What Do You Out Lesbians Out There Think of This One ?

School can expel lesbian students, court rules

An appeals panel finds California Lutheran High School in Riverside County is not a business and therefore doesn't have to comply with a state law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.

By Maura Dolan
January 28, 2009

Reporting from San Francisco -- After a Lutheran school expelled two 16-year-old girls for having "a bond of intimacy" that was "characteristic of a lesbian relationship," the girls sued, contending the school had violated a state anti-discrimination law.

In response to that suit, an appeals court decided this week that the private religious school was not a business and therefore did not have to comply with a state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating. A lawyer for the girls said Tuesday that he would ask the California Supreme Court to overturn the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal.

The appeals court called its decision "narrow," but lawyers on both sides of the case said it would protect private religious schools across California from such discrimination suits.

Kirk D. Hanson, who represented the girls, said the "very troubling" ruling would permit private schools to discriminate against anyone, as long as the schools used their religious beliefs as justification.

"It is almost like it could roll back 20 to 30 years of progress we have made in this area," said the San Diego attorney. "Basically, this decision gives private schools the license to discriminate."

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San Francisco, isn't this the "Gay Bay" ? I mean if you can Not Be Out and Proud in San Francisco then where can you ? What are us Out Lesbians with MAJOR online presence going to Do about this One.. hmmmm. ENOUGH is ENOUGH.

Lesbian Soldier WINS Discrimination Case..

Lesbian Soldier Kerry Fletcher wins £187,000 Harassment Payout

A Lesbian Soldier who claimed that she was sexually harrassed by a male sergeant has been awarded £187,000 in compensation.

Lance Bombardier, Kerry Fletcher, 32, of the Royal Artillery, had sought £400,000. She told an employment tribunal in Leeds in November last year that her career in the Army had collapsed after she was propositioned by a sergeant. He suggested that she join in a threesome with another woman and that he might be able to convert her from being Lesbian.

The incident took place in Royal Artillery stables in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, and the tribunal was told that she was subjected to a sustained campaign of victimisation after she rejected the advances. John Mackenzie, her solicitor, said that her position had become untenable after she had won her case against the MoD. Lance Bombardier Fletcher will end her career early next year after 12 years. The tribunal said: “This is as severe a case of victimisation following an allegation of sexual harassment as one could see in an employment tribunal.”

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Well How Many of us Out Lesbian have Heard that One. So Many Mighty Men
Going to be Able to Convert Us. By the Look in this Gal's Eyes I would Say She
Has Had Enough.. and She has Made a Public Smack for All of Us Out Lesbians.

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Thank You Kerry Fletcher ... From All of Us at OutLesbian.com

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