Same-sex Couple Banned from Formal - Page 15

On November 12 2010 23:38 Zoler wrote:
Things like this keep making me doubt USA being a civilized country. -.-

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On November 13 2010 02:17 a176 wrote:
Of course the school is not going to allow it. It took me all of a minute to find this,

On November 13 2010 02:26 Carentino wrote:


You can't take that quote to mean what you say becuase depending on there placement on the conservative liberal scale they might not have anything against homosexuality. For example I can mention that one of the bishops of the swedish church is a lesbian. So unless you know exactly where they stand you can't take the stand you seem to do.

On November 12 2010 03:39 FishForThought wrote:
... it would be discrimination if they refuse to let her join the formal because of her sexual orientation but it is not discrimination to forbid her to bring guest of the same sex. The formal is hosted by the school, they have all rights to create rules and guidelines for the event. If the event specified that all guests must be males, then there is no discrimination involved.

People need to stop getting all defensive and insecure about these things; sooner or later people will cry sexist for not being able to get into an all female/male school because he or she is not that gender, or cry free speech violation for not being able to enter a restaurant nude.

On November 13 2010 01:59 Asjo wrote:
I'm curious, since you sound so certain that they are lying, what do you feel puts you in a position to judge whether they are lying.

On November 13 2010 02:54 red_b wrote:



historical precedent.

On November 13 2010 02:59 Asjo wrote:
If only using historical precedent, you would have to conclude they aren't lying. Since, after all, historically, schools surely haven't lied about the majority of decisions of this kind.

On November 13 2010 03:08 red_b wrote:


except for that school that told the lesbian girl their prom was canceled then held a secret one she couldnt go to?

http://sdgln.com/news/2010/10/26/mississippi-school-pays-dearly-denying-lesbian-student-constance-mcmillen-her-prom-w

On November 13 2010 04:18 FabledIntegral wrote:
I have a question for people that keep using hte "private argument." This is not rhetorical, it's an actual question in which I don't know the answer.

Why can private schools discriminate, but private businesses cannot? For example, if I want to open my own restaurant, not funded by the government or anything, I cannot refuse service to homosexual couples, minorities, whites, etc. Where in the law does it make schools exempt?

On November 13 2010 03:15 Scrapiron wrote:
It is a:
PRIVATE SCHOOL
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
And they can do whatever they want in regards to situations like this.
My school (Private, Christian) Expelled a student who became openly gay.

Its my guess that if the other students there are Christian, the girls' relationship makes them very uncomfortable and probably would not be unhappy with a similar decision.

Also, whats with the pitiful "they took our posters down!" of course they did, it is not an open forum for discussion there. You go to a school like that, you play by their rules. END OF STORY.

On November 13 2010 04:24 Ympulse wrote:

It actually depends on what kind of business you are undertaking and wether or not it's open to the public. You can't open a pizza parlor and say 'heterosexual adult white males only' but you could, for example, provide an invite-only service of whatever sort (we'll say a gun club, for sake of argument) and you're able to discriminate however you please.

On November 13 2010 04:29 FabledIntegral wrote:


So say I wanted an invite-only service for a gun club. I could openly state "invitations will only be given out to heterosexual white males. No homosexuals, minorities, or females allowed. If we find out you have any color in your blood you will be asked to leave."