Discrimination against a Christian?

[Jon71]

They're a school that openly discriminates and tells their students not to engage in same sex relationships. This company is in the wrong. The school also is in the wrong. This applicant is about the only person who did nothing wrong here, except perhaps choose a school with a poor reputation.

The company is definitely wrong, you're right about that. I had never heard of this school before but I'm getting the impression that it's akin to Bob Jones University in S. Carolina which leaves me inclined to say a pox on both their houses.

 

[Jon71]

That's not discrimination based on orientation (who a person is), it's discrimination based on behavior (what a person chooses to do). There is a marked difference between the two.

Wrong. People don't decide to be gay, someone simply is gay or straight or bi. Discriminating against someone who is gay whether or not they're married to someone of their own gender is discrimination. I don't know Canadian law well enough to know if this "university" can do that legally or not but even if it is legal it's still an @$$hole move on their part.

 

[Jon71]

Mendalla, you posted,

Where are the different standards? If you're gay, straight, or anything else, they're okay with you being married to a person of the opposite gender.

That is the argument that racists used to defend the anti-miscegeny laws. They weren't discriminatory because white people could still marry white people and black people could still marry black people so no one was discriminated against, right? The Supreme Court rejected that argument unanimously in Loving v. Virginia.

 

[Jaebius]

Wrong. People don't decide to be gay, someone simply is gay or straight or bi. Discriminating against someone who is gay whether or not they're married to someone of their own gender is discrimination. I don't know Canadian law well enough to know if this "university" can do that legally or not but even if it is legal it's still an @$$hole move on their part.

Jon - I agree with you - Sexual orientation is not chosen.

However, sexual behavior is certainly a matter of choice, and it is the behavior which the school is moderating.

 

[Jon71]

Jon - I agree with you - Sexual orientation is not chosen.

However, sexual behavior is certainly a matter of choice, and it is the behavior which the school is moderating.

Are you saying that it's o.k. for someone to be gay so long as they marry someone of the other gender and only have sex with that person, because it's seems that this "University" is saying that? That's disingenuous at best and shady at worst.

 

[revjohn]

I don't know Canadian law well enough to know if this "university" can do that legally or not but even if it is legal it's still an @$$hole move on their part.

Universities fall under the jurisdiction of the province in which they reside. TWU has a charter from the Province of British Columbia granting it the right to award degrees at the undgraduate and graduate levels.

The Community Covenant for TWU is found here:
http://www.twu.ca/studenthandbook/university-policies/community-covenant-agreement.html

 

[Ritafee]

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2014/10/20141010-131956.html

In the comments posted under this article a fellow called Tom Forsythe said (and I agree)...

• Let employers and workers discriminate all they want, based on whatever criteria they think are important. Freedom of Association means you have the right to not associate with people you don't like.

• By not hiring the best applicants, bigots will harm their own competitiveness. They will also lose the business of the groups they display prejudice toward.

• If we eliminate the grievance industry, we would save millions of dollars and free up the talents of people who are currently wasting their lives trying to police the thoughts and intentions of Canadians.

 

[Jaebius]

Are you saying that it's o.k. for someone to be gay so long as they marry someone of the other gender and only have sex with that person, because it's seems that this "University" is saying that? That's disingenuous at best and shady at worst.

No, I'm not saying that, and I don't feel that the university is necessarily saying that either. Their issue seems to be with setting certain behavioral standards for their learning community. Nothing wrong with those which they've set imho.