For Kayla Kenney’s 15th birthday party at a Texas Roadhouse, her mother asked for a cake with colors that ‘pop’. A rainbow cake was provided and Kimberly Alford posted this charming photo of the youngster about to tuck in. Someone at her school, Whitefield Academy in Louisville, spotted the photo on social media, and Kenney was expelled for the “posture of morality and cultural acceptance” the cake represented.
Alford alleges the seemingly innocuous photo caused Kayla to be expelled from Whitefield Academy, a private Christian school in Louisville, where her daughter was a freshman. In an email to the family on Jan. 6, the academy’s head of school, Bruce Jacobson, wrote that Kayla’s enrollment was terminated, effective immediately, because of a social media post.
Alford said an image of her Facebook post was included as an attachment to the email.
“The WA Administration has been made aware of a recent picture, posted on social media, which demonstrates a posture of morality and cultural acceptance contrary to that of Whitefield Academy’s beliefs,” Jacobson wrote. “We made it clear that any further promotion, celebration or any other action and attitudes counter to Whitefield’s philosophy will not be tolerated.”
Alford says neither the cake nor Kenney’s jumper were a statement on sexuality. The school didn’t respond to the Washington Post’s inquiries, but told a local news channel Kenney had committed other “lifesyle violations” in the past, without elaborating. According to her mother, that infraction was for vape pods found in a bag search.
It strikes me that there’s now an ecology of bakers, seamsters, varsity photographers, etc., refusing to do rainbows because rainbows are gay.