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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
This case in particular is going to set a precedence considering also this is coming from the same state that shot down Prop 8 just a few short months ago.
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The precedent that it may set, however, is one that
favors separation of church and state. This was a private, church-related school. The decision, as best I can tell and to the degree that church and state enter into it, supports the idea that the state cannot make the church accept something that violates church doctrine, even if society on the whole thinks what the school is doing is bad. (From the article linked in the OP, it appears that the legal issue turned on whether a private, church-related school is a "business" within the meaning of California non-discrimination laws. I have little doubt, though, that the church-state seperation argument was made.)
And California did not shoot down Proposition 8; California voters approved it.
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