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Originally Posted by christiangirl
I don't like the rule and it should've been more clear in that article (what exactly does "characteristic of a lesbian relationship" mean? Were they hugging or holding hands (which friends do sometimes)? Or making out under the bleachers?) but even I have to admit the school was in their right to make it. This reminds me a bit of reverse discrimination in the legal realm. Everyone's constantly b*tching about how the church and state should separate because moral/religious values have no place in legislative matters. Well, now a private, religious school has done what they felt is necessary to protect the sanctity of their ways and what happened? People ran to get the law involved. So it's okay to keep the two separate if legal rights are being protected, but if officials attempt to exercise their right to uphold the standards of their "religious institution" then the two should be mixed? The deciding factor should be the institution backing the school--if it were a government-run (public) school it'd be one thing, but if the Church is the governing body then the law has no place in their proceedings unless fundamental human rights were being violated.
I'm not saying that I agree with what this school did and it used to piss me off when my (Catholic) high school would pull this mess on students. If anything, I would prefer to see a ban PDA for ALL students so that sexuality wouldn't be an issue. But no matter how I feel about the policy, I don't like the double standard stated above.
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It depends on what you do or dont consider a human right. If you consider it a right to pursue happiness then you could say the students had their rights violated. I do not believe that it is within the rights of a school to deny students the best possible education because of their sexual orientation, race, or gender.
The seperation of Church and state prevents one group (church) from forcing their beliefs on others. In the same token the others (state) do not attempt to regulate the beliefs of the church. I do not believe that seperation means that the church is above the law. The church must abide by the law of the land just like the others. There's no double standard. The law happened to be that discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal (as it should be). As such they took the matter to court.
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