Tyler Frost took his girlfriend to her high school prom Saturday night over the objections of his own high school, Heritage Christian School, and was promptly suspended; he will not graduate with his class on May 24th because Heritage forbids dancing.
“At a prom there will be many young ladies who will be dressed in the current styles which would be low cut dresses and things like that and there will be dancing. How does a young man protect his mind and not have wrong thoughts or lustful thoughts in a situation like that,” said Heritage Christian School Principal Tim England.
One wonders whether Mr. England inflected a sneer into his voice when he used the word ladies in that context but, never mind — you can see the problem.
Happily, Sunday morning’s edition of the Findlay Courier made no report of a lust-maddened Christian visiting outrages upon the daughters of Hancock County, Ohio, so it appears that, as impossibly daunting as the circumstances may have been in Mr. England’s estimation, Tyler’s mind et cetera remained properly straight-jacketed. Congratulations!, then, to Tyler Frost for not succumbing to unimaginable depravities in the presence of decolletage, for sticking a finger in the eye of a pious nincompoop, and for giving his girlfriend a prom she’ll remember instead of a painful humiliation.
Maybe it’s just Mr. England who hasn’t any business at proms.
We can learn at the Heritage Christian School Web site just where Mr. England is coming from:
We believe that Adam and Eve, in yielding to the temptation of Satan, became fallen creatures.
We believe that all men are born in sin.
I would be allright with Original Sin if it were merely a poor, clumsy allegory about the injuries wrought by mens’ innate self-absorption and cowardliness, but in orthodox Christianity it is no such thing: It is taught to be an objective fact of reality that men are born depraved, guilty, under a just sentence of death in consequence of their irremediable foulness. As I once recorded vaudeville charlatan Ken Ham saying, “We don’t even deserve to be here.”
It is a teaching which degrades, enfeebles, and deforms men, which aims to cultivate self-loathing and the tractability of Gumby, and those who perpetrate miseries in its service are almost always themselves severely damaged human beings.
But not, I should add, sympathetic human beings; that comes only when they rise to shuck-off the damage rather than perpetuate it.
The school has also published on its Web site a letter sent home to parents regarding the worldwide ridicule now showering down on it, which reads in part:
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” Wow! I can build up a whole lot of rewards in heaven today, and so can you.
Goodness. “Ridicule” fits, but “revile”? Okay, maybe. “Persecute”? No. “Evil”? No. The school is being ridiculed, and that is about all, and deservedly so.
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You are correct. We should not allow people to follow the rules that they agreed to. I am sure that when Tyler signed up to attend this school, that he agreed to follow their rules. The heck with rules, lets all just do what we please, leaving behind us any conscience aspects and regret that we may have. Let us all just write our own rules so that the world may once again fall into oblivion. Perhaps we can also just print our own money, take someone’s house and run them out. Maybe we can also end all prison terms and then say, well, there may have been rules, but what the heck.
Well, now.
For starters, there is a legitimate question as to whether or not the reach of the “School Manual” extends to off-campus, off-hour activities approved by the student’s parents.
Second, it is disingenuous to point to the manual in any case. Mr. Frost agreed to nothing; he was 16, and he signed where the adults surrounding him told him to sign. It is only now, on the cusp of 18 and a high school graduate in all but name (thanks to some troubled educators) that he begins to approximate adulthood.
By my lights he is entering adulthood with an honorable decision that deserves respect. Seriously … would you think him a better man if he were the sort to betray a friend on command?
Regards,
Bob Felton
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We need more young men like Tyler amongst us.
A lot of Christians believe they are persecuted for the sake of the gospel when in reality they are being persecuted for being one huge, collective, pompous ass to the rest of the “world” around them.
Thanks for posting this Bob.
Tim