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<DIV><FONT size=2>The article below "<STRONG>Texas school rejects 4-year-old
over lesbian parents</STRONG>" raises some interesting questions:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Would they reject children with one or more:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Adulterous parents?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Parents who lie?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Parents that steal?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Or break any of the thousands of other proscriptions in the
Bible?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>What about illegitimate children?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>And what about children of a pastor who:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Lies to, steals from, defrauds, manipulates, etc his own
congregation? Who is an adulterer? Who claims authorship of books
basically written by a ghostwriter? Who spends millions on
self-monumenting/self-aggrandizing projects but clearly doesn't love Jesus/God
enough to build a church to worship in?</FONT></DIV>
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<H1>Texas school rejects 4-year-old over lesbian parents</H1>
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<DIV class=cnnbyline>By <B>the CNN Wire Staff</B></DIV>
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<DIV><B>STORY HIGHLIGHTS</B></DIV>
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<LI>Anglican school cites church's "clear teaching" for denial</LI>
<LI>Moms say there was no problem until they attended parents' night</LI>
<LI>"The God that I love will love me and love my children no matter
what"</LI>
<LI>The school's dean says it has been strict in other
cases</LI></UL></DIV></DIV>
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<LI><A href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Christianity"
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<LI><A href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Texas"
target=_blank>Texas</A></LI></UL></DIV></DIV>
<P><B>(CNN)</B> -- A private religious school in Texas has denied admission to
the daughter of a lesbian couple who wanted to enroll the child in preschool,
citing its "clear teaching of the Christian faith" for the refusal.</P>
<P>In a statement e-mailed to CNN sister network HLN, the dean of St. Vincent's
Cathedral School in the Dallas suburb of Bedford, Texas, said the school is
standing on its principles "in matters of marriage and sex outside of marriage"
by refusing to seat 4-year-old Olivia Harrison.</P>
<P>"St. Vincent's School as a ministry of St. Vincent's Cathedral upholds the
clear teaching of the Christian faith, the Holy Bible, and the Anglican Church
in North America," the Rev. Ryan Reed said.</P>
<P>"We based our decisions about enrollment on what is best for the children of
St. Vincent's as a whole and in conformity with the above standards," he said.
"We regret the disappointment the mother feels, but also do not understand why
she would want to enroll her child in a school that would undercut her own
personal values at home."</P>
<P>Olivia's mother, Jill Harrison, told HLN's "Prime News" that was fine with
her.</P>
<P>"I absolutely would not want her to partake in a school where they did not
believe or condone the relationship that we have together," she said.</P>
<P>St. Vincent's is part of a conservative movement that broke away from the
U.S. Episcopal Church in 2008, in part over the Episcopal church's positions on
gay and lesbian rights. The Anglican Church in North America claims about
100,000 adherents.</P>
<P>In a follow-up e-mail, Reed said that the school had no problem with a single
mother, "lesbian or not, living chaste" -- but said St. Vincent's has taken a
hard line in other cases. He said it has rejected an earlier preschool applicant
who came from a gay household, fired an unmarried teacher who became pregnant
and removed a man "from leadership roles in the school" after he left his wife
for another woman.</P>
<P>Reed said Jill Harrison had told the school's admissions director she was
going through a divorce. But Jill Harrison told HLN that she had listed herself
as Olivia's mother on the application and put her partner's name down as a
mother as well, after scratching out "father" on the application.</P>
<P>She and her partner, Tracy Harrison, said the school appeared to have no
problem with admitting Olivia until after they attended a recent parents' night
at the school.</P>
<P>Tracy Harrison said she was raised in a strict Baptist home, she and her
partner thought St. Vincent's could give Olivia a good education and impart "the
basic Bible teachings ... follow the Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, be kind
to your neighbor."</P>
<P class=cnninline>"The God that I know and the God that I love will love me and
love my children no matter what," she said.</P>
<P class=cnn_strycbftrtxt>HLN's Tracey Jordan contributed to this
report.</P></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>