US schools allowed to discriminate against LGBT kids to be named and shamed
A list of religious schools in the US which receive public money but are exempt from LGBT discrimination laws will be published.
The Department of Education announced that religious schools which receive federal money yet which have been granted federal exemptions to discriminate against LGBT students and staff will be named and shamed.
A letter to politicians from the Department of Education published by BuzzFeed news states that waivers granted to religious schools will be published.
Last month eight US Senators had requested for the practice of obtaining the waivers to be made more transparent.
Title IX of the Education Act, written in 1972, means schools with public funding cannot discriminate.
However religious schools were granted a waiver by Congress.
Responding to the Senators assistant secretary for civil rights at the Education Department, Catherine Lhamon, said the waivers will be posted “on our website with a basic search tool so that applicants, students, parents, and others can be better informed about which educational institutions have sought and/or received a religious exemption.”
BuzzFeed has published the full letter from Lhamon here.
It notes that as of December, no school’s request for a waiver has ever been denied.
Lhamon wrote, “I appreciate your suggestion the we provide more transparency about the religious exemption requests received and [the department’s] responses. I agree.”
Both applications and letters to grant the waivers will be published on the website.
The Department of Education announced that religious schools which receive federal money yet which have been granted federal exemptions to discriminate against LGBT students and staff will be named and shamed.
A letter to politicians from the Department of Education published by BuzzFeed news states that waivers granted to religious schools will be published.
Last month eight US Senators had requested for the practice of obtaining the waivers to be made more transparent.
Title IX of the Education Act, written in 1972, means schools with public funding cannot discriminate.
However religious schools were granted a waiver by Congress.
Responding to the Senators assistant secretary for civil rights at the Education Department, Catherine Lhamon, said the waivers will be posted “on our website with a basic search tool so that applicants, students, parents, and others can be better informed about which educational institutions have sought and/or received a religious exemption.”
It notes that as of December, no school’s request for a waiver has ever been denied.
Lhamon wrote, “I appreciate your suggestion the we provide more transparency about the religious exemption requests received and [the department’s] responses. I agree.”
Both applications and letters to grant the waivers will be published on the website.
Two words I have for these schools:
ReplyDeleteBURN THEM!
And three words I have also:
BURN THEM DOWN!
And to the people who rule these schools:
HANG THEM!
Or even better:
THROW THEM OFF THE ROOFS OF THEIR OWN BUILDINGS!
We are fighting religious terrorists in the Middle East, religious terrorists who throw people of high buildings because these people are homosexual, we fight religious terrorists who murder people who are not following the teachings of the religious terrorists, and thus we fight them, we bomb them, we do our utmost best to eradicate them from the earth, we use drones to kill their religious leaders, we use our values and norms to fight the religious terrorists in the Middle East, and we do our best to move them to the place they belong in: HELL!
And meanwhile at home, in our own country we are enabling religious Christians to name and shame our children, for being homosexual!
Can someone explain to me the difference between the religious terrorists in the Middle East and the religious terrorists in our own country when they in fact do the same thing?
If a group is throwing individuals off high buildings for being homosexual, and naming an shaming individuals in publications causing their death.... WHAT is the difference?
Religious terrorists are religious terrorists, regardless of them being Muslim or Christian, religious terrorists ARE religious terrorists!
THAT is why I consider the religious terrorists in the United States of America equal to the religious terrorists in the Middle East, and THAT is why I propose the same punishment to the religious terrorists in the USA, the same actions of punishment as we enforce on the religious terrorists in the Middle East: bombing them, eradicating them, drone-killing their leaders, and throw themoff their own high buildings!
As a signal to all opponents of religious terrorism, that we enforce our values abroad and at home,and that we do not allow people to be discriminated on basis of their sexual orientation, young or old, make or female!
A country that acts with a double standard in matters that are equal is a country that not only has lost its values, norms and credits, but that country has lost its credibility, its honor and its dignity!
And a country without honor and dignity..... has lost its right to existence!