The only significant predictors of the exclusion judgements of lesbians were four justifications. 
Those students who justified their decisions in terms of needing to belong, human equality, and fairness, judged excluding lesbians as wrong 


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Exclusion category explains that which factors predict students’ responses regarding the exclusion of gays and lesbians.
For both lesbians and gays, the strongest predictor of exclusion was the notion of personal choice. 


Exclusion

Horn, S. S., Szalacha, L. A., & Drill, K. (2008). Schooling, sexuality, and rights: An investigation of heterosexual students' social cognition regarding sexual orientation and the rights of gay and lesbian peers in school. Journal of Social Issues, 64(4), 791–813. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.00589.x

Schooling, Sexuality, and Rights: An Investigation of Heterosexual Students’ Social Cognition Regarding Sexual Orientation and the Rights of Gay and Lesbian Peers in School

Exclusion: lesbian version

School and gender were significant predictors, judging exclusion of gay males to be wrong
Grade in school indicated that higher grade was a significant predictor of judging exclusion as less wrong. 
Students’ evaluative judgment of homosexuality was not significant predictor of exclusion
Students judging exclusion as more acceptable justified their decisions on the basis of personal choice and that homosexuality was unnatural
The three predictors here, gender, grade, and school, were not predictors for lesbians, but was for gays men.


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