Auckland schools require same-sex couples to sign 'I'm gay' contract

Posted by NewsEditor  at 10:57 PM (PT)
In: youth issues, schools, international
Friday August 29, 2008

Source: Dominion Post, GayNZ.com
Some New Zealand students are being prevented from taking same-sex partners to school balls unless they sign contracts confirming they are homosexual, says Rainbow Youth, an LGBT peer support group.

Serafin Dillon, education officer for Rainbow Youth, said she knows of four Auckland colleges that do not allow same-gender ball partners unless pupils sign contracts stating their sexual orientation.

"If this was in the workplace it would be discrimination and it would be unheard of. But because it's a school they think they can somehow get away with it."

Rongotai College pupil Joshua Wright, 16, told Dominion Post that policies discriminating against gay pupils were cruel and unfair. He planned to take a male ball partner. "If [the school] ask me to sign a contract, I'm going to say `no' and just go anyway."

The Human Rights Commission has said excluding someone on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender is potentially unlawful, Dominion Post reports.

In 2001, then-education minister Trevor Mallard said after a similar controversy at Westlake Girls High School that he opposed schools barring same-sex partners.

It apparently worked at that school, because Westlake pupil Tammy Webster, 18, the Post she was allowed to take a female partner to this year's ball without signing any contract

Source: Gay pupils face bar on taking partners to ball | Dominion Post
Same-sex dates to sign School Ball pledge | GayNZ.com

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Robbie C., USA
Robbie C., USA
8/30/2008 3:00:04 PM #
Are they requiring those professing to be "straight" to file an oath as well? And if someone professes to be straight, how do they know? Do they propose giving tests, maybe a multiple exam after they watch some porn or other movies. Why don't they just let teenagers figure this out on their own and experiment if needed.

If they are imposing standards like this on gay kids, then they need to set standards for straight kids, like limiting how many partners, sexual or otherwise, the straight kids can have in any school year or term. They should have religious police checking to see that girls are dressed appropriately, with nothing too sexy to attract other boys (or even lesbian girls).

Sex needs to be regulated in high school, by God, or else we may end up with a bunch of repressed people who are screwed up for life, thinking that sex is dirty and perverse. What about the extinction of the species, when everyone is afraid to have sex?

But that is not a worry. They should impose requirements on straight kids that mandate that straight teenagers cannot have sex unless they avoid protection and condoms. God didn't make sex to have people screw it up and avoid having as many children as possible. There is nothing wrong with 14-year-old girls having several kids. It gives them a head start on the life of misery they are bound to have when they are living in trailer parks anyway.

Let's all get this straight: Sex is for making babies and what we need on this planet is teenage girl having four or five babies, while still attending high school. That way, we will never be without enough kids in future years to fill every school we can build. God wants it that way, and we should continue to fill up this planet with as many unwanted pregnancies as God allows.

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