School can expel lesbian students, court rules

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Although I wonder, for example, if it would legal for a private religious school to prevent non Caucasians to the school i.e. Asians, Hispanics, Blacks..I would think that it would not legal however, if a 'puritan' religious school believed in their teachings that it is against biblical/religious law for groups to mix, they would probably expel students for that...and even if that is considered 'legal' because they are a private school and it is against their religious beliefs, I certainly could not imagine why families would enroll their children in that kind of school in the first place, unless, they too, opted to worship religiously yet opted to act without compassion, humanity, love and openness.........
I so don't understand that kind of hypocrisy....especially under the vein of religion!
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[Filet Mignon]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

An appeals panel finds California Lutheran High School in Riverside County is not a business and therefore doesn't have to comply with a state law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.

By Maura Dolan
January 28, 2009

Reporting from San Francisco -- 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.

Kirk D. Hanson, who represented the girls, said the "very troubling" ruling would permit private schools to discriminate against anyone, as long as the schools used their religious beliefs as justification.

Full story: School can expel lesbian students, court rules - Los Angeles Times

If a school is privately owned and funded, they can do whatever they want - including expelling whomever they wish.

If a school is publicly funded, no, they cannot discriminate.


It's really pretty simple. We may not like it, but it makes sense.