If you have ever been in charge of a large team of people, it is likely that you’ve had to provide a group lunch. A favorite go-to meal in these situations is pizza because who doesn’t enjoy a good “Pizza Party” whether you are 8 or 80? The standard is usually pepperoni, but you can’t forget the cheese only crowd, and even the ham and pineapple set.
Once you got that covered you must account for the non-pizza lover squad members, so throw in a large salad or two, a few orders of wings (plain, mild, and hot) for good measure, and a plate of chocolate chip cookies for those that just want to skip straight to dessert and your pizza party is complete right?
How did I do? Did you see that?
We didn’t need to leave out the pizzas to accommodate the salad fans, we added salad. There was something for everyone but at the expense of no one. Celebrating a “Pizza Party” by offering just wings and cookies isn’t a pizza party is it?
Inclusiveness is not achieved through substitution and subtraction - in fact that is the opposite. Inclusion has to offer the full menu, not just the parts you prefer. If it doesn’t it is exclusion.
Removing the pizza from the “Pizza Party” to include non-pizza items; well, it is like removing Mothers from Mother’s Day to include Fathers. It’s not inclusion, it is selective exclusion to suit one taste at the expense of others.
Cynthia Fain
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So if I’m reading this right, the salad is the *book about a girl with 2 dads that live together.
* Stella Brings The Family
Comparing food with God mandated morals is exactly what’s got our schools where they are today.
If you truly love the children, teach them Truth and stop grooming them for a world that’s turned from God.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Come out from among them and be separate.
Michael Burns
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As John Lydgate once wrote or said.......
"You can please some of the people all the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all the people all of the time."
Phil Snider