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."
I agree.
Contrast this with schools run by Episcopals that require their students to be either gay or lesbian... *cough*
Whether he is in fourth grade or last year of college, he's STILL DISGUSTING! I do discriminate against what is ABONORMAL.
I grew up in the 1980s in eastern Massachusetts, and we used the word "gay" to mean, more or less, "lame."
hehe
Depends on what college he goes to.
I'm quite sure then that you are pleased he isn't YOUR child. Fortunately for me, he's mine.
Gays don't have Federal special rights yet. People are free to tell teens how to act, in any case.
Yes, that too. Around here it means that and just plain "stupid." I kind of hate that it doesn't mean "happy" any more. It makes me wonder if we're going to ban "Deck the Halls" someday because of "Don we now our gay apparel." hehe
Yea I found that strange too. I can't think of any Principal just grilling the girls like that. It does not make sense. I believe that the story is not all complete. There has to be more to it. We will just have to wait for the school's side of it.
It does make reading 19th and early 20th century literature much more fun---from a sophmoric standpoint of course. Like in Don Quixote, how Sancho Panza loves his ass so much (Beavis laugh).
I grew up in the 1960s in eastern Massachusetts and we used the word "gay" to mean,more or less,"happy" or "fun" or "carefree".
You're fortunate your son has a paraphilic disorder?
You ass, that's her son you're speaking about. You are the one that's disgusting.
Which would prove once again that the 1st Amendment has been turned on its arse. It says, clearly, that Congress shall pass no law that has anything to do with (that's what "respecting" means) an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Therefore, if the application of a federal law accomplishes either of those two actions, then the law is null and void due to its Constitutional violation.
In turn, that means the law that authorized the funds to be delivered to the school is null and void if it also acts to prohibit the free exercise of religion.
But then, I'm not a lawyer. I'm a citizen.
You really have to update yourself ... you're going back 20-30 years ago ... things have changed ... perversion is in ... another poster here was asking me if I thought her "gay" son was more or less disgusting ... these people are IN YOUR FACE with this crap - evn on FR!
I have to update you ... here's a "Blue Ribbon" school:
http://www.nhvweb.net/nhhs/Practicalarts/SA/SAIndex.htm
Here's one of the prized student activities:
http://www.nhvweb.net/NHHS/Activities.htm#Gay/%20Straight%20Alliance
Just click on the links to inform yourself. This is VERY common now ... .
She's fortunate she has a child she loves. If his sexual orientation changed her love for him she would be a horrible mother.
It does make reading 19th and early 20th century literature much more fun---from a sophmoric standpoint of course. Like in Don Quixote, how Sancho Panza loves his ass so much (Beavis laugh).
Nice laugh. hehe
"I'm quite sure then that you are pleased he isn't YOUR child. Fortunately for me, he's mine."
I don't feel sorry for you ... something went wrong ... NO ONE is born that way ... we're VERY careful who is around our child ... . YOU read between the lines ... .
What a difference a decade or two makes, eh?
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