School expels girl for having lesbian parents

[deep]

Because when you're taught your entire life to hate someone, you'll do anything and everything to justify it.

Melon

Religion = Guilt free hate?

 

[melon]

Religion = Guilt free hate?

Exactly.

Melon

 

[VertigoGal]

this is less and less true

with "faith based money" going to churches it indirectly supports the schools

by freeing up money from other church programs

vouchers are an out and out attack on public schools
and handout to religious intolerance

This I agree with completely.

 

[indra]

No. This is a private school. Schools that receive tax dollars are prohibited from this kind of discrimination. So far anyway. Who knows what our idiot president will propose next.

It depends on which state. I know in Ohio private schools, even religion afiliated ones, can and often do, receive public funds. The uses of the funds are limited (but I forget for what right now), but they still can get them.

But if schools do get public funding, or don't accept it, they can pretty much do as they please.


(oh and I just noticed that damned typo in my first post... Christian, damn it, it was supposed to be Christian!)

 

[indra]

We've got this coverall type of law here which states no one, institution or organisation can discriminate based upon gender, sexuality, age, race, religion, ethnicity, etc etc. doesn't matter who it is. No school or employer can expel or sack someone because of sexuality. Funding is a non issue. It's simply illegal. It makes everyone free to be who they are without fearing reprisal. It's aim is equality.

Australia is looking better and better all the time....

 

[Irvine511]

Australia is looking better and better all the time....

i find myself thinking this often.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Because when you're taught your entire life to hate someone, you'll do anything and everything to justify it.

Melon

I guess .

I dunno. Am I weird for thinking that the events of the past few weeks would be kind of a clue or something that life is far too short to get all caught up in this kind of hatred?

Angela

 

[verte76]

Australia is looking better and better all the time....

I find myself thinking this as well. I actually have a cousin in Melbourne, so I have family there. They lived in both the U.S. and Australia and then chose to live in Australia.

 

[Rono]

It still puzzles me that the school punished the child because of the lifestyle of the parents.

 

[Angela Harlem]

Ah, that's bollocks. Guys, please come and live here. If you can handle the heat and housepet sized spiders, you're laughing. And to balance it all out, please take a nice long look at the fellow in my sig. He just led my team to the premiership winning final yesterday. Now, who aint up for some Paul Roos, huh?


Irvine? Verte? Indra?

 

[Kieran McConville]

Don't worry guys, Australia is down with the googly spaghetti monster too! You'll be right at home!

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Australia is looking better and better all the time....

Oooh yeah, everybody, come on DOWN!!!!

(Er, you don't all have to like the bloke in Anna's sig. I don't and live a very happy life. )

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Heh, I'd have no problem living in Australia .

The spider thing Angela referred to may be a bit of a problem for me, though ...think I could permanently hire an exterminator to live with me?

Angela

 

[anitram]

Ah, that's bollocks. Guys, please come and live here. If you can handle the heat and housepet sized spiders, you're laughing.

You have a bastion of socialism a lot closer than that in Canookia, guys.

 

[verte76]

You have a bastion of socialism a lot closer than that in Canookia, guys.

I don't think I could stand the cold. I need a fairly warm climate.

 

[Angela Harlem]

Oooh yeah, everybody, come on DOWN!!!!

(Er, you don't all have to like the bloke in Anna's sig. I don't and live a very happy life. )

you're in denial, woman! or you're a crows fan

 

[anitram]

It's no colder here in Toronto than in your Midwest or Northeast.

I don't live in an igloo.

 

[Angela Harlem]

You must be lying, anitram. See, I was talking to dandy and asking her how she kills her food, you know, in days of the Pioneer style? And she denied it to and said you guys have supermarkets and stuff. It's interesting that you're both telling falsehoods independantly!

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

It's no colder here in Toronto than in your Midwest or Northeast.

Well, I'm originally from the Midwest (well, technically, the Plains, but some people do refer to it as the Midwest regardless), so if that's the case, then....

There'd be upsides to living in Canada or Australia . Wouldn't mind someplace in Europe, either .

Angela

 

[Irvine511]

You must be lying, anitram. See, I was talking to dandy and asking her how she kills her food, you know, in days of the Pioneer style? And she denied it to and said you guys have supermarkets and stuff. It's interesting that you're both telling falsehoods independantly!

if/when i move to Oz, can you teach me how to wrestle a crocodile?

 

[dandy]

Angie wrestling a crocodile

she can also teach you how to train those blasted huntsman spiders as house pets.

 

[Spiral_Staircase]

It still puzzles me that the school punished the child because of the lifestyle of the parents.

Yeah, I don't get this at all. If her parents were both murderers, or convicted rapists, I still wouldn't get it.

 

[nbcrusader]

It still puzzles me that the school punished the child because of the lifestyle of the parents.

Actually, you should be puzzled by the basis for the school's rule and why the parents chose to send the child to this school. My guess is that everyone here would not send their child to this school.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

well first off as a private school they have every right to do what they did, as stupid as it may have been.

second... i don't find it a very christian type thing to cast out a child based on the perceived sins of the parents.

(disclaimer before someone misreads what i said and starts slamming me... i do not think homsexuality is a sin, but this school obviously does, thus then... yea.)

 

[Irvine511]

well first off as a private school they have every right to do what they did, as stupid as it may have been.

second... i don't find it a very christian type thing to cast out a child based on the perceived sins of the parents.

(disclaimer before someone misreads what i said and starts slamming me... i do not think homsexuality is a sin, but this school obviously does, thus then... yea.)

^ agreed.

if people want to be idiots, and they have their own money, then they are perfectly free to do so.

 

[BVS]

Actually, you should be puzzled by the basis for the school's rule

Absolutely.

and why the parents chose to send the child to this school. My guess is that everyone here would not send their child to this school.

Well like someone pointed out earlier they are both devout Lutherns and I guess they had too much faith that the school would work on Biblical teachings rather than bias and bigotry.

 

[Irvine511]

Well like someone pointed out earlier they are both devout Lutherns and I guess they had too much faith that the school would work on Biblical teachings rather than bias and bigotry.

but don't you see, BVS?

if they were really devout Lutherans, they wouldn't have selected the lesbian lifestyle.

 

[martha]

You have a bastion of socialism a lot closer than that in Canookia, guys.

Without spiders as big as cats, thank you.

 

[melon]

if they were really devout Lutherans, they wouldn't have selected the lesbian lifestyle.

The converse is expected too. If they are devout lesbians, they would not have selected the Lutheran lifestyle.

So many stereotypes about homosexuals exist out there.

Melon

 

[Irvine511]

how does one become a devout lesbian?