Since The Lord Does Not Bless Sin

What happened when a child in school said that homosexuality is a sin.

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My technical difficulties have been sorted! I should have just googled the clip instead of whatever it was I did try to do. What am I talking about, you ask? A painful and frustrating phone call between a teacher/administrator from what seems to be called a “Christian” school, and the parent of a child in that institution. The parent, you can tell from the voice, comes from somewhere other than Great Britain. I would guess Africa, but I could be wrong. The teacher is native to England. I mention this because I feel like you could definitely add a bit of colonialism into the mix here, though that is not the issue at hand. The two are discussing a disciplinary issue relating to the child, Olivia, who has been given two days in something called an “Inclusion Room” for an incident in class. Ok—so, watch the whole thing and I’ll see you on the other side:

I don’t know about you, but as a parent, this was very stressful to listen to. I hate being in trouble myself, but somehow the feelings of anxiety compound by various magnitudes when something goes wrong with my children. The calm of this mother, for me, is exemplary. That she kept her cool and was so respectful, and yet was able to clearly articulate her own anger at the injustice of the situation is a lesson to me. This is the sort of posture every parent should adopt in this new age when faced with these sorts of troubles.

Which brings us to the issue at hand, the reason this little girl got sent to the “inclusion room” in the first place. Her teacher decided to bring up the law recently passed by Uganda’s parliament. The thing we must ask ourselves is, “Why would the teacher do that?” The parent is obviously asking this question, implicitly—why is that law being discussed in her daughter’s tutorial? And why, then, when her child is invited to, and then gives her own opinion, is she sanctioned for what she says?