Apparently Kayla Kenney was expelled from Whitefield Academy here in Louisville because she posted a pic from her 15th birthday party that looked suspiciously like a rainbow cake. And that sweater just proves it . . .
So she sued the school. I can't find the end of the story - I suppose the lawsuit was delayed by COVID but I don't know.
Here is a much more detailed story - she was expelled, apparently, for two years of discipline infractions including an ongoing ‘campaign of gayness’, for lack of better phraseology. Not for just the cake.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
I have to agree with Meade; the courts often give religious based schools wide latitude to enforce their rules so long as they are generally enforced uniformly and their procedures are followed. there may be an argument that the rainbow cake and shirt show nothing re her support of gay persons or the lack hereof, but so long as the school follows it procedures in investigating and deciding on the penalty, the courts may well uphold it. Not that I agree with the school or its politics (I find them loathsome), but they are as entitled to their own beliefs as any other religious institutions. Indeed, I think she's much better off to be free of them.
Now if the school received public funds it would be quite different, but I see no evidence of this.
Agree with BigRR and Meade. It's a private religious school and it can have whatever stupid rules it wants as long as it is not receiving public funds.
What we have here is the difference between “can” and “should”. It’s bad optics for this offense to be the step too far” many of the reported others would have seemed more reasonable and if these people are as purposely disruptive as claimed I doubt they would have to wait long for something more fitting of the act.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
I don't think it's particularly "unfair" that she was expelled for whatever reason(s). Like I said, private schools are free to do what they want with respect to social conformity, that's presumably the reason people spend money to send their kids there. If she is out and open about being gay or bi or whatever and it doesn't conform to their particular model of "appropriate behavior," they can tell her to take a hike. Whether or not that may be a "good" decision -- in terms of either the community they are creating or the broader public's perception of it -- it is a decision they are free to make.
What we have here is the difference between “can” and “should”. It’s bad optics for this offense to be the step too far” many of the reported others would have seemed more reasonable and if these people are as purposely disruptive as claimed I doubt they would have to wait long for something more fitting of the act.
It's not "a step too far" (except in some journo's mind perhaps). It's a violation of an ultimatum:
The WA Administration has been made aware of a recent picture, posted on social media, which demonstrates a posture of morality and cultural acceptance contrary to that of Whitefield Academy’s beliefs (see the attached picture). Per our in-person meeting on October 17, 2019, we made it clear that any further promotion, celebration, or any other actions and attitudes that are counter to Whitefield’s philosophy would not be tolerated. As a result, we regret to inform you that Kayla is being dismissed from the school, effective immediately.
Rude little shits should be slapped down
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Come on Meade, the girl had a rainbow colored cake and work a rainbow colored shirt; that does not necessarily indicate anything about her support for a gay agenda. Sure, it may have been, but then, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
As for your "rude little shits" comment, please. like it or not, she is entitled to her own opinion on any issue, despite what those at Whitfield may believe. They can expel her when she acts contrary to school rules, but they should comply with their own procedures. Is everyone who eats a rainbow Italian ice also subject to dismissal?
Again, I think she is better off out of that school, but they accepted her and have an obligation to treat her in accordance with their rules and procedures.
Come on Meade, the girl had a rainbow colored cake and work a rainbow colored shirt; that does not necessarily indicate anything about her support for a gay agenda. Sure, it may have been, but then, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
As for your "rude little shits" comment, please. like it or not, she is entitled to her own opinion on any issue, despite what those at Whitfield may believe. They can expel her when she acts contrary to school rules, but they should comply with their own procedures. Is everyone who eats a rainbow Italian ice also subject to dismissal?
The American Conservative asserts that the student’s varied violations of the code of conduct were repeated over two years time and plentiful opportunity provided for corrective action by the student. Offenses includes vaping or carrying vaping (Juul) tools on campus, repeated social media postings regarding homosexuality/bisexuality, and allegedly advances of the homosexual AGENDA on school grounds by means of engaging other students in conversations about GAYNESS!
Much more than rainbow cake and clothing, this student is clearly a SINNER lost to God by her evil ways.
Repulsive thinking to be sure, but protected by the First.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
BSG--I won't argue that any of those allegations, if true, could have been the basis for dismissal, but for some reason she was not dismissed. What id oes appear is that her dismissal was coincident with her posting that picture, which may or may not be tied to support of some sort of homosexual agenda. Now the school may have other reasons for dismissing her, but those were not reported. Again, the school must comply with its own rules and regulations in her dismissal, and I doubt wearing a shirt or eating a cake with rainbow colors would rise to that level. Maybe it would, which says more about the idiocy of the school than anything your or I wrote.
Is their thinking protected by the fist amendment? I think so. But I think she is also entitled tot hte same due process the school would use in dismissing any other student. Maybe they have given her that due process, maybe not, but that was moy only point.
Agree with BigRR and Meade. It's a private religious school and it can have whatever stupid rules it wants as long as it is not receiving public funds.
But I would assume that Academy is certified by the state Department of Public Instruction (or whatever they call it in Kentucky) and the diplomas the graduates are issued carry just as mush weight as a diploma from the ordinary Louisville public schools ... so isn't that, in effect, a form of receiving public funds — or at least tacit public approval? -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
In the original story, the mother claimed that she just asked for a colored cake that would 'pop.' My color blind eyes did not register that the sequence of the rings on the cake exactly mirrored the rainbow flag.
Too much of a coincidence. The school had a right (NB - that is not the same as saying that they were right) to decide that she, the school and the other students might be better off if they parted ways.
The colours mirror the rainbow flag because that is the order of the colours of the rainbow. So after decades of Neanderthal whining that LGBT people have unjustly appropriated the rainbow for their sinful purposes, have we now reached the point where a rainbow can have absolutely no other association? Perhaps she chose it for its original biblical interpretation as a symbol of God's covenant with humanity.
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
Perhaps she chose it for its original biblical interpretation as a symbol of God's covenant with humanity.
My color blind eyes did not register that the sequence of the rings on the cake exactly mirrored the rainbow flag.
Of course then, her shirt did not--missing red and indigo and violet.
Again, the school can do what it wants, but it mshould be consistent.
But I would assume that Academy is certified by the state Department of Public Instruction (or whatever they call it in Kentucky) and the diplomas the graduates are issued carry just as mush weight as a diploma from the ordinary Louisville public schools ...
Perhaps, I really don't know. But so are home schoolers. There is no requirement for any person or entity to accord any of them the same weight under any law I am aware of. At least anymore than a degree from Yale is accorded the same weight as a degree from Connecticut Community College.
As an aside, when did the rainbow become a gay symbol? I ask because in the mid 70s I stuck a small rainbow decal on the back window of my VW Bug. Was I unknowingly supporting gay people? Not that there’s anything wrong with that but maybe I unknowingly nullified my chick magnet self.
The original Pride rainbow flag was created in 1978 (and modified since), so in the mid 70s you were probably safe (although you were likely turning "chicks" off for other reasons).
The original Pride rainbow flag was created in 1978 (and modified since), so in the mid 70s you were probably safe (although you were likely turning "chicks" off for other reasons).
Who? Me?
Are you suggesting that the chicks might have been turned off by my puka shell necklace and aftershave lotion and may have noticed my chest hair was fake?
As an aside, when did the rainbow become a gay symbol? I ask because in the mid 70s I stuck a small rainbow decal on the back window of my VW Bug. Was I unknowingly supporting gay people? Not that there’s anything wrong with that but maybe I unknowingly nullified my chick magnet self.
Now that we know the ONLY ONE TRUE significance of all things rainbow-shaded, I guess this means I was gay-friendly before it was cool to be gay-friendly – because for almost twenty years during the 1980s and 1990s I was a card-carrying member of the Rainbow Cyclists of Waterloo/Cedar Falls, IA. The 'OFFICIAL' story was that it was named after Rainbow Drive, which at that time was the main cycling route between the two communities https://www.cedarvalleycyclists.org/our-history/
Incidentally, Rainbow Drive itself was named in honor of the 42nd Infantry Division — the 'Rainbow Division', so called because when it was originally formed in 1917 it was created from National Guard units that were not already attached to a division. These units came from 26 different states as well as the District of Columbia. Douglas MacArthur, who was the 42nd Division’s Chief of Staff, said that this diverse unit would "stretch over the whole country like a rainbow," leading to the nickname. -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
