It's not discrimination if there's no right.
I call BS on this. Trying growing up gay and then come tell me that discrimination doesn't exist because there aren't 10,000 laws for all of the potential scenarios that gay people may find themselves in. Do you know what equal rights are? Stop feigning obtuseness. You KNOW this was discrimination.
Likewise, they can't keep her and her girlfriend out of a prom at a public school because no law exists saying that same-sex couples can't attend prom. That was a rule that this
public school invented according to the moral values of one administrator. She doesn't have the right to decide that homosexuals are excluded from an event inclusive of the student body, and neither do you. The courts will be ruling in her favor shortly.
If it was a private school they could determine whatever they want.
The ridicule from her peers is the fault of her peers, not the administrator, and they're just pissed about the prom, not really about her being a lesbian.
Really? You've personally interviewed them all?
If these are the actions of her school admin, I can only imagine what the student body is like. This girl is brave for standing up in such a bigoted environment, and you do her a great disservice by refusing to acknowledge that.
What I don't understand is why she went to the ACLU. I mean yeah I get the argument, but why didn't she just let things be and show up on prom night, Let the school try to stop her from entering and then call the cops?
You can't understand why a
17 year old wouldn't want to just show up at a prom in a school where the admins don't like her for who she is, are actively trying to oppress her individuality, and where the student body is likely equally as harsh? Please, don't tell me you can't connect the dots here.
See that's what blacks did. They didn't just file complaints, they actually went to these things and let school officials stand in their way. That's how they got **** don.
That's nice.
[*]The 'rights' argument fails every time it's tried, and here it doesn't even apply so that's a double fail.
The only place where a debate about the "right" to go to prom took place was in your mind.
[*]Even if it did apply, prom is such a petty thing to cat fight over that it only makes this girl look like an attention whore. This is the wrong battle.
I think it's the perfect battle and she's brave for taking it on, instead of taking it sitting down. You're just annoyed by the progression and enforcement of gay rights, it's plain as day. But by all means, keep giving yourself a hernia every time something like this happens and the system doesn't take your side. It's your health, bucko.
[*]She shot her cause in the foot with mismanagement by not letting the school actually physically stop her from entering the dance, so even if school dances were a right and this was a good battle to pick, she blew it.
How did she blow it? She's going to win her court case, and then the school will be forced to comply. It will set a precedent for all future generations of same-sex prom goers in the State of MI. Sounds like a victory to me.
Only in your own head did she fail. And you're clinging to the weak argument that the way she went about it made her a failure.
Your reasoning is quite pathetic Jerry. You can't acknowledge the fact that she was discriminated against, nor that the administration over reacted and behaved inappropriately in the public system. On top of that, you have moderate, left and right wing posters at DP all attacking you. At this point you are just embarrassing yourself.
It's you who has picked the wrong battle today. This was a poor choice for trying to run your workarounds on gay rights issues.
But by all means, just keep doing the broken record routine. Maybe if we keep reading the same thing over and over again, we'll be bored to the point of retardation and might fall for it.