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As a private school they should have the right to decide policy and the government has no business sticking their nose in. That anyone should question it is why I am saying our religious rights are being threatened. Freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
As a private school they should have the right to decide policy and the government has no business sticking their nose in. That anyone should question it is why I am saying our religious rights are being threatened. Freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
This isn't so much about freedom of religion as it is freedom to discriminate against gay people.
As a private school they should have the right to decide policy and the government has no business sticking their nose in.
You think the state should tolerate ritual virgin sacrifice at private schools? I think not. I think private schools are every bit as subject to public law as public schools, where public law allows to private schools some rights that it does not extend to public schools. Conservatives are so wont to take that which does not belong to them.
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Originally Posted by NCN
That anyone should question it is why I am saying our religious rights are being threatened. Freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Your religious rights are constrained by the limits of your person. They do not in any way extend to another person. What is threatened is the use of religion as a cover for conspiracy to deprive others of THEIR rights, something that religious extremists do seem to delight in doing. There meanwhile IS no freedom of religion without freedom from religion. The latter is the very underpinning of the former, and the former has nothing at all to do with any right to do whatever you please.
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.
True, the school can do what it wants. Who would want to be in a religion that was that biased as to who God loves? They should feel fortunate to learn this about the Lutherans.
who? the girls? well....i guess they are going about as low as they can on each other.
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