Today in WTF? School Can Expel Students Who Seem Gay

Posted by Colleen Kane

 

When I was a youngster on the playground, nobody was safe from being called gay, or, worse: a gaylord. But now a California court upheld a previous finding that a Christian high school can expel students percieved to be lesbians. 

Private religious organizations can discriminate based on sexual orientation, and the 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside just decided to go along with that in the case of this Lutheran high school. 

Just one of many reasons this is a dangerous, terrible, completely ill-advised ruling is that, had we attended this school, myself and all my friends who sported femullets as eighth graders would have been expelled. 

California, what happened to the hippy state? Time to step up to the plate with some progressive rulings. 

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Posted Jan 28 2009, 02:30 PM
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Comments

oliotomato said:

The government forcing private organizations to conform to liberal ideals is not progressive.  It's oppressive.  

(FTR, I think this is disgusting and I would yank my children out of a school that did this to another student in a heartbeat.)

January 28, 2009 3:33 PM

Apollo said:

Wait, you had a femullet?

January 28, 2009 4:22 PM

Colleen Kane said:

oliomato, I suppose you have a point, but is it not also oppressive to boot a paying customer based on who they are?

Apollo, in 1987/88, myself and a loooot of girls I knew had mullety haircuts. It wasn't like a Billy Ray Cyrus extreme, but still qualifies in retrospect.

January 28, 2009 4:48 PM

TomFynn said:

Enough is enough. Let's found an atheist high school right away and expel all pupils who seem Christian. OK, its unfair too, but the look on the faces of the heads of the California Lutheran High School will make it all worthwhile...

January 29, 2009 6:17 AM

About Colleen Kane

Colleen has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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