Progress Through Lawful Discrimination

A new bill proposes an amendment to the Higher Education Act. Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) is seeking an exception in anti-dicscrimination provisions that would allow private Christian colleges to legally exclude students based on sexual orientation.

Should schools have the right to ask you about your sexual orientation? Should they have the right to reject students who refuse to answer? May they expel a student if they begin to think that the student is gay? Does a private group's right to discriminate supercede a private individual's right to an education?

Why should Christian schools, such as Pepperdine, Notre Dame, Samford, and Brigham Young, who lobbied for this legislation have such an exception while others are prohibited from discriminating? If it is a moral issue, shouldn't anyone be able to reject any applicant if they believe for any reason that the student's lifestyle is immoral or is the law simply more willing to agree that homosexuality is immoral?

Would the Christian groups who seek to discriminate accept the alternative of schools only for gay students? Somehow, I think they'd object to that proposal. Many Christian groups did in fact protest when Harvey Milk High School opened as a school for gay students, with protestors yelling "die fags."

Isn't this just leading to a re-segregation of society? Is that going to improve society?