New Zealand school demands gay students sign contract

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Gay students at four schools in Auckland have been stopped from taking same-sex partners to school balls until they sign contracts declaring that they are homosexual.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10529858

[MrModerate]

1. This is outrageous. And highlights that even in "liberal" New Zealand . . .

There are pockets of troglodytism.

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2. I don't see how they can enforce it.

[mockmonkey]

3. I don't get it

I'm so puzzled over the point of this.

[DCKit]

4. Harassment. n/t

[Meeker Morgan]

5. What exactly is the point, even from a homophobic pinhead point of view?

To deter straights from bringing same sex partners?

To deter "secret gays" from bringing same sex partners? Like it'll be a secret any more?

Someone isn't thinking -- you should pardon the expression -- straight.

[NorthCarolina]

6. If your prom date is the same-sex as yourself

isn't that proof enough that you are likely a homosexual? This doesn't make sense other than as "harassment" as suggested by another poster.

[WillParkinson]

7. Actually it does...

When you have some students who will show up with same-sex dates because they couldn't get a date or just wanted to go with friends. Or, as has been the case in the US, some students do it as a show of support for gay students.

Does it make it right? Of course not. Does it make sense? No. Is it stupid? Hell yeah.

[DarkTirade]

8. ... wtf?

My mind is officially blown. I just don't get it. Most of the time I can at least understand how someone arrived at a conclusion, even if their entire train of thought along the way is fucked up. But this... I just can't. I don't see how they get from point A to point B.
I just don't get it.

[sui generis]

9. so you can't be hetero and take a same gender date?

doesn't that imply underage sex?

wussup widdat? :think:

[BR_Parkway]

10. Turn in the contract to get your toaster now?