Judge: Private School Not Covered By Calif. Gay Rights Law

[WillParkinson]

(Riverside, California) A Riverside County Superior Court judge has dismissed a civil rights case brought by two teenage girls who were expelled from a private Lutheran high school because they were suspected of being lesbians.

More: http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/01/012108cal.htm

(And now you can be removed from school if you are SUSPECTED of being gay. Wow. Nice religious values.)

[fasttense]

1. See, when you privatize a government function, the private firm doesn't have to

follow the law. Blackwater and the bushes have proved that laws don't matter.

[theredpen]

2. Dude, I know someone who was kicked out of Baylor for being suspected of being hetrosexual

He lent his car to his girlfriend, and on the evidence of his car being parked in front of her apartment overnight, they kicked him out for SUSPICION of premarital sex.

Religious zealots suck. I don't know why people put themselves through the misery of attending their schools. I'm sure there was a nice Episcopal or tolerant Catholic school those girls could have gone to (it was probably their parents' choice to send them to Bible Thumper High, though).

[Maat]

3. I was worried about this case ...

how disappointing!

The key is that, in a clash between 1st Amendment-related rights and anti-discrimination legislation, the Courts have always sided with the right of freedom of association (freedom to run the bigot's church as the bigot sees fit). The key, in my humble opinion, is that they were not accepting public funds. If they had been, it would have been an entirely different ballgame.

[NMMNG]

4. So long as they aren't receiving a penny of tax money,

I can deal with it. Otherwise that's BS. They can't claim "religious freedom" to skirt the laws then take tax dollars on the side.