School can expel lesbian students, court rules – Los Angeles Times — What do I have to do to get the numbers on this blog back up! Just seems like a funny headline I could not resist.
After a Lutheran school expelled two 16-year-old girls for having “a bond of intimacy” that was “characteristic of a lesbian relationship,” the girls sued, contending the school had violated a state anti-discrimination law.
In response to that suit, an appeals court decided this week that the private religious school was not a business and therefore did not have to comply with a state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating. A lawyer for the girls said Tuesday that he would ask the California Supreme Court to overturn the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal.
The appeals court called its decision “narrow,” but lawyers on both sides of the case said it would protect private religious schools across California from such discrimination suits.
#3 – Amo
>>Interesrting posts brendal, care to
>>elucidate?
Brenda Lee is a Dvorak groupie.
#5 JoeHillsGhost
While I myself am anti-theist that in no way gives me the right to tell others what they can do.
If you take away the thumpers right to make stupid calls like this can the loss of your rights be far behind.
#18 Mr Fusion
>>If this school wants to teach religion to their students, it should never be our prerogative to stop them. That is why they are private and charge extra tuition.
Oh my? I hardly know what to say when I discover I agree with one of your statements. Guess I’ll have to figure that out later.
Keep traveling down this road to sanity and you will lose your status as one of the founding members of the Vulture Brothers.
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Seems very unnatural to me.
Any articles on ‘no gay Lutherans allowed’?
It’s a private school they can discriminate all they want and the parents can discriminate all they want regarding being lezbo, until that magic day of 18 years old. There are public schools they can attend where instead, the school will discriminate against fashion and texting in class. Big deal. What do you want this world to become, IN-discriminate? Boring. About the “numbers on this blog” we are losing our jobs here and have to cut back. Your democrat friends in Congress and the Black House will have a blog stimulus package for you to use.
#26–leave it==unintentionally, you raise an interesting question: how similar can we all be and still maintain sufficient diversity to remain individual and interesting?
I think its quite a lot. Enough that “all” of the gross war causing disputes between groups of us could be done away with and diversity/interest would still remain in spades===as hearts may be your interest.
I’d like to see a world where the hateful differences are done away with and the interesting differences are left to be given full expression.
Don’t religious private schools still get some money from the government (and hence the taxpayers)? I’m sure the church at least gets tax breaks.
Religious schools like this mainly exist because there simply aren’t enough hours at the end of the day for busy parents to teach their children all the small-minded, intolerant values that some Christians want to impart during those important formative years of childhood.
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Lesbian Lutherans.
# 28 dm said, “Don’t religious private schools still get some money from the government (and hence the taxpayers)?”
Not this one.
If you want to get the numbers on the blog up, how about writing some actual articles instead of regurgitating stuff I can find on Digg? I came here to read what John C Dvorak had to say, but I’ve not seen one article like that in a year.
It is a private institution and is allowed to discriminate as such. This is the same thing Scouts of America does when they disallow nontheists.
Of course, thinking people would also recognize their own rights to drop stupid, antiquated, bigoted religion on its pointy little head.
How would the school even know they are lesbians? Are they kissing or holding hands at school? I wasn’t allowed to kiss or hold hands with a girl at private school either.
Were they just hanging out with each other and excluding others? Lots of girls did that and they were not lesbians.
So either they were doing PDA or they were making their relationship an issue.
#20, Loser,
I agree with you except for when you get to the part about educating the children should not be the government’s concern.
It is in our interest that all children be educated. As with public schools, home schooled children should be verified that they are being taught. The teachers (including home teaching parents) should all meet specific minimum standards. The facilities should all meet minimum standards. And, the materials should all be to a specific standard.
Benjamin, the girls were originally reported to the principal by a student informant. During the principal’s inquisition, the principal claims that the girls admitted to having told other students they were lesbians.
We should all just pray that they will find their way back to the Lord’s divine plan of heterosexuality, even as we also pray not to succumb to the temptation of playing imagined videos of their licentious and lascivious activities in our own heads.
# 34 Mr. Fusion said, “It is in our interest that all children be educated. As with public schools, home schooled children should be verified that they are being taught.”
However, since those “supervising” the public schools aren’t ensuring that THOSE children are being taught, who do you want checking on the Home Schooling?
…wonders if the principal made them prove it during the inquisition….
#35 “During the principal’s inquisition, the principal claims that the girls admitted to having told other students they were lesbians.”
Easy to handle in any case: “But Principal, I only told Gerald, the dorky kid with tape on his glasses, when he asked me out. You won’t tell him I am not really a lesbian, will you?”
What if the school said we are only admitting whites. Would that be OK? How far are you willing to let private schools go with their religious freedom? The bible does say that disrespectful children should be put to death so if they are getting their guidelines from the bible they’d better start obeying the rest of it.
#39 TheBlob
>>What if the school said we are only admitting whites.
This type of racist diversion is not helpful or accurate. The school is not admitting only whites so it is not pertinent.
Most religious schools consider same-sex relationships to be sinful and go to great lengths to adhere to a higher standard… a difficult task at best.
If you don’t agree then don’t go to a religious school.