[CHRON] Kentucky school expels student who said he's gay

I heard about this yesterday...In looking above, that would rule out all universities and high schools, but this isn't the issue...They have rules and well, it is one...I empathize with the guy, and honestly, I'm sure sex outside of marriage and homosexuality occur, its just he got caught...I'm sure he'll get a lawyer and fight it, as I probably would to ensure equality...

 

American schools also had rules barring blacks until fairly recently, as you know. It was a great day when those rules went by the wayside and the same will be true of the day when schools are no longer allowed by law to practice this sort of discrimination.

 

Any law that is unjust is no law at all.

I think that sentiment by MLK would apply to this school's rules.

 

Oral Roberts doesn't admit gay and fat students (fitness test). Until the 80's or whenever the ADA passed, they didn't admit handicapped students. I am not sure if they admit non-Evangelical Christians.

They're a private school so unless the group is a protected class (minorities etc.) they're not breaking any laws.

 

And there's the rub. Gays and lesbians should be a protected class.

 

If there enrollment drops enough then they will change their policies. As a private institution they should have the right to exclude whoever they choose.

 

A private institution providing a commercial service, university education, which is becoming an ever-increasing necessity for a middle-class standard of living, and will be in higher-and-higher demand. How tempting would it be for other Evangelical universities to adopt this policy, via student government initiative, or some other standard? What percentage of colleges, in the South and Midwest, are evangelical? 60% of high school graduates are now enrolling in colleges, is this type of policy a selling point for tuition paying parents? (Sadly, it probably would be for me. If they're this strict about nonsense like sexual orientation, then they're probably strict about drugs, alcohol, academic and personal discipline, and it'd be hard for me to tell my hypothetical kid to not go.) Is professing one's aversion to gays, or denying/downplaying one's acceptance thereof, a requirement for being a Christian institution, or being a Christian spokesperson? Maybe, to the extent that Evangelical Christians feel persecuted and unpopular, taking an "extreme" and defiant stance against gay acceptance is public reinforcement, symbolically, of one's Christianity.

My guess is these policies ain't goin' nowhere.

 

Someday, history students will read about this kind of bigotry, shake their heads, and wonder how our society could tolerate it. They'll find it as alien as most of you view, "Whites Only," signs on public bathrooms, and Blacks sitting in the back of the bus... things I witnessed as a kid growing up in Houston during the '50's. They'll yawn, and wonder why they have to study such "ancient history," when it was never something they saw or experienced growing up.

I wish that would hurry up and happen. It will.



Keep D&D Civil.

 

A Southern Republican Governor defending gay rights? Yeah, when Kentucky freezes over. Or conservatives fly.

 

I have no problem with that, and in fact would encourage it.

 

The treatment of our black brothers is an outrages national shame which should never be treated again. i myself am not black, but to look at some and define by skin is nothing short of horrendus. people should allways look at the person and there deeds and not there clour.

 

Insightful, as usual.


(Hey Deckard, care to share your insights at my place for the draft? I'll be having a few Rocks fans over...it ain't a long drive. )

 

Same basic thing happened at Baylor - the largest Baptist university in the world.

http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2005/07/19/6

They took away a seminary student's scholarship away simply because he was gay. And everyone knows 90% of us Baylor students are only here because of lucrative scholarships.

According to Baylor's student handbook, the punishment for any misconduct -- including homosexuality, drinking alcohol and engaging in premarital sex -- carries a maximum penalty of expulsion. Bass said the administrators initially told him he could keep his scholarship if he would agree to be admitted to counseling, but he refused.

Counseling? I swear, this school...

 

I feel bad for the guy, but here comes the Gay and Lesbian clubs of America with full rides to whatever college the guy wants to go to.


In the end, victory will be his, and he'll be laughing at that petty little school.

 

So, basically, 95% of the school is just waiting to get caught?

 

We're a sneaky people.

 

Then you are being honest and fair--bravo. Conversly, I am sure that you would also support a private school that expells a person simply for declaring that they are Christian.(I'm not being sarcastic, btw)