Posted on 04/29/2009 4:45:07 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- The state Supreme Court left intact Wednesday a lower-court ruling that said a private religious high school wasn't covered by California civil rights law and could expel students it believed were lesbians.
Over Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar's dissent, the court denied review of an appeal by parents of two girls who were expelled from a high school in Riverside County. A lawyer for the parents said the ruling, which is binding on trial courts statewide, would allow private schools to discriminate against students on any basis they chose, including sex and religion.
The girls were juniors at California Lutheran High School in the town of Wildomar when the principal, Gregory Bork, called them to his office in September 2005 and questioned them separately about their sexual orientation, after another student reported postings on their MySpace pages.
Bork suspended the girls based on their answers, and the school's directors expelled them a month later. The girls, who later graduated from another high school, have not been identified and have not discussed their sexual orientation, said their parents' attorney, Kirk Hanson.
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Something tells me this isn’t an ELCA school.
Good get rid of all the bullies
WELS
How long until the 9th Circus overturns it?
It is a private school they can have the students they want or don’t want.
This is why they’re private. Once they take public money in any form, including vouchers, they let gov’t have some oversight.
How long until the 9th Circus overturns it?The 9th would love to overturn it, but after SCOTUS allowed the Boy Scouts to set their own membership requirements, I don't see the 9th getting involved in this case.
As far as “gay” issues with students go, I wish we had don’t ask don’t tell for students. I have heard that for girls especially, they can go through phases in which they think they have attraction to girls. But then they grow up to be normal heterosexual women. It might be a good policy to just say, we’re not going to talk about sex orientation of students, because students aren’t yet adults. They aren’t yet finished growing up.
If these students really feel the pull of “gayness”, when they are of legal age they can head on down to The Castro and explore things to their hearts content. If their bodies and minds are still developing, perhaps their “sex orientation” is also still developing, and shouldn’t be disturbed. I guess the gay activists would have society apologize for having social norms that might push people towards heterosexuality, but that’s their problem, not the problem of society.
How did civilization survive all these many thousands of years without giving such special treatment to the homosexual community?
this is exactly why I have reservations about school vouchers.
“private schools to discriminate against students on any basis they chose, including sex and religion.”
So what. Someone can start a private school for gay kids and exclude straight kids if they want. Or a Christian school and exclude atheists. It’s called choice.
No “Day of Silence” in that school.
One of my young cousins who was in a rural VA public school a few years ago was quite bitter about the rule that males and females were not allowed a kiss, yet this rule was not enforced on lesbians and they could do everything except disrobe in the halls.
Hit the way back button to 1976-1980 in that same school. Their were no lesbians or gays that anyone knew about and boyfriends and girlfriends exchanged a kiss between classes quite often. Boys insulted their friends by calling then “fags” and I firmly believe half of them didn’t even know what it meant. I know I didn’t until 9th grade.
Today we are too afraid to say “I do not want my kids exposed to homosexual behavior until I decide they are old enough for ME to explain it to them”
I wonder what would happen if some endangered species’ males started to lose interest in the opposite sex began to show affection toward their own. Would liberal heads explode trying to figure out how to save them and stay on message?
Bravo to this school. I pray that they will survive the 9th circus.
This is a State law case, so the Ninth Short Circuited Court of Appeals will never hear this case.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if the California State Legislature quickly amends the California civil rights law so as to overrule this decision. Then the private schools can be the Plaintiffs.
Good point about vouchers coming with strings attached. I hadn’t thought about that. You get one dollar of federal money and you’re dead meat.
If I remember correctly, I think that Kuhl woman tried to do something like that, making it mandatory for Christian schools not affiliated with a church to incorporate homo indoctrination curriculum in their schools. The legislature wasn’t interested. Something about they didn’t have the authority to mandate something like that.
I knew girls at college where I worked in Women’s Studies, who were lesbians then but married and had families later on in life.
I would imagine the hate crimes act just passed by the US House will bring a screeching halt to religious school’s actions such as this, unless the schools are Muslim, of course.
How much actual work can there be to Women’s Studies?
I’ve been trying my hand at women’s studies for many decades, and I’m just as ignorant as I ever was.
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