Posted on 03/11/2010 11:46:20 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
JACKSON, Miss. – An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student whose school district canceled her senior prom rather than allow her to escort her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo said she got some unfriendly looks from classmates when she reluctantly returned to campus Thursday.
Constance McMillen said she didn't want to go back the day after the Itawamba County school board's decision, but her father told her she needed to face her classmates, teachers and school officials.
"My daddy told me that I needed to show them that I'm still proud of who I am," McMillen told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "The fact that this will help people later on, that's what's helping me to go on."
The district announced Wednesday it wouldn't host the April 2 prom. The decision came after the American Civil Liberties Union told officials a policy banning same-sex prom dates violated students' rights. The ACLU said the district not letting McMillen wear a tuxedo violated her free expression rights.
McMillen said she felt some hostility toward her on the Itawamba County Agricultural High School campus.
"Somebody said, 'Thanks for ruining my senior year.'" McMillen said.
The school board issued a statement announcing it wouldn't host the event in Fulton, "due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events."
The statement didn't mention McMillen or the ACLU. When asked by the AP if McMillen's demand led to the cancellation, school board attorney Michele Floyd said she could only reference the statement.
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Didn’t want to go back to school?
For the first time in her life she is realizing that actions have consequences.
From what i get from my nieces it is more girls than boys and that the guys encourage it, at parties they have spin the bottle with only girls playing and dare with only girls..
I asked do guys play them games and they went “thats icky”..
Reminds me of those guys promoting free love in the 60’s so they could get laid more and not have to give a sh*t about the girl..
If that were my daughter I would hang my head in shame.
looks like snookie.
Enterprising students should seize the opportunity to organize a private party for profit.
I was not aware that high school proms were sexualized events where school officials condone sexual relations between students of the opposite sex.
Your daddy missed the mark on this advice. I would never tell my child that they need to show they are proud of being a perverse individual. That’s just wrong.
This part of the "self-esteem" training many schools push on kids where they should be proud of themselves regardless of their achievements or lack thereof. This girl is being raised to be a narcissist who cares only for herself!
Public schools shouldn’t be holding dances and crap anyway, how about we start educating the kids again??
Oops. who am I kidding?
Of course its the “cool thing”. TV and Hollywood and government all make it the big thing.
This daddy doesn't have the moral compass or courage to tell his little girl that she is doing something worthy of great shame, not pride.
I am sure that having a child who is participating in a homosexual lifestyle is a painful thing, but it he wants to save his child from a lifetime of shame and pain, he needs to grow a spine.
lolol
And were you not aware of Obama appointing a pedophile as his “Safe-sex schools” czar?
It all fits.
What a selfish little b****.
In probably less than a year, she’ll grow out of this gay fad and all she’ll have done is ruin the memory of a lifetime for most of her classmates.
Without even looking at the picture,
I’d hit it.
In fact, my new tagline:
You mean indoctrinating kids????
Guys encourage the girls to be bi; that way the guy has a chance of achieving a threesome - one guy, two girls.
Great cartoon and pics.
Thanx!
Doees it work?
Apparently, yes.
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