Philippine court halts grad ban over bikini photos
Source: AP-Excite
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Philippine court on Thursday ordered a Catholic girls' school to allow five students to attend graduation ceremonies after they were barred over photos on Facebook that showed them wearing bikinis.
Judge Wilfredo Navarro of central Cebu City issued a restraining order against St. Theresa's College High School, calling its decision to ban the students from Friday afternoon's ceremonies un-Christian and unlawful.
School officials took action against the girls for what they called "engaging in immoral, indecent, obscene or lewd acts," according to court records. They allowed the students to graduate but not participate in activities or ceremonies.
The judge ordered the school to allow the girls to join the graduates' procession. The school declined to comment, but asked the court to reconsider on Friday morning.
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BadGimp
(4,015 posts)Since when do people have the right to attend a private religious event?
Seems to me the church is well within it's rights to ban the kids from any school event. Private religious school right?
What am I missing?
Prometheus Bound
(3,489 posts)It's their school banning them, not the Church.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Do you know how much leeway they have to define "immoral, indecent, obscene or lewd acts??" (hint: leeway as wide as the ocean)