Teens sue Riverside evangelical school over lesbian suspicions

AP ^ | 12/29/5

[SmithL]

Riverside -- Two 16-year-old girls who were expelled from a private 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 tiny California Lutheran High School, unspecified damages and an injunction barring the school from excluding gays and lesbians.

The suit could be a test case in the state on whether religious schools can deny enrollment to gays and lesbians, said Richard Ackerman, a lawyer who is president of Temecula's Pro-Family Center, which focuses on lawsuits dealing with conservative Christian values.

"There's no established law on this issue," said Ackerman, who's not involved in the current litigation. "It's very likely this will be a precedent-setting case."

Kirk D. Hanson, co-counsel 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 if his clients were lesbians.

[SmithL]

The school is owned by the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, . . .

I knew from the headline that this wasn't an ELCA school.

[Chickensoup]

Now they are going after the Lutherens.

[Dane]

And, no doubt, the tort lawyers and ACLU are rubbing their hands in glee.

[doodad]

said Hanson, who declined to say if his clients were lesbians.

Hmmmmmmm.

[Gay State Conservative]

The lawsuit, filed last week in Riverside County Superior Court, seeks the girls' re-enrollment at the tiny California Lutheran High School, unspecified damages and an injunction barring the school from excluding gays and lesbians.

Translation,they are,*in fact*,lesbians and insist that this religious school (and,most likely,no religious school) must not be allowed to follow its own teachings regarding basic moral issues.

[PatriotGirl827]

You nailed it.

[SolidSupplySide]

Now they are going after the Lutherens.

The Wisconsin synod actually believes in the Bible. That is what the lefties fear.

Note what SmithL said about the Evangelical Lutherans. Since they don't believe in the Bible, the lefties would leave those more desirable (in the eyes of the lefties) Lutherans alone.

[ccwoman]

Just as long as they are snooping into ALL the students lives and are expelling the ones who are drinking, swearing, having "normal sex" eating too much or committing any other "sin".

[WinOne4TheGipper]

There's no established law on this issue," said Ackerman,

Sure there is. It's called the First Amendment. Read and weep...

[stylin19a]

why can't private schools deny admission to anybody for any reason ?

[Bismark]

So it is your contention that a Christian school doesn't have the right to be Christian?

[bulldozer]

"There's no established law on this issue," said Ackerman, who's not involved in the current litigation. "It's very likely this will be a precedent-setting case."

Well, in this case Judge Stephen Reinhardt will have to legislate a law from the bench

[festus]

Sure there is. It's called the First Amendment. Read and weep...

I read it and the rest of the constitution and weep regularly. Can you imagine being lucky enough to live in a country that actually followed it ?

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Just as long as they are snooping into ALL the students lives and are expelling the ones who are drinking, swearing, having "normal sex" eating too much or committing any other "sin".


Most people that committing "other sins" don't try to convince others that their sin is acceptable. It is obvious that these students drew attention to themselves and are testing the waters.

[The Brush]

Just as long as they are snooping into ALL the students lives and are expelling the ones who are drinking, swearing, having "normal sex" eating too much or committing any other "sin".
It must have been obvious behavior if the school picked up on it.
The fact that the children (they are children after all) hired an attorney to demand that the doctrine of the religion of the school be changed to include their behavior suggests that they have no respect for their doctrine their own religion.
A private school should not be bound by public school rules. unless the school is getting public funds, in which case they should return them.

[SmithL]

Unfortunately, the ELCA leaders ARE the lefties.

[Rca2000]

All part of the big plan.............

[Accygirl]

Very much doubt it... Since they aren't morally pure themselves, they shouldn't be judging others' behavior. Expulsion and other serious punishments should be for drug/ alcohol offenses, fighting, and other serious offenses, not students' sex lives.

[Galveston Grl]

We are not getting the full story here. I think the gals were flaunting their thing in the school. I don't think snooping was required.

You don't have to treat all teenage misbehavior as the same degree of danger or sin. Brainless "zero tolerance" is for the ethically challenged humanists in the public schools. Bring a gun to school and you are expelled. Draw a pricture of a gun, and you are expelled.