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Another thread full of toddy bull shite that got absolutely assaulted by facts.

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This bill allows schools to discriminate on a wide range of criteria, including, but not limited to, sexual orientation. It's just a bad bill introduced with the meanest of intentions.

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You have a brain, use it.

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That's the bill and it limits the definition of discrimination to what is already codified in Louisiana law. However, schools are held to a higher standard that includes additional categories like sexual orientation and athletic performance.

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Legislation introduced Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat from Boulder, would make discrimination or harassment of gay, bisexual or transgender students in public schools against federal law.

The bill effectively extends the same protection against discrimination that exists for women and minorities in public schools to gender identity or "perceived gender identity," allowing victims to sue schools in federal court.

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Someone needs to remind Toddy of all his despicable acts, such as petitioning for closures of restaurants, removal of apps, etc. I find what Toddy does to be even more despicable.

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§111. Discrimination in public schools prohibited; pupil assignment; religious educational institutions

A. No person shall be refused admission into or be excluded from any public school in the state of Louisiana on account of race, creed, color, disability, as defined in R.S. 51:2232(11), or national origin.

B. Except with the express approval of a board of education or school board having jurisdiction, a majority of the members of such board having been elected, no student shall be assigned or compelled to attend any school on account of race, creed, color or national origin, or for the purpose of achieving equality in attendance or increased attendance or reduced attendance, at any school, of persons of one or more particular races, creeds, colors or national origins, and no school district, school zone or attendance unit, by whatever name known, shall be established, reorganized or maintained for any such purpose, provided that nothing contained in this section shall prevent the assignment of a pupil in the manner requested or authorized by his parents or guardian, and provided further that nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect, in any way, the right of a religious or denominational educational institution to select its pupils exclusively or primarily from members of such religion or denomination or from giving preference to such selection to such members or to make such selection to its pupils as is calculated to promote the religious principle for which it is established.

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State Sen. A.G. Crowe would have us believe that Senate Bill 217, his attempt to prohibit government contracts from including broad nondiscriminatory language, is a dry, legalistic matter. No, this isn't about promoting intolerance, Crowe's designated surrogate, LSU law professor Randy Trahan, insisted during last week's Labor Committee hearing on the bill. It's merely about the separation of powers, about executive agencies usurping legislative authority by imposing conditions lawmakers haven't specifically authorized. Like the Department of Education, which requires publicly funded charter schools to swear they don't discriminate based on a list of criteria including special needs, athletic ability, English language proficiency, and the big one, sexual orientation.

"The point of this bill is very simple," Crowe said. "Stick to the law."

Those were his words, anyway.

Too bad they were belied by just about everything about the hearing he chaired.

There was the testimony of his star witness, Leslie Ellison, who introduced herself as the president of a New Orleans charter board she refused to name (it's Milestone SABIS academy, according to the school's website). She clearly tipped proponents' hands when she recounted her offense at being asked to sign a charter renewal containing the non-discrimination language. Citing "religious purposes" and "religious freedom," she said she refused to endorse the document, and pointed to the sexual orientation provision as the reason why.

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Like the Department of Education, which requires publicly funded charter schools to swear they don't discriminate based on a list of criteria including special needs, athletic ability, English language proficiency, and the big one, sexual orientation.

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LA Senate panel approves bill to allow banning gay kids from charter schools

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In a move that is backed by the Louisiana Family Council, a state Senate committee has approved a GOP bill that would make it legal for charter schools to refuse admittance to gay children. The bill also authorizes schools to turn away students with poor English skills and with physical challenges. Charter schools are private institutions contracted by the state to serve public school students.

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This bill allows schools to discriminate on a wide range of criteria, including, but not limited to, sexual orientation. It's just a bad bill introduced with the meanest of intentions.

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How does everyone interpret this paragraph?

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Is this to stop disabled children, gays and students who don't speak English fluently from using an excuse to enter charter schools based on discrimination

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So you don't object to taxpayer-funded, charter schools being able to eject or reject gay students from attending? Because that looks like what the Department of Education guidelines are designed to prevent

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So show me where sexual orientation is a protected class in Louisiana.

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