Idiot Nation.

Posted on 09/23/2005 at 5:18 pm by John Christian Plummer

Why are Americans so stupid? The lack of a good education is doubtless at the root of this particular evil. For instance, a school that would expel a kid for having gay parents. That’s not my kind of school. But it’s here in my home state of California.

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.

Yeah, that’s right: “Christian School.”

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.

Nowhere in the four Gospels does Jesus Christ say a thing about homosexuality. Paul says a few nasty things about “sodomites,” but that’s not Christ, that’s Paul. There is an argument to be made that Christ was, himself, gay, but make it at your peril. It can incur death threats, as playwright Terrence McNally found out.

Regardless of what kind of sex Jesus liked, why do these homophobes call themselves “Christians” and use Christianity as an excuse for their homophobia, when there is clearly no textual basis for it?

By the way, the little girl’s biological mom has been with her partner for 22 years, and they have 3 kids. This couple could probably teach something about happy marriage to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Henry Hyde and Newt Gingrich, among others.

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  • JB

    What a blasphemous smear job. Christ didnt say a lot of things but one thing He did say was that the greatest commandment was to love God with practically everything. Homosexuality is contrary to the nature of God. How can you love God while doing something contrary to His nature. You cannot comprehend the holiness of God.

  • Plummer

    I’m sorry, JB, but you can again explain HOW homsexuality is contrary to “the nature of God”? I mean explain it textually, based on the word of Christ from the four gospels. This is exactly the point of the post: don’t just SAY homosexuality is against the word of Christ, prove it to me. For instance, I could say that Christ hated dwarves, that dwarvishness is against the nature of God. Or that he hated people who pierced their ears. But then I’d have to back these claims up with some text, amigo. Can you do so?

  • http://notaprelude.blogspot.com TomChicago

    Dogmatists are never very good at reality. The enormous variety of nature is constantly being pruned into “good” and “evil” simply because it doesn’t fit with someones idea of “right”. The great forest of exotic blooms that is reality is always being shorn by taxonomists who simply can’t face the great abundance.

  • marie

    Actually if you read Romans 1:24-28 in the new testament of the Holy Bible you will see that it states that women with women and men with men is unholy. Paul wrote Romans, however just like the first 4 Gospels, the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God. If God didn’t teach it Paul would nothave written it. Either you believe all of The Bible or not. If you are a Christian you can not just pick & choose what you want to believe. The Bible doesn’t advocate hatred like man does, you are supposed to love everyone but hate the sin. That is not bigotry.

  • Scorpius

    At Marie:”Either you believe all of The Bible are no. If you are a Christian you can not just pick & choose what you want to believe.”Is that so? Then, you would agree to the following, correct?Exodus 21: This chapter says that we can sell our daughters into slavery. If it is in the Bible, then it is the word of God, and thus slavery, at least towards females, should be legal, right?Now, in Leviticus, the same book that in the Bible condemns homosexuality, chapter eleven CLEARLY states that anyone touching the skin of a dead pig is unclean. So, which team should we kill off first? The pros like the Raiders, or perhaps the team at the local high school?Or how about chapter 35 in Exodus, verse 2, allowing me to stone my father for doing his job on sundays. Why, according to this, we should kill everyone who doesn’t treat the Sabbath as a holy day of no work.Should a child be put to death for fighting back against an abusive father? Should my grandfather’s friends be stoned for planting multiple crops in the same field? We should all shun the poor little girls and boys who have no power over the fact that they were born out of wedlock? If my uncle merely suspects that his wife may be having an affair, should he burn her or drown her? Does my sister need to visit for me to burn my mom for sewing multiple colors together in a dress, or can my brother and I take care of it ourselves?Since ALL of the above are in the Bible, then they are the direct word of God and MUST be followed, right? If I believe that Jesus was the Son of God, I need to believe everything else, because it is all in the Bible? Right…On a sidenote to Plummer, I can’t agree with you more.

  • Rachel

    I agree. You can not pick and choose what you want to believe/follow. But Christians do all the time. Homosexuality is, according to the majority of Christians, against God and shouldn’t be tolerated…. And yet things that are ‘against God’, such as Divorce, are not only legal but tolerated all the time by Christians.I believe that if Homosexuality was such a horrible sin there would be 11 commandments, the 11th being something to the effect of “Thou Shall Not Be Homosexual” or there would be 8 deadly sins… The 8th being Homosexuality.But neither exists.But the verse that says to love your neighbor does exist…. And yet Christians refuse to show Homosexuals the love and acceptance that they show their Hetrosexual neighbors. They refuse to believe that they deserve the same rights and freedoms… But then who are they to be the judge of that? According to the bible, they are not supposed to judge ANYONE unless they themselves are without sin… And if they’re truly Christians, then they know that they never have been and never will be without sin. So they do not have the right to judge anyone.

  • MJ

    Scorpius,I think Marie and many other Christians might answer you by saying that the New Testament changes many things that were found in the Old Testament. In the New Testament Christ doesn’t advocate selling daughters into slavery. Exodus and Leviticus are Old law. Christ never did, however, say anything against the idea of slavery. In fact in Luke 12:47-48 Jesus tells us how to treat our slaves; “that servant . . . shall be beaten with many stripes.”God save us from Christians that aren’t selective about what parts of the Bible they choose to follow as God’s Law. For that matter, God save us from those that are selective but aren’t even aware of it.