I am not claiming to have authority to tell them how to run their school ..but if the news account is correct, I can and will say that the principal handled the situation very poorly. One male talking to two girls alone, accusing them of being gay and expelling them alone is not the proper way to handle such a sensitive issue. Private churches hold themselves to a higher standard and thus should reflect that standard.
This article quotes only the lawsuit itself and the students' attorney; obviously we're getting the whole story.
Based, however, on the little that we have, it's evident that these accusations would never have been made if the girls themselves weren't circulating photos of themselves in sexually suggestive poses. So much for the so-sensitive "privacy" issue which they themselves violated.
The fact that they are now suing the school because they claim that their expulsion instanced discrimination against "gays and lesbians" means that they now wish to identify themselves in public as gay/lesbian.
If the school had boy/girl couples acting in a similar fashion, circulating photos of themselves and identifying themselves as lovers; or, say, an unmarried man/woman teacher couple who behaved in such a fashion, can you really believe that a Lutheran religious school wouldn't respond as they did in this instance?
A religious school is a faith community. Why do people want to barge into faith communities if they reject its faith and morals, and are in fact willing to try to use lawsuits to force the faith community to abandon its beliefs and practices?
Let's say the girls have the right to act gay. Why can't this school act Lutheran?