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Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap

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Mississippi School Cancels Prom

JACKSON, Miss. – A northern Mississippi school district will not be hosting a high school prom this spring after a lesbian student sought to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.

The Itawamba County school district's board decided Wednesday to drop the prom because of what it called recent distractions but without specifically mentioning the girl's request, which was backed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Miss. school prom off after lesbian's date request - Yahoo! News

Ridiculous.
 
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Yeah, I just read about that. I found it rather funny.

Only in Mississippi. Ah well, you know what they say - when in Rome...

I don't see what the problem is. They didn't show her girlfriend, but they showed her and she's pretty good-looking. I'll lay even money that most of the boys there wouldn't have been offended. The girls there may get pissed when they notice their boyfriends and prom dates staring at two hot chicks making out. Happened to me.
 
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I don't agree with punishing a whole class for the actions of a few.
 
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Hmm? Let's think about this. So which one did they really think would be worse for the students, having a couple there that both were female or not having a prom at all? Some people are so ridiculously stupid.
 
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Hmm? Let's think about this. So which one did they really think would be worse for the students, having a couple there that both were female or not having a prom at all? Some people are so ridiculously stupid.

"We'll show you! We'll just CANCEL THE PROM!"

I think it's time for some Footloose. Does anyone in town have a conveniently empty feed warehouse?
 
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i was going to wear a dress to my valedictorian dinner, until they said i wouldn't be allowed in if i did
 
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The school has a duty to not promote deviant behavior..............;)
 
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I agree, it's ridiculous.

A few years ago, in my school district, two gay guys went to the high school prom and with nary a peep from anyone. I only learned about it from some kids who went and it was just an incidental mention, not a big deal. "__________ was at the prom with his boy friend. They looked nice."
 
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The school has a duty to not promote deviant behavior..............;)

The definition of "deviant behavior" changes with time and place. Many people went to my prom stag or with groups of friends. It would have been no big deal if two girls danced together. However, no one was allowed to kiss, not even heterosexual couples. So what if one of the girls wanted to wear a tux? At least she wanted to still go in formal attire. It's better than those guys that want to wear those really cheesy tux t-shirts.
 
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Rightly so......;)

so i showed up in a lime green suit with an aqua shirt and purple tie, i think when they saw me, they wish they had let me wear a dress, but the problem with that was finding size 15 heels
 
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The definition of "deviant behavior" changes with time and place. Many people went to my prom stag or with groups of friends. It would have been no big deal if two girls danced together. However, no one was allowed to kiss, not even heterosexual couples. So what if one of the girls wanted to wear a tux? At least she wanted to still go in formal attire. It's better than those guys that want to wear those really cheesy tux t-shirts.

This is the core belief of the Liberal/Neo Progressive agenda & I disagree with that philosophy....;)
 
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This is the core belief of the Liberal/Neo Progressive agenda & I disagree with that philosophy....;)

Thank heavens our children are more tolerant and less ridiculous than our generation.
 
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so i showed up in a lime green suit with an aqua shirt and purple tie, i think when they saw me, they wish they had let me wear a dress, but the problem with that was finding size 15 heels

Stupid is as stupid does......:2razz:
 
Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap - Yahoo! News

A northern Mississippi school district will not be hosting a high school prom this spring after a lesbian student sought to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.

The Itawamba County school district's board decided Wednesday to drop the prom because of what it called recent distractions but without specifically mentioning the girl's request, which was backed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The student, 18-year-old high school senior Constance McMillen, said the cancellation was retaliation for her efforts to bring her girlfriend, also a student, to the April 2 dance.

"A bunch of kids at school are really going to hate me for this, so in a way it's really retaliation," McMillen told The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson. Calls to McMillen by The Associated Press late Wednesday went unanswered.

School policy requires that senior prom dates be of the opposite sex. The ACLU of Mississippi had given the district until Wednesday to change that policy, arguing that banning same-sex prom dates violated McMillen's constitutional rights.

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Itawamba County is a rural area of about 23,000 people in north Mississippi near the Alabama state line. It's near Pontotoc County, Miss., where more than a decade ago school officials were sued in federal court over their practice of student-led intercom prayer and Bible classes.
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On one hand the school district is allowed to cancel such events. On the other hand, they are complete bigots for canceling a prom just so ONE student won't bring a same sex date. Seriously, anybody who thinks education should be left up to the states doesn't have a clue what 'states' do when they control education. The story is in the history books.
 
Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap - Yahoo! News



On one hand the school district is allowed to cancel such events. On the other hand, they are complete bigots for canceling a prom just so ONE student won't bring a same sex date. Seriously, anybody who thinks education should be left up to the states doesn't have a clue what 'states' do when they control education. The story is in the history books.

So we can't trust the states to protect individual rights, but we can trust the federal government? Would you have said the same thing two years ago?
 
On one hand the school district is allowed to cancel such events. On the other hand, they are complete bigots for canceling a prom just so ONE student won't bring a same sex date. Seriously, anybody who thinks education should be left up to the states doesn't have a clue what 'states' do when they control education. The story is in the history books.

This wasn't a state decision, it was a local decision, and it will create its own fallout amongst the locals. After all, the local school board made this decision, and they are elected by locals. I have a feeling that you're going to have a few hundredpissed off teenagers, as a result, and that's going to equate to some pissed off parents. You don't mess with a teenager's prom.
 
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The school has a duty to not promote deviant behavior..............;)

WRONG.

The school has a duty to teach academics, hold its extracurriculars, and administrate education while remaining morally neutral on matters of personal choice, parental rights to raise the children in a way ethically and morally congruent with the parents' wishes, and to not make end runs around discrimination policies.
 
So we can't trust the states to protect individual rights, but we can trust the federal government? Would you have said the same thing two years ago?

I do not trust individual states when it comes to support for civil rights(given their track record, specifically Southern states like Mississippi). I do not trust the government when it says it wants to have a Patriot Act that allows it to wiretap phones without warrants. I do trust it to create policy on education. What are we discussing?

On a related note, I also believe that the U.S. should have a single curriculum taught across every state. We're one of the few industrialized nations that doesn't have the same curriculum nation wide. It is embarrassing that in the year 2010 we still have schools trying to sneak in non-scientific bull**** into our schools.
 
This wasn't a state decision, it was a local decision, and it will create its own fallout amongst the locals. After all, the local school board made this decision, and they are elected by locals. I have a feeling that you're going to have a couple of thousand pissed off teenagers, as a result, and that's going to equate to around 3,000 pissed off parents. You don't mess with a teenager's prom.

Thank you. When I said states I guess I should have been clear. I'm strongly opposed to localized policy making when it comes to school. I mean I guess the school should have control over how things are carried out but ultimately it is a very bad idea to give them control over the way students should behave. I'd understand if this kid was walking into a prom wearing leather chaps and singing ABBA. But they canceled a prom because she wanted to go to prom wearing a tux? Oh FFS.
 
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