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Post by dividavi on May 26, 2017 2:19:48 GMT
Ah yes, Christian love in action. www.yahoo.com/news/christian-school-bans-apos-immoral-210300097.htmlChristian school bans 'immoral' pregnant teenager from attending her own graduation The Independent Andrew Buncombe•The IndependentMay 26, 2017 The 18-year-old said she would bring up the child with the help of her parents: Facebook A pregnant teenager - an honour student with straights As - has been branded “immoral” by her school and told she cannot attend its graduation ceremony. Officials at Heritage Academy, a private Christian school in Maryland, said Maddi Runkles, 18, was not welcome at the event because she had to be held “accountable for her immorality”. “Maddi is being disciplined, not because she’s pregnant, but because she was immoral,” David Hobbs, the school administrator, said in a statement.
I sat down w/ Heritage Academy Principal Dave Hobbs, who had this to say abt decision to bar #MaddiRunkles from graduation. “Heritage is also pleased that she has chosen to not abort her son. However, her immorality is the original choice she made that began this situation.” The teenager said she had originally considered having an abortion, but decided against doing so. She told the New York Times she considered herself “a practising born-again Christian”. She said she intended to raise her baby, a boy, with the help of her parents. She keeps a framed ultrasound picture next to her bed. The child’s father is not a pupil at the school. Her parents have supported her decision and have said they will organsise their own graduation ceremony for their daughter. “She has more guts than I have at 45 years old, to walk into school every day, to take the criticism that she takes, and to take it with grace that she takes it with. I think she’s got it together and I think she’s going to be fine,” her mother, Sharon Runkles, told CBS. Along with her parents, the 18-year-old told Mr Hobbs that she was pregnant. He told them he intended to inform the older students, pushing the teenager to tell her classmates herself. The school suspended the teenager for two days (Facebook) “I told on myself,” she said. “I asked for forgiveness. I asked for help.” She added: “I know at the end of the day that I made the right choice and in a couple months, I’ll have this little sweet reward just to remind me that I did the right thing.”
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Post by poelzig on May 26, 2017 2:22:08 GMT
Well Maryland is a liberal utopia so what do you expect?
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Post by bonerxmas on May 26, 2017 2:32:36 GMT
who is the father?
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Post by dividavi on May 26, 2017 2:49:35 GMT
Well Maryland is a liberal utopia so what do you expect? It's exactly what I expected. We've got a born-again Christian girl who likes to fuck and a bigoted school administration. Back in my day high school girls never got pregnant. Instead, they unaccountably vanished to live with relatives in some distant town; who knows why? Yes, they knew morality back then and, more importantly, how to be discrete.
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Post by poelzig on May 26, 2017 3:35:59 GMT
I've never seen that girl before.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 26, 2017 3:40:48 GMT
Meh, she broke the rules. you might as well get mad at people not graduating for getting F's in school. heritage-academy.net/
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Post by bonerxmas on May 26, 2017 3:49:55 GMT
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 26, 2017 4:02:42 GMT
Grace does not in any way omit discipline. On the contrary they work hand in hand. For example, they could apply that verse to the fact they gave her the diploma and was glad she didn;t abort the prekid. Now I don;t know or care whether this place was handling things appropriately t Scripture (I assume not since part of their mantra involves patriotism), but whether they are working in accordance to their rules. To me it seems like they are and that's one of the things you automatically accept when you choose to have your kid go to a religious private school. It's silly to think that a religious school should work should work identically to a public and secular school.If the kid who got knocked up didn't know what she was getting into going to that school, her parents sure did unless they're idiots. They are only whining now because it's their kid. It's not even news.
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Post by bonerxmas on May 26, 2017 4:14:56 GMT
Grace does not in any way omit discipline. On the contrary they work hand in hand. For example, they could apply that verse to the fact they gave her the diploma and was glad she didn;t abort the prekid. Now I don;t know or care whether this place was handling things appropriately t Scripture (I assume not since part of their mantra involves patriotism), but whether they are working in accordance to their rules. To me it seems like they are and that's one of the things you automatically accept when you choose to have your kid go to a religious private school. It's silly to think that a religious school should work should work identically to a public and secular school.If the kid who got knocked up didn't know what she was getting into going to that school, her parents sure did unless they're idiots. They are only whining now because it's their kid. It's not even news. well the verse does not support his reading of it
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 26, 2017 4:19:29 GMT
Grace does not in any way omit discipline. On the contrary they work hand in hand. For example, they could apply that verse to the fact they gave her the diploma and was glad she didn;t abort the prekid. Now I don;t know or care whether this place was handling things appropriately t Scripture (I assume not since part of their mantra involves patriotism), but whether they are working in accordance to their rules. To me it seems like they are and that's one of the things you automatically accept when you choose to have your kid go to a religious private school. It's silly to think that a religious school should work should work identically to a public and secular school.If the kid who got knocked up didn't know what she was getting into going to that school, her parents sure did unless they're idiots. They are only whining now because it's their kid. It's not even news. well the verse does not support his reading of it Only if you take the verse out of context. there are tons of scriptures that make it clear that there are repercussions for sin up to and including being kicked out of the Christian Church. Not walking on a stage is slight by comparison.
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Post by bonerxmas on May 26, 2017 4:27:18 GMT
well the verse does not support his reading of it Only if you take the verse out of context. there are tons of scriptures that make it clear that there are repercussions for sin up to and including being kicked out of the Christian Church. Not walking on a stage is slight by comparison. he took the verse out of context by citing that verse and only that verse as support for his statement, and that verse says nothing about effort, its pretty obvious he just cited a random verse and didnt think anyone would check, probably did what a lot of phonies do, just looked up a word in the concordance and cited one of the verse numbers listed next to it, you know people who do things like that will go to helll, and in hell they will probably be raped by devils like certain apocryphal mystic writings reveal
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 26, 2017 11:53:07 GMT
Only if you take the verse out of context. there are tons of scriptures that make it clear that there are repercussions for sin up to and including being kicked out of the Christian Church. Not walking on a stage is slight by comparison. he took the verse out of context by citing that verse and only that verse as support for his statement, and that verse says nothing about effort, its pretty obvious he just cited a random verse and didnt think anyone would check, probably did what a lot of phonies do, just looked up a word in the concordance and cited one of the verse numbers listed next to it, you know people who do things like that will go to helll, and in hell they will probably be raped by devils like certain apocryphal mystic writings reveal I don;t think that's entirely accurate. He referenced one verse to support what he thought was a correct decisions. It was sufficient to get his point across and the message would be muddled if all he did was cite a dozen scriptures when one would do. 2 Peter 3:18 is certainly talking about Christian efforts and so it fits regarding the point he was making - Grace from God and grace he needs to practice which he did from his perspective. As an aside, no one is going to hell to be raped by demons.
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Post by OldSamVimes on May 26, 2017 12:07:36 GMT
"As an aside, no one is going to hell to be raped by demons."
Speak for yourself. I got some demon love coming to me when I die.
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Post by kls on May 26, 2017 12:15:54 GMT
Just wondering-is the father another classmate and is he also going to be banned from attending graduation?
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 26, 2017 12:16:08 GMT
"As an aside, no one is going to hell to be raped by demons." Speak for yourself. I got some demon love coming to me when I die. That would just be a necrophiliac digging you up and you [probably] won't feel a thing.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 26, 2017 12:18:30 GMT
Just wondering-is the father another classmate and is he also going to be banned from attending graduation? OP's article said the father is not a student.
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Post by OldSamVimes on May 26, 2017 12:20:31 GMT
"As an aside, no one is going to hell to be raped by demons." Speak for yourself. I got some demon love coming to me when I die. That would just be a necrophiliac digging you up and you [probably] won't feel a thing. Nobody is digging me up. I'm getting cremated and at the climax of my funeral they're going to flush my ashes down the toilet.
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Post by kls on May 26, 2017 12:21:12 GMT
Just wondering-is the father another classmate and is he also going to be banned from attending graduation? OP's article said the father is not a student. Thanks. I skimmed too fast and missed that.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on May 26, 2017 17:38:16 GMT
Well that school sucks.
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Post by blade on May 26, 2017 17:53:20 GMT
The Student Pledge which every student from 5th grade through 12th grade signs states that this application of Philippians 4:8 “extends to my actions, such as protecting my body by abstaining from sexual immorality and from the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs”So the dishonest and sinister dividavi left this part out. Why are we not surprised?
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