Parents of students attending a New York Catholic school are angry that a former police officer
who served more than a decade in jail for killing a family of four in a drunken driving incident is now working at the school.
According to the paper, the pastor of St. Clare’s and the school’s principal wrote a letter to parents announcing the hiring of Gray.
It continues, "Since the legal system is satisfied with Mr. Gray’s return to work,
we believe he should be given the opportunity to do so, since ours is a faith of forgiveness and mercy."
The hiring didn’t sit well with a number of parents, who called the Advance to vent
their concerns about their children’s safety. They wouldn’t give their names.
“Who’s to say he’s not going to act out?” said one parent. “We don’t know what he’s capable of doing. ...
We can be merciful toward him, but I do believe that it’s a bad move to put him around children, especially small children.”
Hmmmmm, I'm not sure. I think that they don't tell the whole story in the paper. Such as, what was he dealing with? Was he depressed when he went on this spree? Considering he was a cop, there's a good chance I think.
I think one would have to look at circumstances first, before judging.
Yup. Brings up another good point, which is that those kids are around
more heinous sinners every day, and the sins more closely connected
with children. I know of a 44 year old Cath school teacher, very sweet
lady, way oversexed, just divorced, dating a 22 year old.
God does not need your help to do His job,
and HE forgave the guy 10 years ago.
What, you're afraid he's gonna run over
your kids?
Yup. Brings up another good point, which is that those kids are around
more heinous sinners every day, and the sins more closely connected
with children. I know of a 44 year old Cath school teacher, very sweet
lady, way oversexed, just divorced, dating a 22 year old.
God does not need your help to do His job,
and HE forgave the guy 10 years ago.
What, you're afraid he's gonna run over
your kids?
What is God's job, in this context?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
I don't think his drunken driving incident has anything to do with his ability to work in the vicinity of children.
If he is still drinking, that's another story.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
As long as he is not drinking or drunk on the job.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I don't think his drunken driving incident has anything to do with his ability to work in the vicinity of children.
If he is still drinking, that's another story.
Bingo! No need for me to post as the Brat has hit the nail on the head once again.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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