The high school principal in a small South Carolina town announced that he would resign rather than allow gay students to form a club and meet at the school. The principal said that it was against his religious principles to extend equal rights to a gay group even though straight students routinely could meet on school grounds.

The local community rallied to the Principal’s principles, but the courts said no. If any student group can use school property, then all can.

South Carolina and many other southern States have historically been slow in understanding and accepting the US Constitution and its Amendments. They get as far as the Second Amendment –the right to bear arms, but then the rest remains rather fussy in their minds, particularly those amendments that grand equal civil rights to all citizens regardless of their color, sex, religion, native origin, or what they do in bed at night.

In Memphis a principal asked teachers for a list of couples to assist her in a fight against public displays of affection. She then posted the list in public for teachers, students, and parents to see. The two gay students shown above were outed by her action, and the principal is now facing a lawsuit.

Let's make it simple and on a level that high school principals everywhere can understand. Suppose a qualified Jew or Muslim or Hindu person became high school principal. Would you expect him to enforce his religious diet, holidays, head gear, or holy teachings on the students? Of course, not. Your religious principles are personal rights and privileged, but when it comes to enforcing them over everyone else’s rights, they are inappropriate and un-American.

The ones to be praised here are those gay students who report they are abused verbally and physically in a school system where the leaders are claiming to follow the teaching of the Nazarene who especially showed kindness to young people. Why is this "Christian principle" so difficult to understand and follow?