The Associated Press reports that two 16 year-old girls were expelled from a California Lutheran high school “because they were suspected of being lesbians.” Suspected? Ugh.
The lawsuit, filed last week in Riverside County Superior Court, seeks the girls' re-enrollment at the small California Lutheran High School, unspecified damages and an injunction barring the school from excluding gays and lesbians....The lawsuit alleges that the school's principal, Gregory Bork, called the girls into his office, grilled them on their sexual orientation and "coerced" one girl into saying she loved the other.
The next day, the lawsuit says, Bork told the girls' parents they could not stay at the school with "those feelings." In a Sept. 12 letter to the parents, Bork acknowledged that officials had seen no physical contact between the girls but said their friendship was "uncharacteristic of normal girl relationships and more characteristic of a lesbian one."
Bork wrote in the letter that the relationship violated the school’s Christian Code of Conduct and that their behavior was “scandalous” and “immoral.”
The girls’ lawyer noted that the school must comply with state civil rights laws and that the principal’s letter was chock full of hypocrisy: “The school is claiming the girls were expelled because their conduct wasn't within the Christian code. But at the same time, (the school) has students who aren't Christians and are even Jewish.”
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Amongst the vast array of fuckedupedness of this, might I point out how bizarre it is that a Lutheran school principle is in tune enough with the queer community to determine that "their friendship was 'uncharacteristic of normal girl relationships and more characteristic of a lesbian one.'"
Principal Pinhead might have had a case for expelling these girls if they had been caught having hot lesbian sex in, say, his office. But to kick them out of his school because he thinks their friendship MIGHT be "characteristic of a lesbian one" is foolish and wrong on so many levels that I am literally left speechless.
As for violating the school's Christian code of conduct, it sounds like this principal has no idea what the underlying principles of Christianity are. Whatever happened to loving one's neighbor, being merciful and forgiving, and letting he who is without sin cast the first stone ... not to mention suffering the children to come unto the Lord?
It's also amazingly, bone-headedly stupid to expose your school to lawsuit and ridicule to satisfy your own prejudices and prurient sexual speculation. But I'm sure he's piling up rewards heaven.