Gay Student Expelled From Christian University

If a student wants to attend a university and that university has requirements, the student shouldn't be surprised upon being expelled after breaking the rules. The university, if private, has a right (in my opinion) to accept and educate whomever it pleases. If it wishes to accept only women or only one-legged circus victims, then so be it. Many judge such discrimination as unfair or unreasonable, and they might be right - but that doens't necessarily call for legislation.

I see private universities or companies as extentions of the individual. If I liked the color green and decided to invest large sums of money into companies with that color in their logo, that is my right. If I band together with a handful of others and we decide to establish a college centered on the color green and only to admit those with a green tattoos or a significant green wardrobe, we should be allowed. Of course, the requirements for accreditation should be applied consistently and there is nothing to say that the government would have to give the school money - or that people would actually enroll - or that corporations would respect the education of the graduates. In fact, it is probable that the outside funding and respect involved would be what you would expect given the strange enrollment criteria: very poor.

My point is that it should be left up to the person or organization to decide what they do with their funds or the businesses and institutions which they run (without infringing on Constitutional rights, of course). Instead, the government feels the pressure of its constituents, who seem to want the government to force everyone to treat them the way they want to be treated. This, of course, results in a large and generally ineffective government that relies not upon the principles of reason and representative democracy, but on the whims and fleeting wishes of the populous.

If the rule of the University had already been established, then it seems to me that Mr. Johnson was not reasoning very well when he made the decision to attend. If your old enough to attend a university, you should be old enough to assume responsability for your actions. I'm sure that this isn't the first occurance of this rule being enforced in the school's history, so what would be the basis for his immunity to it?

Also, how is the connection made between rules on sexual orientation and education? If the school were to fail in it's educational responsabilities it would seem plausible for the government to question it's funding. The discrimination made by the establishment of any rule is eventually self regulatory though in that people are not forced to attend. If there were low attendance due to the rules, the school would most likely make a change in order to continue as an organization.

If this school is private, why is it worried about losing its state funding. Receiving funds from the government somewhat erodes the status of a "private" school.

I see no problem with a private school kicking out whoever they want. Especially when they clearly state the expectations and the person in question doesn't act according to the expectations. However, the school then can't whine if the lose their NON-private funding from the state. That is the cost of doing business in our country right now.

Private institutions can basically discriminate (meaning choose between... you know, the real meaning of the word) in any way they please. But right now the government can't. So kick him out and lose the funding and be done with it.

This school as the right to ban whomever it wants to. That also mean we should put 99% the blame on the religion and social norms that have promulgated this kind of bigoted and stupidly immoral attitude.

I have a friend, he’s smart, educated, (a university professor), very social and probably one of my only Christian friend I never try to convince of otherwise because I know he just goes to church so that he can feel a little more normal… and he’s gay.

Now every now and then he gets sucked into unfortunate situations whether related to church, (some people that don’t know about it make prejudiced comments or something) , at his job (coworkers gang up on him even though he’s one the most preferred prof of his department according to students) or even with members of family who have difficulty accepting his homosexuality (the more christian ones).

Every 3 to 5 years this culminates in him disappearing for a few days leaving us with just a suicide note. He hasn’t killed himself yet although he ended up in hospital once or twice.

But hey, we can’t blame the Christians, right? As long as they don’t blow themselves up into public buildings they’re morally irreproachable right?