The following is a statement from the 18-years-old Texan who was forced to leave Trinity Christian Academy, a private school, because of his sexuality and for running a website set up in the summer where teenagers struggling with the question of sexuality.  While UK Gay News knows the name of this young man, we are not identifying him as his web site does not give his name, and the Dallas Morning News does not identify him by name.  - Editor

Statement to press/new members/general public about my-boi.com and the actions taken for and/or against the site and owner

Welcome to my-boi.com!  More than likely you are coming to this site because you read about it online or in a newspaper; approximately 80% of our hits the past week have been from some sort of publicity this site has received.

There are some details that I feel need to be said and/or cleared up.  Multiple rumors that I personally have heard in the DFW metroplex are crude, and are comments that I do not appreciate.  This is a nasty, completely immature, and not classy.  If you are a media organization who is supporting this site for the reasons it exists, I thank you as well as the other members of administration.  If your media organization is “bad mouthing” us, I ask you to read our mission statement and review our procedures before criticizing them.  Also, if you decide to be crude in your comments to the general public, please express this is your opinion, which is biased from either lack of knowledge/ignorance or it is you yourself who has a problem with people unlike yourself.  Curb your insecurities.

This site exists for a support premise, although I will not deny it has been called a “dating service.”  I urge you to consider any other site out there, or night club which also exists for the same means.  Therefore, you have no right to judge a social gathering place.  We do not support or encourage “hook-ups.”  If an administrator learns that someone looking for hookups or a grotesqueness of that sort in their profile, their profile will be deleted.  We exercise the right to delete any picture or profile with or without reason.

The master plan for the site is not yet completed.  However, as our mission statement declares there are ways we have means to create for a deeper support system more than just being able to talk.  We have found that talking with people who are accepting of the matters is the best way to prevent negative issues from occurring (ie drugs/alcohol/suicide/etc).

On a personal note from myself, the owner; I do not believe what TCA did was right.  It was not Biblical; however, it was in their power.  Trinity has the right to expel me for looking at them the wrong way.  The issue was strictly political as the Dallas Morning News said, they did what they believed was best for the community.

In my opinion Trinity was doing what was best for their image.  They have displayed multiple times in my time at TCA places where they will turn their head to actions that they claim specifically in their handbook is wrong.  For instance, cheaters who are allowed to get by because their parents are large financial contributors to the school; or an instance where a girl was allowed to stay at TCA after being busted for drugs when her parents donated a new wing.  Not to mention further the 3rd party vendor which was double charging meals and pocketing the extra cast; TCA never recognized or responded to the problem.  Trinity claims that if you come to the school in seek of help they will not expel you.  What they fail to leave out is they will not expel you if the issue is kept “closeted” from the general Trinity public.

In all of this, a statement I made a few weeks ago is appropriate for the ending:

It is not my intention for this to reflect negatively on Christians or Christianity. I myself am a Christian, a strong one at that. While the acts of this school may not necessarily reflect the actions of a Christian community, I will assure you from what I have been told that this WAS NOT the feelings of the community. Unfortunately, TCA acted against the will of many students, parents and faculty. I ask that you do not hold this against Christians or their beliefs but if anything a mistake that has been made.

Thanks for the support I have received from many.  I wish you all happy holidays!

LINKS

my-boi.com Rainbow Room
Dallas Morning News article of December 21 (free resitration required to view)

22 December  2004