raise your left hand. Did Jesus teach prejudice, hate and bigotry? I think not, unless you're The Master's School in West Simsbury, that is.

Continuing significant research is already underway to prove a genetic link that possibly explains why people are gay.

In 1993, Dr. Dean Hamer and his team conducted a study of various families using DNA from homosexual siblings. He was able to locate a marker on the X chromosome maternally linking those to what he called the "Xq28," or "gay gene."

To break down his findings even further, the "gay gene" is carried by females. Oh, great! Let's put all the blameworthiness on our mothers. "Thanks, Mom. You made me gay." Not so hastily — the Xq28 stretch of gene has not yet been proven. My point being, when this gene is officially the culprit of indifference, where does that leave the Rachel Aviles' of the world?

Who will the schools pick upon then? Apologies all round for hundreds of years of persecution and narrow-mindedness across the board. Yeah, I'd like to see that pig fly.

The only comforting resolve I personally retrieve from this sad story is indeed irony. Of the countless "gay" children that sit in your classrooms today, eventually one will flourish in science.

One will push the limits of both church and genetics beyond the blackboard, and who knows — maybe disentangle that Xq28 code and end this century's crusade of hatred.

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10 comments

Anonymous
Mon Sep 26 2011 14:07
That whole link between genes and being gay was disproven years ago. I tried posting a link to the study but it wouldn't let me so here's the citation info.

Male Homosexuality: Absence of Linkage to Microsatellite Markers at Xq28

George Rice, Carol Anderson, Neil Risch, and George Ebers

Science 23 April 1999: 284 (5414), 665-667. [DOI:10.1126/science.284.5414.665]

That being said, even tho there's no genetic cause of homosexuality, that doesn't make it a choice and it doesn't excuse the actions of that school.

Anonymous
Sun Sep 25 2011 12:48
"Exiled? Do you mean expelled?"

I believe she was being creative. And there are a lot of older people going to school/returning to school these days, especially in this economy.

Anonymous
Sun Sep 25 2011 12:16
Exiled? Do you mean expelled?

Also, why is an old lady writing for a college newspaper?

Anonymous
Sun Sep 25 2011 12:13
That gene doesn't cause people to be gay. It just increases the likelihood that they would be gay when exposed to certain hormones.
Straight dude
Thu Sep 22 2011 20:59
" It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man." ~
John Lennon
Anonymous
Thu Sep 22 2011 19:54
"If the gene can be isolated we can eliminate homosexuality from the world altogether!"

Too bad science hasn't isolated the idiot gene so can eliminate you.

Anonymous
Thu Sep 22 2011 18:52
A gene linked to homosexuality?!?! I knew it! If homosexuality is linked to a gene and not a choice, then it is clearly a mental illness! Just as schizophrenia and myriad other psychological problems are hereditary. This is great! If the gene can be isolated we can eliminate homosexuality from the world altogether! What reason would we have not to? Ain't science grand!
Anonymous
Thu Sep 22 2011 17:33
Good article.
Good article . I did not know about ( Xq28 ) ???? Thank you Lady for this information.
I will need to do some reading.

Mike - USA

GAY AND PROUD
Thu Sep 22 2011 17:11
Me one is GAY and proud!
If God created all of us, and he didn't want us to be gay, then why on earth are we here? And don't give me that load of crap that "it's a choice" because is not. Being gay is not a choice, is the way you were born.
God is the almighty one, if he didn't want us around then we wouldn't be, since he's accepting us, who the heck you think you are to judge us?
To be honest I'm kinda sick of the churches hating and blaming the gays, when they are actively covering up the biggest paedophile ring in the world... yes you read that right. They can molest your kids at Sunday schools and cover it up, but they preach against gays... go figure...
The Netzarim, Ra'anana, Israel
Thu Sep 22 2011 04:19
I'm weary of people who can't read the first word of the Torah (it's Hebrew & Aramaic) pretending to ask what a 1st century Pharisee Jewish Ribi, who considered Torah the only Bible, would do.
In fact, EVERY person today who pretends to cite WWJD ignores and contradicts the historical Christian view up to as recently as the last century! Even those with a semblance of education in Christian "history" cite the version of Jesus legislated by the wildly misojudaic, 2nd-4th century Hellenist gentile Church that taught the complete displacement (with the NT) and contradiction of the Judaic teachings of any 1st-century Pharisee Ribi.
The historical fact, documented by historians like the late Oxford scholar James Parkes (The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue), is that Jzeus (misspelled per Ex. 23.13; Dt. 12.3 and Josh. 23.7) is the bizarro-world, make-over product of 2nd-4th century Hellenist (antinomian = anti-Torah) Christian Church redactions--180�� opposite to the 1st century historical, pro-Torah Jewish Pharisee Ribi.
This means that Christians who cite Jzeus are referring to the Christ-image emanating from historical 4th century Christianity--i.e., Constantine and the bishops of the Hellenist Christian Church of the Roman Empire. What Christians are, unknowingly, REALLY asking is what would the Church of Constantine do?
In fact, Ribi Yehoshua taught Torah in synagogues: Torah prohibits the practice of homosexuality as an abomination. THAT is what the historical Ribi Yehoshua taught!!!
If you want to know what the 1st-century historical Pharisee Ribi Yehoshua taught, learn the principles of of keeping Torah from those who know how to read it before presuming to speak for a 1st-century Pharisee Ribi.
(For further info, see www.netzarim.co.il)




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