Discrimination Ironies
Homosexual group preaches one message but lives by another.
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, students at Pioneer High School are learning a lesson in homosexual discrimination. Only, this discrimination comes with an ironic twist.
It began early this school year when the district asked all campus clubs to sign a non-discrimination policy. The policy prohibits discrimination based on, among other things, sexual orientation. Finding this untenable given their religious conviction, the Christian club requested and received an exemption.
Students in the homosexual club cried foul. According to the gay club’s faculty advisor, “Either we have a non-discrimination policy or we don’t.”
Now you, like I, may wonder what forms of discrimination homosexual students face? Separate lunchrooms? Straights only sports? School buses segregated by sexual orientation? Ah, but I digress.
The school year progressed fairly quietly, until Diversity Week rolled around, which included a panel on sexuality and religion hosted by the Gay Straight Alliance. Gay Straight Alliances or GSAs supposedly are student clubs where kids meet to discuss issues related sexuality.
However, in addition to being misnamed (hardly any straights participate in GSAs), these clubs act as springboards for gay activism within schools. But I digress yet again.
As the event approached, Christian club students asked to participate in the aforementioned panel, a request GSA leaders refused. Instead, the GSA invited local clergy who supported the GSA’s position and excluded any representation from the Christian club. The reason, according to a Pioneer High teacher: “It was ‘their’ panel and the week was all about emphasizing the ‘positives’” of homosexuality.
And so it appears Pioneer High students are indeed learning a valuable lesson. Preaching non-discrimination is easier than living by it.
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