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June 30, 2006

Christian Private Schools Coming to an End in California

by @ 3:52 pm. Filed under Education, Evangelicals Under Attack

I mentioned the matter of some girls being expelled from a California Christian Private school for immoral sexual behavior (lesbian activity) in a prior post. Now California’s State Supreme Court has shown that the state is devoid of respect of the US Constitution and allowing a lawsuit by the girls’ parents to proceed.

Girls suspected of being lesbians can sue school

The California Supreme Court today allowed two Riverside County girls to sue a Christian high school that expelled them because the principal believed they were lesbians.

The court unanimously denied review of an appeal by the California Lutheran High School Association, which argued that a religious school has the right to exclude gays and lesbians, regardless of California’s anti-discrimination law. Today’s action did not resolve that issue but allowed the suit to proceed toward a possible trial.

The girls, both juniors at the school in the town of Wildomar, were expelled in September. According to their lawsuit, which was filed in December, school principal Gregory Bork said he had learned that the students might be involved in a relationship, and coerced one of them into saying she loved the other one.

In a letter to the girls’ parents, Bork said the students had violated the school’s code of conduct, which prohibits actions “contrary to Christian decency.” The school is owned by the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, which considers homosexuality sinful.

“Any implementation of the Unruh Act would contradict the stated position of (the school) that homosexuality is immoral,” John McKay, an attorney for the school, wrote in asking the state Supreme Court to halt the lawsuit.

In addition to freedom of religion, he said, the constitutional guarantee of freedom of association trumps any state law that “forces the group to accept members that it does not desire.” He cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2000 ruling that allowed the Boy Scouts to exclude a gay man as a troop leader in New Jersey despite an anti-discrimination law in that state.

As I mentioned in my prior post, this is the beginning of the end of what is currently known as “private schools”, Christian Private Schools in particular. Because various lobbies for sinful activity have set their sights on abolishing Christian private schools and they now have enough Liberals in government to help them possibly make it happen. (So long as Christians don’t take a firm stand against this.) If the CA case proceeds and the plaintiffs are successful, it will mean that Christian private schools in that state will no longer be able to protect their students from immoral influences. And it gets worse! Because once Christian private schools must keep immoral students in the population, those immoral students will be able to decline and do away with all teaching of morality in the school. They will be able to say that any claims made that the gay lifestyle is immoral are “hate speech” and claim it is “discrimination”, although what they call discrimination is true righteousness. Once the morality is gone, these Christian schools will fall apart from within. Next students that don’t wish to hear any Christian teaching at all will claim they too must be admitted or allowed to stay if already there. They will use twisted Godless claims that they have the right to not be discriminated against, because they have no desire to hear Christian teaching and not allowing them in denies them their desired level of quality education. (Quality in terms of state standards, not standards of faith.) Any attempts to segregate the heathens will raise the old “separate but equal” violations of the old Civil Rights movement. But this time it won’t be an issue of the color of skin, but fully an issue of the content of character.

So unless our Liberal leaning US Supreme Court is turned more Conservative, California will no longer have anything like what is currently known as a “Christian Private School”. Christians will need to stand for what they believe in or see the heathens take all establishments (even private ones) that dare mention the faith.



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