A Louisiana five-year-old was allegedly forced out of her kindergarten class at a religious school because her parents are a same-sex couple.

Emily and Jennie Parker said they were informed by school officials at the Bible Baptist Academy in DeQuincy, Louisiana, during a meeting with the school’s director and a pastor that their same-sex relationship did not follow the teachings of the school and that they would need to find a new school for their daughter, Zoey.

“We got called into the principal’s office for a meeting, they informed us that Zoey wouldn’t be able to go to school there anymore because of our lifestyle choices,” said Jennifer Parker, 31, to KPLC, a local news affiliate.

Emily Parker, 28, said that the meeting took place only two days before the school year started. During the conference, she and her wife also were told that, as a religious-based school, the school would teach students that marriage was between a man and a woman.

The Parkers recently adopted Zoey, who is Jennie’s niece, after her father died in a workplace accident in September […]