I support freedom of association, and the right of private schools to choose their students, but look at this case:
FOREST, Va. — Eight-year-old Sunnie Kahle likes to keep her hair short, wear boys’ clothes, collect hunting knives and shoot her BB gun….to Timberlake Christian School administrators, the second-grader’s boyish ways warranted an ultimatum: Start acting like a girl or find another school.
Source: http://www.telegram.com/article/20140328/NEWS/303289601/1052
I get the clothes, but is it a crime for a girl to like BB guns and hunting knives? Is she supposed to wait for her knight in shinning armor to save her life? I have a niece, she’s all-girl but I’m hoping at some point in her life she’ll learn to shoot guns or at least martial arts (my sister is a bit of a liberal).
Principal Becky Bowman wrote that “we believe that unless Sunnie as well as her family clearly understand that God has made her female and her dress and behavior need to follow suit with her God-ordained identity, that TCS is not the best place for her future education.”
Today’s modern woman serves in the military, they work outside the home, Becky Bowman herself is not barefoot and pregnant while her man brings home the bacon.
Other disputes over gender expression at school have made headlines recently, including a demand, later rescinded, that a 9-year-old North Carolina boy cease carrying a My Little Pony backpack to school. But that case and others involved public schools rather than private religious academies that are not subject to anti-discrimination laws.
I’m surprised they rescinded, that backpack is far worst than hunting knives and BB guns. You can’t fight a pedophile trying to kidnap you with My Little Pony.