They suspended this girl for coming out as a lesbian on Facebook, and withheld her degree. Threatened to retaliate if she made further comments on social media.

Sick sad fucks.

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    SCOTUS has ruled that privately held companies can have religious discrimination, established in Burwell v Hobby Lobby (2014) allowed hobby lobby to refuse providing contraceptive Healthcare coverage to their employees. I would not be surprised by the current court siding with the school over the student.

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      Except she isn’t employed by the school her parents presumably paid for a service that was withdrawn on false grounds.

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        Might depend on the school’s started reasoning. If being gay was against the “school rules” they could have a valid reason for removing the student.

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          Private schools in the US have historically been a way to shut out the “wrong” kind of kid anyway.

          As a “fun” exercise, if you are in the US, look up when your state was desegregated and compare to your local non-Catholic private schools’ founding dates…

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      I feel like before it even got that far she could just go to whatever job or college she’s trying to apply to with a news story about her high school being stupid for proof of education and a few letters of recommendation for proof of character and just skip the diploma altogether