California Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year that a Christian high school has the right to forbid a lesbian relationship between its students. The parents of two students had sued California Lutheran High School because it suspended two teenage girls for having an inappropriate relationship. The court agreed with a lower court that religious schools are not subject to California laws that provide special protections based on sexual orientation.
“Christian schools should be able to make admission and discipline decisions consistent with their religious beliefs,” said Timothy J. Tracey, litigation counsel with the CLS Center for Law & Religious Freedom. The court ruled that “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.”
