A 14-year-old
student was expelled from a Southern California Christian
school because her parents are lesbian, the school's
superintendent said in a letter. Shay Clark was
expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.
"Your family does not meet the policies of admission,"
superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, the girl's
biological mother.
Stob wrote that school policy stipulates that at
least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral
or inconsistent with a positive Christian lifestyle,
such as cohabitating without marriage or in a
homosexual relationship," the Los Angeles Times
reported in Friday's edition. Stob could not be reached for
comment by the newspaper. Shay and her parents said they
won't fight the ruling.
School administrators learned of the parents'
relationship this week after Shay was reprimanded for
talking to the crowd during a football game, Tina
Clark said. Clark and her partner have been together 22
years and have two other daughters, ages 9 and 19.
(AP)
