Look, I'm agnostic on this question. I do think that there is a huge difference between a priest being forced to engage in the behavior of giving a sacrament to anyone, like the sacrament of marriage, and a school being allowed to keep children out because they think the children have the status of being gay, a status which might not reveal itself in behavior on school grounds in any way. I think it's funny that people mention the right of schools to discriminate on moral content; is any school out there saying "Your daughter can't come to our school because we have an intuition she's a bad person"? Not because of some behavior, but because they believed she was a bad person. Of course that doesn't happen; schools don't think that they can intuit that kind of thing, and anyway don't care. As usual, people are more interested in adjudicating and judging homosexuality than in doing so for morality.
2009-01-28 19:04:46
A little checking tells me that all private schools in California are eligible for some sort of tax breaks, although it seems that not all of them take advantage of that opportunity.
2009-01-28 18:57:44
quite frankly that school, so long as it doesn’t accept public money, is well within their rights to do so.
All private schools have some sort of tax subsidy, so they are in effect taking public moneys already.
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Look, I'm agnostic on this question. I do think that there is a huge difference between a priest being forced to engage in the behavior of giving a sacrament to anyone, like the sacrament of marriage, and a school being allowed to keep children out because they think the children have the status of being gay, a status which might not reveal itself in behavior on school grounds in any way. I think it's funny that people mention the right of schools to discriminate on moral content; is any school out there saying "Your daughter can't come to our school because we have an intuition she's a bad person"? Not because of some behavior, but because they believed she was a bad person. Of course that doesn't happen; schools don't think that they can intuit that kind of thing, and anyway don't care. As usual, people are more interested in adjudicating and judging homosexuality than in doing so for morality.
A little checking tells me that all private schools in California are eligible for some sort of tax breaks, although it seems that not all of them take advantage of that opportunity.
quite frankly that school, so long as it doesn’t accept public money, is well within their rights to do so.
All private schools have some sort of tax subsidy, so they are in effect taking public moneys already.