Christian school kicks out 5-year-old because she got adopted by her lesbian aunts

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When Emily Parker’s brother died in a 2020 workplace accident at the age of 22, she adopted then-three-year-old child Zoey. Parker and her wife Jennie raised Zoey as their own and later enrolled her into a preschool at the Bible Baptist Academy (BBA) in DeQuincy, Louisiana.

They thought they’d made a perfect choice. Zoey made a lot of friends there and loved her teachers. But after the same-sex lesbian couple enrolled their now-five-year-old daughter into the school’s kindergarten classes the following year, a pastor contacted them for a meeting two days before classes were about to start.

At the meeting, he told them that, because of their “lifestyle choices,” they “wouldn’t be a good fit for the school,” the couple told AOL.com.

“She lost her father, she lost her mother and now she’s losing her school which she loves very much,” Jennie told WLBT.

Zoey’s father died in September 2020, and it took until last week, on August 3, for her adoption by her aunts to get finalized. Shortly after, they went to enroll her in kindergarten.

“We went to open house, we got the uniforms we got the fees,” Emily said. Word of Zoey’s new family got around and, over the weekend, the school’s principal and pastor held a meeting with the family.

“The pastor met us in the meeting room and started talking about gender identification and that they teach the words of the Lord and marriage was between a man and a women,” Emily said. “They didn’t think this was a good fit.”

It didn’t matter that Emily and Jennie are Christian, or that Zoey loved the school. The pastor told them they’d have to go elsewhere. He emphasized…

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