{"id":11605,"date":"2020-01-14T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:58:04","slug":"who-owns-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11605","title":{"rendered":"Who owns rainbows?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well. This is interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It seems that a young woman in Louisville, Kentucky (Albert the Pious’ fiefdom) has been expelled from a Catholic school there because she wore a rainbow-decorated shirt to her birthday-celebration dinner with her family, whereat she was given a rainbow-decorated cake.<\/p>\n

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Concluding that the photo, posted by the girl’s mother on Facebook, evidenced inadequate loathing of gay people — perhaps even sympathy<\/i> for the gay rights movement — Whitefield Academy expelled her.<\/p>\n

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The private school claims the picture is the latest in two years\u2019 worth of \u201clifestyle violations.\u201d In the email, Dr. Jacobson said the picture \u201cdemonstrates a posture of morality and cultural acceptance contrary to that of Whitefield Academy\u2019s beliefs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to hold my nose and come down on the side of the school.<\/p>\n

Granted, the average teenage girl is a sentimental idiot inclined toward hanging little glass unicorns and rainbows in windows, and I suppose it’s possible that she innocently wore the rainbow as a decoration that she likes — but I doubt that. Gays own the use of the rainbow as a political symbol no less than racists own the Confederate battle flag as a political symbol and, given that the school specifically condemns homosexuality, it simply isn’t believable that neither she nor her family knew that the clothing and the cake constituted a violation of the published rules.<\/p>\n

The club has the right to make and enforce its own rules. What is more, this is a well-known rule; I would expect<\/i> such a rule at a Catholic school. I would be startled to learn that a Catholic school did not<\/i> have such a rule. I think it’s a stupid rule grounded on ignorance, and I wonder why any sensible set of parents would want their daughter raised in such an environment — but that’s beside the point. No foul here that I can see, and the girl ought to be grateful that the school has done what her parents don’t seem to have the sense to do — get her out of that squalid pesthole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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