TheBoost said:
RicOlie_2 said:
On a more serious note, I'm disgusted at the bigotry being displayed towards Trinity Western's law school.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/lawyers+vote+overwhelmingly+against+Trinity+Western+school+amid+claims+discrimination/9926606/story.html#ixzz34NU8NWxh
It's a Christian law school--should they not be allowed to dictate their own rules? They aren't even discriminating against gays like people are claiming because the same rules apply to heterosexuals. I don't know how they enforce their rules which apply to the most private part of people's lives, but they should be allowed to do so. If people have a problem with that, they can go to a different school. I can't believe that people don't recognize that they are opposing freedom of religion when they oppose the rules upheld by the law school, but think they're doing a service to "gay rights" instead.
/rant
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert. Before clicking that link i didn't even know Canada has laws.
BUT sir, you're being extremely disingenuous if you say
They aren't even discriminating against gays like people are claiming because the same rules apply to heterosexuals.
Because the rule is:
They were particularly concerned about the import of the evangelical covenant that the university insists staff, faculty and students sign, which forbids sex outside of heterosexual marriage.
This is of itself, discriminatory.
In the past here in America, we had a law that said only white people could vote. Same rules applied to white and black people. Was that discriminatory?
I understand the reasoning, but I disagree with it. It's a Christian law school, and it prohibits sex outside of marriage. Period. Marriage in the Christian religion (aside from some more liberal denominations) is, by definition, between heterosexuals. It isn't discrimination, it's just what we consider marriage to be. Also, people choose to have sex, they don't choose to be black or white. The rules don't prohibit homosexuals from attending the school--that would indeed be wrongful discrimination--they just prohibit sex outside of marriage for staff/students in attendance.