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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Feed My Sheep

...maybe they could expand their witchhunt to include allparents who supposedly engage in practices...

Witchhunt might be a teensy bit hyperbolic, don't you think?You're ascribing motives to them without evidence to support them. They were simply saying they didn't want to associate with these people. And the people who send their children to the school did consent to the rules beforehand.

You know, if you can't stand for your kids to be in contact with people different from yourself...

Once again, there is no evidence to suggest simple bigotry here. Homosexuality is still a serious sin in churches that have not become completely apostate.For the people involved, associating with them is no different than associating with any other sinner and they choose to reject the association.

The mistake the school is making, from a scriptural point of view, is that it is far more important to minister to the sick than to the healthy. The school could certainly have regulated the lesbians' behavior while on their campus to prevent any problems. If they disagreed with such regulation, they would have been free to go elsewhere. The important duty the school missed is to give the child more opportunity to hear the word of God. If the school did its job right, before God, the girl would realize the serious error of her “parents.” Who knows, maybe she could even get them to repent. I think the school missed its chance.

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