It’s simple: if you receive government funds, you have to play by a well-defined set of rules, if you don’t then you only have to play by a much smaller set of rules. This, it seems to me, works fairly well for all of us.
California’s 4th District Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a Christian school can expel students based on sexual orientation. Now, while I don’t personally agree with this kind of discrimination, I have no problem with a Christian school–that receives no government funding*–making their own rules on who can attend and who can’t.
True, this case turned on a California state anti-discrimination law, but it does demonstrate something I feel strongly about: don’t inject religion into public and otherwise secular schools, and we won’t hold your religious schools to the same standards of decency. See, Separation of Church and State works for all of us.
nkb
* Of course, why we would subsidize this type of unadulterated bigotry with tax-breaks is another question, but one well-worth asking.
