Gleanings

Here are two items from the Oct. 7, 2005 issue of the news magazine THE WEEK.

A Christian high school in California has expelled a girl for having gay parents. Leonard Stob, superintendent of the Ontario Christian School, sent a letter to the home of Shay Clark, 14, explaining that because Clark's mother, Tina, lives with another woman, "your family does not meet the policies of admission." School policy, Stob said, prohibits students' parents from engaging in behavior "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian lifestyle."

[It was a bad week for] Angels, after Ashley Smith, the Atlanta woman who said in March she persuaded escaped killer Brian Nichols to surrender by reading to him from Christian best-seller The Purpose-Driven Life, finally admitted that she also gave Nichols a little crystal meth from her private stash.