Feel the Christian Love: Expel the Gay

[panzerfaust]

A SENIOR Anglican bishop {Episcopalian nee Roman Catholic} calls it "appalling" and a gay and lesbian rights group condemns it as "deeply offensive", but the {Australian} Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, backs a NSW {New South Wales, an Oz State} law that allows private schools to expel gay students simply for being gay.

Through a spokesman, Mr Hatzistergos, described the 30-year-old law as necessary "to maintain a sometimes delicate balance between protecting individuals from unlawful discrimination while allowing people to practise their own beliefs"...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney declined to distance itself from the legislation. A spokeswoman said: "The focus for our schools has always been on supporting our students regardless of the circumstances."...

{The Australian Christian Lobby says} ... "I think that you explain: this is a Christian school, that unless the child is prepared to accept that it is chaste, that it is searching for alternatives as well, that the school may decide that it might be better for the child as well that he goes somewhere else. I think it's a loving response."

more ... http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/appalling-law-lets-schools-expel-gay-students-20110211-1aqk2.html

Ah yes, a loving response.

Myself, I take it as just another manifestation of the intolerant, controlling, unaccepting, judgmental, and frightening worldview that has led the Abrahamic religions to drench the world in blood and fear for so many centuries.

[LynneSin]

1. These aren't Christians, they hardly follow the word of Christ. They are Paulists

That claim Christianity as their own.

People who truly follow the words of Jesus Christ could never be intolerant - that was not the way of Jesus. Paul, on the other hand, could be intolerant.

[xchrom]

2. +1

[LAGC]

3. "No True Scotsman" fallacy on the very first reply!

Bravo!

(In all fairness, I'm sure most "Paulists" don't consider liberals to be "true" Christians either.)

[Hydra]

5. Oh course not- Jesus wasn't a liberal! :p n/t

[MrModerate]

4. As a general rule, the religious extremists are not catered to here in Australia . . .

But they do have their supporters and their wicked, wicked ways.

On the other hand, you might make a case that -- whatever one's sexual orientation -- if the school says you must remain chaste and you don't, then they could rightly expel you for your behavior.

As long as they insist that all their students behave chastely, and the heterosexuals who don't are also expelled. And that's not the case here.