Posted on 12/30/2005 4:57:09 AM PST by ShadowDancer
Girls Suspected Of Being Lesbians Expelled From School
Teens File Lawsuit Against School
POSTED: 7:23 am EST December 30, 2005
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Two 16-year-olds who were expelled from a Lutheran high school because they were suspected of being lesbians have sued the school for invasion of privacy and discrimination.
The lawsuit, filed last week in Riverside County Superior Court, seeks the girls' re-enrollment at the small California Lutheran High School, unspecified damages and an injunction barring the school from excluding gays and lesbians.
Kirk D. Hanson, an attorney for the girls, said the expulsion traumatized and humiliated them.
"Their entire support network was pulled out from under them because of suspicions about their sexual orientation," said Hanson, who declined to say whether his clients are lesbians.
The school is on Christmas break until next week, and messages left for school officials Thursday were not immediately returned.
The lawsuit alleges that the school's principal, Gregory Bork, called the girls into his office, grilled them on their sexual orientation and "coerced" one girl into saying she loved the other.
The next day, the lawsuit says, Bork told the girls' parents they could not stay at the school with "those feelings." In a Sept. 12 letter to the parents, Bork acknowledged that officials had seen no physical contact between the girls but said their friendship was "uncharacteristic of normal girl relationships and more characteristic of a lesbian one."
"Such a relationship violates our Christian Code of Conduct," Bork wrote in his letter, which was included as an exhibit in the lawsuit. He called the girls' behavior "scandalous" and "immoral."
Hanson said the 142-student school in Wildomar, Calif., must comply with state civil rights laws because it functions as a business by collecting tuition.
"There's a lot of hypocrisy going on here," Hanson said. "The school is claiming the girls were expelled because their conduct wasn't within the Christian code. But at the same time, (the school) has students who aren't Christians and are even Jewish."
They try to avoid a whirlwind romance.
I see that now. But, it appears you agreed with it. I was simply offering another POV.
Just to be sure ... are you saying that you are proud of your son for practising sexual acts with other young men?
;-)
Promiscuity tends a person towards other sexual perversions, sure -- and homosexuality is by all known studies one of, if not the most, promiscuous of sexual identifications. So yes, there is a tie-in between beastality and homosexuality. Recent case of a horse and a man in the Northwest is infamous for such.
Yoi ....... there is a God.
Do you live is a city where gangs have made inroads? Would you so be so gaily dismissive of attempts to minimze gang activity -- say by firing known gang members? Or by kicking gang members out of school? Or do you call that meanness?
The fight doesn't always go to the strongest, nor the race to the swiftest ... but that's the way to bet your money. The odds favor heterosexual relationships.
"As my aunt once said to my father who was upset because her (my aunt, his sister) daughter married a black man "Life is too short to resent our children for the decisions they make"."
I'm sure he wanted the best for his sister. Marriage is tough enough without voluntarily making it tougher. I feel the same way about people who marry when the bride-to-be is pregnant.
Lack of a father -- a symptom of broken families, and recast families, etc. Divorces, step-parents, time-multiplexed parents. What a crazy thing for kids to have to deal with. Of course some get very confused!
Well, yeah. I'm just ... I'm ... emphasizing the point.
It should be obvious that I respond to posts as I read them -- not read everything then go back. Up until now, that hasn't been an issue.
My cousin, who would be my aunt's daughter (I apologize for the confusion) made a decision that my father resented. My cousin, and her husband, have now been married for over 10 years. So I guess my father was the loser here, as he would not speak to his niece after her decision.
It is not against the law to marry someone of different race/religion. It IS against the law to deal drugs, or participate in gang violence. We have neither in our family.
"sue to force a ... location to accept you"
What does that refer to? Can locations discriminate?
Hang on there bucko. Let's get just a little honest with our descriptions here. Getting sexually excited by someone or something is not the same as actually doing something about it.
The homosexual lifstyle goes way beyong being "sexually excited by some members of the same sex". Hell, I wouldn't approve of heterosexuals living the same lifstyle as homosexuals.
The last thing I need to know is the sexual proclivities of my students or my employees. Assuming their behavior is not thrown in my face, demanding not only my tolerance but my acceptance of it, I see no reason to dismiss anyone.
And if your cousin gets a divorce, your father is now a winner? Will you go up to him and say he was right all along? I sincerely doubt that.
This is not a case of winning and losing. Again, your father probably wanted what was best for her. Why he would care so much for his niece as to not speak to her for the last ten years, however, is a mystery (which I am personally content to leave unsolved).
But my guess is that he felt more disappointment than resentment.
Maybe because he passed away in 2000?
BTW, he completely condoned the marriage of my sister to her husband who was white and an officer in the navy.
He physically and emotionally abused her and my nephew. They eventually divorced and my sister went on to remarry a wonderful man a week after my father passed away (it wasn't planned that way, it just sort of happened as such).
And last time I saw my cousin, which was at my wedding recently, she seemed very happy and content. Although she did complain that her husband is a bit of a neat freak and tends to get a little nutty with the dust buster. Sounds perfect to me! lol
I assume you brought up your cousin's interracial marriage because you believe it to be typical of most interracial marriages?
Hardly. See your PM.
You have no pharmacists in your family? My great uncle Frank was a pharmacist, did pretty well. What do you have against them?
Homosexuality -- the practise of sexual activity between men -- is wrong. Whether lawful or not, it is still wrong. And yes, it is a proper thing to resent, to detest. Love the sinner, hate the sin -- a parent will always bear love for a child, even when the child goes completely haywire.
How is your father the loser, btw? Would you continue to speak to a nephew who joined the Crips, and stayed a memebr for ten years? Or would you be afraid of being "a loser, big 'L' on foreheard" for not talking to such a nephew for so long a time? Do you ever make decisions based on moral judgements and stick to them?
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