Religious high school has right to expel lesbian girls, rules California court
”The whole purpose of sending one’s child to a religious school is to ensure that he or she learns even secular subjects within a religious framework.”
Justice Betty Richli of the 4th District Appeals Court in San Bernadino, CA, in a unanimous, 3-0, ruling that determined that a religious school had the right to expel two 16-year-old girls for engaging in a lesbian relationship. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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