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."
"Say your child's "decision" to become a drug dealer, "
Drug Dealer: Your words, not mine. If you mean pharmacist, say pharmacist. I think most people know that a "drug dealer" refers to the distributor of illegal substances to be purchased for recreational and not medicinal purposes.
On that note, I'm off to the bank, and then the liquor store to purchase legal libations for tonight's hoot nanny. And if there's a parking spot next to the door, I'll save it for the handicapped person it was intended for. After all, it's the moral and LEGAL thing to do!
And by the by, Grand Uncle Frank almost certainly sold medications that are now illegal! And likely reserved a few cases of "medicinal" whiskey and grain alcohol for personal and family consumption during the Prohibition.
Kimberly, one can oppose the homosexual agenda and still be rational and polite. However, you always have your people like nmh, who have major sexual self-esteem problems and, frankly, need to get laid, who will lecture you and put down your family. Don't mind him.
Actually, only because it got pretty heated before and pretty personal so it didn't need to be brought up again and no, I didn't really get into it so don't involve me.
Damn, bvw! Better put some ice on THAT one.
Do you think Dick Cheney loves his daughter?
Looks like you read only the first sentence. I said, "Decent point" meaning that the person made a point though I may or may not agree with it. I only agreed that there needed to be more information than the article stated. I went on to say that I didn't agree with the lawsuit and that I don't think kids that young can decide their sexual orientation adequately, much as we don't have them make the "adult" decisions of drugs, alcohol, and smoking. I didn't really offer an opinion per se, just another point of view, though it may not be a good view because there's so many houses around.
Being interracial makes a marriage "tougher"?!?!?
Will statistics help?
The trait that makes a gang member dangerous is his (or her) embracing of violence and related tactics in day to day life. A person turned on by the same sex doesn't (necessarily) turn to violence as a top method of dispute resolution,
The inability to distinguish these things is remarkable.
That's fine, but the two girls expelled in this case weren't expelled for a reckless lifestyle. Your emphasis on that is valid, but misplaced in this (and many) situations.
I'd love to see any you might have. I'm dating a Hispanic girl (born in the U.S., but her mother is from Ecuador), am VERY in love with her, and might, God willing, marry her one day.
I think that the assertion that anything OTHER than love should factor into a marriage is utterly ludicrious.
Violence is not the first nor last trouble. Lack of discernment, common immorality, crudeness and foolishness are the leaders.
Bring a homosexual into your family home and you bring his friends and lovers too. Better to bring in the cockroaches -- cockroaches society condones the extermination of, and very few people tolerate being covered in cockroaches. Yet I've seen some. Folks who have beds calling with cockroaches.
And relatives who've died the death of a thousand plus "lovers".
Joining a gang of criminals is embracing the gang violence, even if a person themselves doesn't partake directly.
A person who indulges in sex with a member of the same sex isn't comperable in any way.
A nice, polite woman who works in accounting shouldn't lose her job just because she gets sexually excited, and acts upon that instinct, with other women.
Most americans feel this way. Conservatives have the moral highground on many of the homosexial agenda issues, but will lose most people if there is ever the perception that they advocate simply being mean to gay people.
It's a loser - whether you can cope with it or not.
"cockroaches society condones the extermination of, and very few people tolerate being covered in cockroaches. Yet I've seen some. Folks who have beds calling with cockroaches."
Dang, you should find some new folks to hang out with. Do you often frequent these types of places?
Back when I was riding shotgun making cash home heating oil deliveries during the winter in urban America.
How pretty. That "nice polite woman" turns pruny, aged and alone, and an emotional wreckage. Take for example the case of The Singing Nun (lighter take).
Although Soeur Sourire did other good works in her life besides music ("Dominique"), at her death (double suicide?) with her lover she died alone.
Female homosexuality is not the same as male, as you likely are aware, or at least should be aware. Lesbians don't usually find that "acting on instinct" (what a phrase!) leads them to the hyper-promiscuity found in male homosexual behaviour.
A person isn't whole and is ever lonely without a lifemate of the opposite sex. And that applies to those who lead a life of chasity as well. Such loneliness by choice is a damnable condition, and a regret to the person and everyone in his or her circle.
Off the subject of gay children generally, the phrase "unconditional love" is truly disturbing. Should Hitler's mother, had she lived, have "loved her son unconditionally"? How about Charlie Manson's, or Joe-Bob Stalin's? Or Kip Kinkel's? Do people today have any comprehension whatsoever what the word "unconditional" implies?
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me." --Jesus Christ.
There are differences. For example, the 45th percentile for slutty heterosexuals is 10 sexual partners in a lifetime; the 45th percentile for gay men is over 500 sexual partners per lifetime. Almost 1/3 of gay men (28%) have over 1000 partners.
When you factor in the much increased health risk of sexual habits that involve perforation of the rectum or lower bowel, it's no mystery why a gay man in America has a life expectancy around 45, while a straight man has a life expectancy around 75.
So equating them on the level of observations like, "Gay and straight men both have relationships that don't work out," really misses the forest for the trees.
It creates unique challenges, including a much increased likelihood of social ostracism for the children by both their white and their black peers. I've dated interracially, and would bless my child's interracial marriage, but I would definitely try to be sure they were prepared for the difficulties they would face.
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