University not paid for being homophobic

[operafan]

When the Kentucky university kicked out a student for merely being gay, they didn't realize that it would cost them a proposed pharmacy school. For these religious schools, kicking them in the money pants will be about the only thing that will get their attention:

The Kentucky court came down strongly against state support for a religious college at a time when other courts have made it easier for such government aid. And the decision marked an unusual endpoint to the university's decision in 2006 to expel a student for being gay. That expulsion led the Kentucky Fairness Alliance, a gay rights group, to take a closer look at the university -- and to challenge lawmakers' subsequent decision to support a pharmacy school there.


Jody Cofer, a board member of the alliance, said in an interview Thursday that she felt that the Supreme Court's action had brought some justice to the university's dealings with the state. She said she recognized that, as a religious institution, Cumberlands had the legal right to kick out gay students. But she said that when the university tried to get state money, it went too far.

http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/dialog/news/2010/04/23/kentucky

 

[Lukeee]

Maybe I'm not reading this right but I don't see how this is a good thing. Sure it is wrong what they did but by not building that school aren't they just denying education to people? Not building a school doesn't do any good for the world. I'm sure not all of the people in that school support what happened and not building the school is just taking away their education.

They should just change the law so they can't kick gay people out. Or any other people for stupid reasons.

 

[MercuryJones]

Maybe I'm not reading this right but I don't see how this is a good thing. Sure it is wrong what they did but by not building that school aren't they just denying education to people? Not building a school doesn't do any good for the world.

Cumberlands is affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention, and has never tried to deny that it is a religious institution. And Kentucky's Constitution, the court noted, states that "no portion of any fund or tax now existing, or that may hereafter be raised or levied for educational purposes, shall be appropriated to, or used by, or in aid of, any church, sectarian or denominational school."

It's a constitutional matter.

 

[Swellegant]

Not building a pharmacy school at a particular university harms no one: the school will be built elsewhere, trust me. And it will be built someplace where students can access it no matter their religious affiliation or sexual orientation.

This is only fair: if institutions are going to hide behind separation of church and state when it comes to governing their policies, they have to take that same separation when it comes to funding and benefits. You can't have it both ways.

It's like the Boy Scouts, they hid behind their status as a private faith-based organization so they could maintain their anti-gay stances, but they call themselves an American Institution when they are denied access to federal facilities and state funding because of that stance. You just can't have it both ways.

If you want to do things your own way, you have to pay for it yourself.

 

[PolterGUYst]

Too bad so sad

 

[Críostóir]

Happy happy joy joy! Schadenfreude too.

 

[levenshulme31]

Surely a pharmacology departmentat a Christian university is an oxymoron anyway.

Pray three times a day before meals to expel the demons. If you see no improvement in five days you must be one of Satan's minions. Your suffereing is deserved and will continue for eternity.

May cause drowsiness.

 

[Críostóir]

Surely a pharmacology department at a Christian university is an oxymoron anyway.

Pray three times a day before meals to expel the demons. If you see no improvement in five days you must be one of Satan's minions. Your suffering is deserved and will continue for eternity.

May cause drowsiness.

You're using an incorrect formula. You think that FX = 100CE (where FX is the approximate year from which the Fundamentalist Christian grasp of science comes); the correct formula is FX = CY - 100 (where CY stands for Current Year) (except on matters of human descent, in which case FX = 1858CE is the correct formula).

More seriously, it's a pharmacy school (to train people to be pharmacists who presumably would refuse to dispense emergency birth control, another reason to be glad these assholes didn't get their money) not a pharmacology department (which would teach people how drugs act on the body, a related but distinct area of study).

 

[Speeds]

That's amazing.

 

[braex27]

Yes, kick 'em in the money bags!!