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Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap

This was ruled based on "the public's best interest" even though the school was found in violation of the girl's 1st Amendment rights. It is good to know that you support legal findings based on evidence supporting "the public's best interest". I will keep that in mind. ;)

I think it was a stupid court decision, and they were just as stupid to sue as the school was stupid to cancel the prom. Violating the dress code is not a 1st Amendment right. It's actually a bit scary that a court would rule that it is.

Maybe I should go to prom naked, and if they kick me out I'll just claim they're persecuting me for my pro-nudity views and sue them. See how that works out.
 
Well it is kind of what the school administration was going for; Shaming her into giving up her dignity as a human being by making her the object of her peers' resentments. That's why they just cancelled the prom altogether. It wasn't about distractions, etc...it was about adults letting their need to win a pissing contest eclipse their good sense.

The pissing contest was two-way. She was told that she had to adhere to the dress code like everyone else, and she refused to do so because she wanted to use prom to make a statement. Her parents, adults themselves, were apparently okay with this. The school was dumb to cancel the prom, though. They should have just not let her in.
 
Also: Would the reaction be the same if it was a guy, and he was trying to wear a dress to prom?
 
The pissing contest was two-way. She was told that she had to adhere to the dress code like everyone else, and she refused to do so because she wanted to use prom to make a statement. Her parents, adults themselves, were apparently okay with this. The school was dumb to cancel the prom, though. They should have just not let her in.

Adults getting into a pissing contest with a child is not a two way street.
 
Injuction denied:

The Associated Press: Judge rules against lesbian teen in prom flap

Judge denies IAHS prom injunction request - WTVA.com

I must say I'm glad we're not having a federal court force a school to hold a prom simply to provide Constance with a stage from which to express her first amendment rights. I thought it would be ludicrous for the injuction to be granted.

Now having lost the injunction, it is expected that Constance will take the case to court with a "substantial liklihood" to win on the first amendment claim, where she will try to recover $1 in damages plus attorney's fees. Good thing for her she got the $30,000 on Ellen because it doesn't appear that the case itself is doing much for her.

Actually, since the case will be heard by a jury, I think the girl is going to get far more than $1.

Also ... the federal judge who denied the injunction is a spineless coward who lacked the ball-balls to do the right thing. It's just more political BS being masked under the cover of public interest.

I think that judge needs to be removed from the bench for utter spinelessness.
 
Actually, since the case will be heard by a jury, I think the girl is going to get far more than $1.

Also ... the federal judge who denied the injunction is a spineless coward who lacked the ball-balls to do the right thing. It's just more political BS being masked under the cover of public interest.

I think that judge needs to be removed from the bench for utter spinelessness.

She should get nothing, & be expelled from this school......;)
 
She was just trying to stir up trouble.....
Now, she's 'traumatized'?....Please.....:roll:

She was fighting against anti-homosexual bigots and has won a great battle. The school will never be able to have a prom again unless it allows homosexuals.

She won and homophobes that you support lost. :2wave:
 
She's a child.

She's old enough to die for her country on a dirt road in the Helmand province... most likely at the hands of a soldier even younger than herself.

At some point, the term "child" simply ceases to have meaning.
 
She was fighting against anti-homosexual bigots and has won a great battle. The school will never be able to have a prom again unless it allows homosexuals.

She won and homophobes that you support lost. :2wave:

Hopefully, she will be remembered as the selfish girl who killed the prom at that school.....
Or the school willaccept the 'agenda' that has been shoved upon them....
Either way, it will be her peers who judge her....;)
 
Hopefully, she will be remembered as the selfish girl who killed the prom at that school.....
Or the school willaccept the 'agenda' that has been shoved upon them....
Either way, it will be her peers who judge her....;)


Yeah, just like those selfish bitches who demanded that schools be integrated back in the 60s, or that insisted that they shouldn't sit in the back of the bus, thus ruining the experience for the rest of us.

We all know how history has viewed them.
 
Yeah, just like those selfish bitches who demanded that schools be integrated back in the 60s, or that insisted that they shouldn't sit in the back of the bus, thus ruining the experience for the rest of us.

We all know how history has viewed them.

And it's always the young that lead these sorts of revolutionary actions.
It's always youth on the front lines.
They have the energy and the idealism. And they have- terrible as it sounds- less to lose.
 
Hopefully, she will be remembered as the selfish girl who killed the prom at that school.....
Or the school willaccept the 'agenda' that has been shoved upon them....
Either way, it will be her peers who judge her....;)

Her peers are gay.:mrgreen:
 
Hopefully, she will be remembered as the selfish girl who killed the prom at that school.....
Or the school willaccept the 'agenda' that has been shoved upon them....
Either way, it will be her peers who judge her....;)

Maybe they should go beyond closing the prom and start a massive resistance to this sort of thing.

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_resistance]Massive resistance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

They even closed the schools rather than let blacks in. Kind of like the prom.
 
She's old enough to die for her country on a dirt road in the Helmand province... most likely at the hands of a soldier even younger than herself.

At some point, the term "child" simply ceases to have meaning.

It's a relative thing here. She's certainly not in the position that we would expect anything more than adolescent idealism. It's the administrators here who were being totally childish, though.
 
Yeah, just like those selfish bitches who demanded that schools be integrated back in the 60s, or that insisted that they shouldn't sit in the back of the bus, thus ruining the experience for the rest of us.

We all know how history has viewed them.

Terrible example same old tired stale left wing talking points....A race of people and a class of people are two totally diferent things......
 
Actually, since the case will be heard by a jury, I think the girl is going to get far more than $1.
Why would this trial be heard by a jury??
 
Yeah, just like those selfish bitches who demanded that schools be integrated back in the 60s, or that insisted that they shouldn't sit in the back of the bus, thus ruining the experience for the rest of us.

We all know how history has viewed them.
Yeah, just like that :roll:
 
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