At a conference I was at recently one of the speakers who was talking on the public school system really bothered me and I have been for quite sometime trying to figure out what it was I did not like about her and if it was founded. I think I figured it out and it is two fold.
First and the biggest thing is this, instead of talking about the problems in the public school system as a warning to Christians of something to be careful about with their children and the children they interact with she spoke as if it was something that MUST be fixed. While I agree the public school system is in trouble and the lack of acceptance of the Christian faith (whether this is real or not I can’t say) is not necessarily the best possible situation for kids, I don’t agree that we have a right and I feel that is what she was pushing. Instead of sympathy and sadness for the direction of the public school system she spoke as if we had a right for it to be different as if Christians deserve to be accepted as if our desires were what are important in the system and I simply don’t agree. As Christians we should not cling to our rights, we should love this world and do our best to improve it.
Secondly a huge of her talk was on how homosexuality was becoming completely accepted in the public school system. I think this is really sad but I also think that as Christians we tend to pick out homosexuality as a super sin. Why do we get so much more angry and passionate about homosexuality than other sins (but this is another topic for another post.)
Anyway I think I am fairly justified in my frustration with this speaker but I would love to hear any thoughts.