Because of all the different styles and colors?
Posted on 04/09/2010 2:31:36 AM PDT by jerry557
JACKSON (AP) — A teen who challenged a ban on same-sex prom dates will get a second chance to don a tuxedo and dance at an event in San Francisco often referred to as the ‘‘lesbian prom.’’
The National Center for Lesbian Rights has invited Constance McMillen and Ceara Sturgis, a Mississippi student who fought to wear a tuxedo in a yearbook photo, to its 33rd anniversary celebration on May 1.
The event is often referred to as the ‘‘lesbian prom,’’ said NCLR Executive Director Kate Kendell. Nearly 2,000 people are expected to attend the celebration in San Francisco, Kendell said.
‘‘With everything Constance has been through at her school over the past few weeks, we’re grateful for any chance to remind her that while her school violated her rights, she’s appreciated and respected all over the country for her fight to be treated equally,’’ Kendell wrote in a blog posted Thursday.
McMillen, 18, is a senior at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Miss.
She and the American Civil Liberties Union challenged her school district’s rule that banned same-sex prom dates and a stipulation that only male students be allowed to wear tuxedos to the event. In response, the school district canceled its April 2 prom and later announced parents would sponsor another dance in its place.
The ACLU believes the parent-sponsored dance that McMillen attended on Friday was a ruse because only seven students showed up. McMillen says the rest of her peers partied at another location.
Kendell said the NCLR plans to pay for McMillen’s travel and give her ‘‘a weekend she’ll never forget. It will make all these other proms and fake-proms fade into distant memory.’’ The organization is also paying for Sturgis.
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Well then,we all know what THEY need...
Well, there you have it. All’s well that ends well. The students didn’t have to put up with the lesbo’s B.S., and the attention whore gets her attention.
And they all lived happily ever after...
Snap-on tools???
Damn attention whore! Freedom of Association is terrible to this lesbo!
Lesbians like other women right? So why would one want to go out with one dressed up like a man? Unless her date looks at her as a man, but then that would defeat the entire purpose. Wouldn’t it?
So the ACLU and this person believe that the other students should be FORCED to attend a prom (that they do not wish to attend) with her?
I've always wondered... this kind of BS might be what helps to turns people against public schools in general. You notice that the private prom went off without a hitch. If we could get to the point where, because of endless lawsuits, private citizens were forced to organize proms, graduations, Christmas plays, extracurricular activities, then those can be more people who might just turn around and say F-This, why do we need public schools?
A gay young man from Khartoum,
Took a lesbian up to his room.
But they argued all night,
As to who had the right,
To do what, and with which and to whom!
She gets to go to a Freak show in San Francisco. Now isnt that “special”?
Just a observation about American history. I don’t think this prom business came around until the early part of the 1900’s. Typically, it was a social occasion in the local community to celebrate graduation.
The term "My rights were violated!" has replaced "Can do!" as America's rallying cry.
This is the one big thing about some homosexuals I will never understand. If you arnt attracted to the opposite gender, why are you attracted to someone who dresses/looks like the opposite gender?
“This is the one big thing about some homosexuals I will never understand. If you arnt attracted to the opposite gender, why are you attracted to someone who dresses/looks like the opposite gender?”
Why, if lesbians don’t like men, do they dress like a man?
LOL!
It’s a mystery.....like crop circles.
“Queen For a Day”
>”Snap-on tools???”
ME TOO! ME TOO!
Because of all the different styles and colors?
This girl almost got a life lesson. “If you try to push other people around they don’t like you much.” The corollary being that sometimes people are smart and determined enough that you don’t get your way even when you try and sue them into it.
She might have grown up a bit and put “her rights” into perspective and realized that her desire to flaunt her differences doesn’t trump the rights of a community to celebrate a life passage event by their own shared traditions. Instead the LGBT radicals are rewarding her for getting in everyone’s face and preventing her from learning the effects of her actions.
I don’t give a bleep what people do in private but there is no way I am going to support and normalize a gay or transgender path. If they want to be people then they have the same rights as everyone else and are entitled to the same respect and individual opportunity as everyone else. If they are the personification of an agenda then all bets are off.
The LGBT community needs to respect the rights of others and stop acting like show off kids screaming look at me, I can be gross and you have to watch and pay for it with your tax dollars or I’ll sue you.
Ceara Sturgis,
I thought the other girl’s parents did not want her name or picture published becasue she is a minor.
Note that Ceara Sturgis isn’t McMillan’s girlfriend, she’s another girl who wanted to wear a tuxedo for her yearbook picture.
Personally, If some lesbian organization wants to spend their money on flying to lesbians out to California, and the parents are dumb enough to allow it, I don’t care, so long as it isn’t MY tax dollars.
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