I recently read this article regarding a Muslim family who complained that the Catholic school policy for their daughter required her to not wear a headscarf.
Thankfully, the school was allowed to retain their policy.
But let's think carefully about this:
A Muslim family send their daughter to a Catholic school. Doesn't this just beg the question: why?!?
If the family held the school in high regard, why would they want the school's policies to change? To ask a school to change its policy (even on something which may seem trivial) shows a lack of respect for the school's reputation.
If the family wanted their daughter to have a Muslim education, why send her to a Catholic school?
Or is this just another opportunity to try to get Christian organisations shut down?
Or, if not shut down, to try to get Christian organisations to adapt their policies, making them slip away from their Christian principles?
(I know that a school uniform is hardly a 'Christian principle', but I'm using the slippery slope argument.)
Where is the common decency of, "This school has certain principles. If I want to send my child there, I should expect to follow them, or else go somewhere different."?
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