These Schools Get Millions of Tax Dollars to Discriminate Against LGBTQ Students
It’s seriously wrong for tax dollars to fund fundamentalist christian right-wing madrassahs, and I’m sick and tired of it. It’s also seriously dangerous; just consider how Pakistan changed between the 60’s and the present. Stewardesses for Pakistan International Airlines wore uniforms that were modern, now they wear near burqa outfits. The posts at All Things Pakistan that demonstrated this have been altered to remove the pictures because it’s too dangerous for the blog to show those nowadays. Here’s a pic of one of the 1960’s ads however
Her great-grandmother and guardian, Doris Thompson, 74, didn’t know how to tell Sunnie she wasn’t allowed back at the school. Administrators didn’t want her there. In a 2014 letter to Thompson that essentially expelled Sunnie, the school referenced several passages from the Bible as to why they wouldn’t take her back. They suggested Sunnie wasn’t acting “Christlike” by wearing her hair short and preferring pants to skirts.
Sunnie was 8 years old. She wasn’t traditionally feminine enough for them.
Timberlake Christian Schools in Virginia is one of over at least 700 religious schools in America currently receiving public money while openly advertising and practicing anti-LGBTQ policies, HuffPost has found in a new investigation.
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