TheBoost said:
RicOlie_2 said:
TheBoost said:
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.
Again, not claiming to know anything about Canadian law, education, or customs (don't they have some kind of tribal vendetta system?) but "It's not discrimination, it's just discrimination" doesn't hold water.
The house I used to live in, on the deed said "This house cannot be sold to Jews." That's not discrimination. The same rules applied to non-Jews. Is that discrimination?
Of course it's still discrimination. What I'm complaining about here would be more like the deed saying that the house could not be rented out and people complaining about discrimination against renting it out to Jews.
When we were beating Native Americans who spoke their own language or practiced their own religion in forced boarding schools, those rules against speaking and practicing also applied to white Christians. Was that discrimination?
No, it wasn't discrimination any more than Alexander the Great's Hellenization of his empire. It was unjust, but the residential schools were not discriminatory. The Europeans had conquered the territory, and like most conquerors do, they submitted the conquered peoples to their rule. It wasn't in the form of an actual invasion and war (though their were wars), but the outcome was the same.
If the issue is "This Christian school has the right to discriminate" then that's a different question. But let's not do some mental hoop jumping to act like it's not discrimination.
It's a private university, so it should be able to ask for Christian conduct. According to Christian religious belief, gay marriages are not genuine marriages.
Discrimination would look more like this:
heterosexuals can have sex; homosexuals must abstain from sex.
However, the rule is that everyone must practice abstinence unless they are married. There is equal "discrimination" against the unmarried, so why aren't their rights being defended? Why is the prohibition of homosexual sex being singled out?