>>>Homosexuals can take their agenda and shove it.
It’s not an issue of homosexuality. It’s an issue of a local schoolboard composed of apparently not very bright people who are panicking and shooting themselves in the foot. And in the process punishing the entire portion of the student body who wanted a prom.
“A school has the right to set a dress code for its students. It also has the right to set standards of conduct for students, to include not dancing with members of the same sex if it so chooses.”
Which it obviously had not done. Otherwise they wouldn’t have had to resort to canceling the entire prom. Punishing EVERYBODY just to keep two girls from dancing is absurd overkill.
As I said, handled as poorly as it possibly could have, short of deploying teargas and tasers anyway.
You nailed it. Schools can set reasonable dress codes inside the classroom and in school sponsored activities.
The prom should have been allowed as scheduled.
It was the right thing to do. Should all the students be forced to witness this abomination simply because two demand it? Should a small handfull of sexually dysfunctional people be allowed to change an entire culture in order to serve their own demented fetish?
tlb: “Which it obviously had not done.”
You really should read the article more closely before responding, because it clearly states the school had a strict dress code.
They had to cancel the prom because one person was pushing her agenda on all the other students. Perhaps you should blame the person who actually caused the disruption rather than the school board?
Again, schools have the right to set standards. Students must comply. No one’s constitutional rights were violated here.
BTW, tlb, I might have handled it differently had I been in charge. Even if I agree with you that the board made a bigger deal out of it than necessary, it’s still for them to decide, not you or I. In other words, they have the right to run their school as they see fit, and if that includes not catering to lesbians, so be it.
They aren't punishing everyone. They are simply suggesting the prom be a private affair and not controlled by homosexual activists and the ACLU.