I hope to God that the courts recognize that a private school bears the right to refuse service to anyone.
I hope to God that the courts recognize that a private school bears the right to refuse service to anyone.
What these smarmy lawyers are doing right now is researching every lease, contract or grant that the church has with any local, state or Federal agency.
Americans seem to have accepted the notion that once we accept one thin dime from government or one any legal privilege from tax-excempt status, then we give up everything guaranteed by the bill of rights.
This is not the way it should be. Our government should not be allowed to purchase our freedom from us.
The court's decision on the Boy Scouts makes it clear that the church, as a private business (not to mention having rather unique 1st Amendment protections), has every right to limit it's private school enrollment. And, unlike the BSA, they do not rely on government for facilities space. In the long run, this might actually increase private school fortunes after straight folks come to find refuge from the government-mandated "homosexualization" of public schools.