Cakes...why is it always cakes...

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/01/14/kentucky-christian-school-expels-girl-gay-rainbow-cake-mom-says/4418756002/

A Christian school in Louisville expelled a student last week after her family said school officials discovered the girl had celebrated her birthday with a rainbow-themed cake.

Kimberly Alford told The Courier Journal that until Jan. 6, her 15-year-old daughter had been a freshman at Whitefield Academy, a private school at 7711 Fegenbush Lane that serves students in preschool through 12th grade.

That's when Alford said she received an email from Whitefield Academy's head of school, Bruce Jacobson, explaining how her daughter was being expelled "immediately due to a post on social media."

Alford had recently posted a photo on her Facebook page showing her daughter celebrating her birthday in late December at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant. In the photo, the girl is wearing a sweater featuring a rainbow design and sitting by a colorful, rainbow-themed cake.



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Funny how the mom didn't seem to have a problem with the school's Christian beliefs and policies as "judgmental" until she and her family are snared by those idiotic policies themselves.

Exactly. It's all okay until it happens to you. So many are completely devoid of empathy until they need it for themselves.

Nothing like tripping over your own bigotry.

And "it's all okay until it happens to you."

I lived that. I have to admit I was a bigot until it happened to me. Now I look around and see so many people who have no idea that they have gay family members and you know reality is going to catch up with them.

That is one of the things that has been a real positive for my situation is that my family and friends have gay family members and they are very accepting of those who are gay. My sister's grandson is gay and she made sure she was teaching in the schools he was in in middle school and high school so he had her support. He is well accepted by the whole family.

didn't god create rainbows?

Yeah. God created rainbows as a sign that He wouldn't drown everybody again (how thoughtful).

Maybe that kind of Christian isn't happy with that decision so they don't want rainbows around. (j/k)

I'm always amazed at how important symbols become to us.

Then God, too, must be expelled for violating school policy. Who does he think he is anyway?

Was the student expelled because of the rainbow sweater and rainbow cake?

The message only says "immediately due to a post on social media."

Was this the post that got her expelled or some other post?

Was her Road House post showing her drinking alcohol, that'll get a 15 year old expelled.

To me, many are jumping to conclusions without a hint of any facts.

> To me, many are jumping
> to conclusions without
> a hint of any facts.


Certainly, your concern that a leap has been made "...without a hint of any facts" is not supported by the event and the article.

We are taking it on faith that the claim that she was a student at the institution is true. We are also taking it on faith that the claim she was expelled is true. After all, there is no story without these two alleged facts.

Next, we are taking it as true that the expulsion was due to a posting made on a social media site under her control. Again, this is necessary in order to reach a point that finally allows the controversy to take place.

See? We have a lot more than "...a hint of facts."

Where the incredulous should become vocally active is on the citation of the rainbow sweater and rainbow cake being the 'posting' that caused the first three 'facts' to be germane.

We truly don't have the data points necessary to be assured it was that particular post. Maybe there's a post on her Tweeter feed that promotes the Nazi Party, or the overthrow of Louisville city council!!

One might assume that ALL her recent social postings have been scrutinized and reasonable minds reached the conclusion that it had to be the Rainbow post that did it. I don't think it's too farfetched to imagine that people were curious about her social postings and that a number of people went through all her posts.

We know her name and so finding her social posts online wouldn't be hard. I'm too lazy to follow up on this in that regard. So I've fallen prey to the syndrome you're preaching against, I'm assuming that the consensus reached by family, as portrayed in the article, is correct.

And there's also the likelihood that if the conclusion reached is incorrect, the school would have straightened everybody out.



You're welcome!

Maybe you missed the word “Kentucky”.

Yup!

“A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc.” (Wiki)


“Rainbows normally appear from the rain, but they can happen wherever light is being bent inside of water droplets. Rainbows can be seen in mist, fog, spray, and dew. Rainbows are made up of all seven colors that come from light. These colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.” (Random Net search result)


Rainbow Facts for Kids:

https://www.coolkidfacts.com/rainbow-facts/

Excerpts:

“Rainbows are considered to be one of nature’s most special gifts. They have also inspired many poems, songs, and other types of art. What is it about these gorgeous arches that make us love them so much?"

“Rainbows are formed when light shines through water, like when the sun shines through the rain. This light is bent and reflected, like a reflection in a mirror, and this causes all of the amazing colors that you see."

“Rainbows normally appear from the rain, but they can happen wherever light is being bent inside of water droplets. Rainbows can be seen in mist, fog, spray, and dew."

“Rainbows are made up of all seven colors that come from light. These colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet."

“... what makes rainbows so special is that no two people see the same exact thing. Since it all depends on how the light is being bent and reflected back to you, everyone sees something different."

“Someone who looks like they are standing right underneath it to you will actually be looking at the rainbow and seeing it from far away."

“Rainbows are beautiful sights that most people enjoy and admire. They are made up of amazing colors that inspire poems, art, and songs."

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Rainbows. What's not to love?

Beautiful symbol. Even descriptions of a rainbow (as above) are lyrical and lovely.



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Maybe she likes science and the cake was just the colors of the spectrum....red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet....a convenient way to remember the colors is the name "Roy G Biv"....which I learned while getting a bachelor of SCIENCE degree.

Haha - I just figured out your board name when I was looking up the kids' info re rainbows.

Very clever. :)

Then I wondered if you had a hidden message in your name choice but now I see it was a mnemonic you used in your studies.

Interesting. Light dawns every day around here.

No hidden message other than the colors of the spectrum :)

So are rainbows evil now? And if the spectrum identifies as a rainbow, does that make it evil? What if a rainbow identifies as the spectrum? So confusing!

Roy G Biv Wrote:
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> What if a rainbow identifies as the spectrum? So
> confusing!

I'm on the spectrum.

So there you are, Mauve!

Mauvalous Dahling!

Mauve is a pale, bluish purple that sits between violet and pink.

Mauve =

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/tessa-violet.html

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/princes-purple-downpour-a-review-of-the-expanded-purple-rain?verso=true

https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/music/pink-singer-hollywood-walk-of-fame-5554806/

Mix well.

Mauve.

What about mauve?

"There is no purple light in a rainbow. ... The Violet in ROYGBIV, the mnemonic many people use to remember the colors in a rainbow, is a misnomer, says Henry Reich of Minute Physics in the video above. The reason we say violet is because Isaac Newton said violet, but when Isaac Newton said violet he really meant blue."

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiJq7GU2IbnAhX2CjQIHf5PCB4QFjACegQIDRAH&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2Fsmart-news%2Frainbows-dont-include-purple-light-so-why-do-they-sometimes-seem-180953190%2F&usg=AOvVaw1O6wzUDRECCQsUsdnWvrwc


So even Isaac Newton made mistakes.

Good to know...

>> What about mauve?

Beatrice Arthur died in 2009.

If you see them could you pick up my eyeballs, which are rolling down the street?

LOL, LW - that is something my cherished English aunt would say!

I like her already!

I hope I don't step on them and fall, but if I do, you should have seen it coming.

So that's what happened to Nightingale's aunt?

She's looking at the bottom of my shoe.

Roy G Biv Wrote:
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> Maybe she likes science and the cake was just the
> colors of the spectrum....red, orange, yellow,
> green, blue, indigo, violet....a convenient way to
> remember the colors is the name "Roy G
> Biv"....which I learned while getting a bachelor
> of SCIENCE degree.

Science has no place within the walls of a religious school. So perhaps you are right, her interest in science is what got her expelled.

>> Science has no place within the walls of a religious school. So perhaps you are right, her interest in science is what got her expelled.

I can see her standing up in class and making a statement about the science of rainbow's, followed by the teacher saying "stop being smart with me and get back in your seat!"

that cake is from Safeway, I had the same exact one in an ombre shade. I like the rainbow. I wore a lot of rainbows when I was 6 in 1981, so does that make me gay. I'm 44 female and never had a boyfriend. I don't know.. Rainbows I think are god made just like everthing else in nature. I like God, So I guess that makes me a an evil person. NOT. I 'm the nicest person you will ever meet, God never made me evil

On a bright note, it sounds like just about any other school she chooses to attend will be an improvement.

Who'd want to send their kids somewhere that feels they have a right to insert themselves into a persons life away from school?

Sweetheart, enjoy your rainbow cake. As for the divine school administrators, let them eat shit.

the more things change, the more they stay the same

she got kicked out of private Christian school? this is great! freedom, begins, now stay out and avoid, at least some indoctrination. Plus it's not really an LGBT rainbow anyway, maybe she just loves unicorns and rainbows, or heck maybe the rainbow is God's promise that he will never kill almost all of humanity by drowning again. geez, time to get with the times.Churches wonder why membership is dwindling amongst the younger generation, well derr!

What if someone has a CoExist shirt? and wears it to the mall or pancake house , oh my OH MY!



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Pure evil!

Since when are Texas Steakhouse resturants on school grounds? haha, preposturous



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I guess that part of the Old Testament is ignored at that school, where the rainbow was God's promise not to flood the earth again.

Back in the news..... family now suing the school for expelling their daughter.


https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/parents-teen-expelled-christian-school-rainbow-sweater-cake-suing

Appropriately.