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>>>You really should read the article more closely before responding, because it clearly states the school had a strict dress code.

Hence she asked for permission to go outside the dress code. Had permission been denied she could have dressed as a slut and fit in with the rest of her classmates, but I don’t really see that as an improvement. Ladies have been wearing trousers for almost a century now. Most people don’t get the vapors at the sight. Darn you Kate Hepburn.

The matter of the gender of her date apparently was not so particularly limited. This left the school unable to block the girls other then to cancel the entire dance.

Or put another way, if they DID have controlling rules in place, why not just enforce them instead of taking away the prom from all the “nice” people? How is that so complicated?

The right move would have been to change the rules for next years prom. As clueless as they come off in this story, they’d probably screw that up too though.

I read fine, thanks. Usually anyway.

The right move would have been to change the rules for next years prom.

Why? To what? Any fetish is acceptable? ANY fetish just to keep it "fair?" Why should they change their entire culture because two out of thousands couldn't get their heads on straight?
Maybe they like their rules, so why change them? Why don't the two girls just wear a dress and get over it for the sake of the entire school? Why do they think their fetish is more important than everyone elses prom night?

tlb: “The matter of the gender of her date apparently was not so particularly limited.”

From the article: “A February 5 memo from the school to students noted that each student may invite one guest to the prom and that the guest “must be of the opposite sex.””

The school only canceled the prom AFTER the ACLU threatened to sue if the school didn’t bend its rules to accommodate the lesbian, which gets back to my earlier point that the school has the right to set standards. You may think those standards are unreasonable. I might agree. Nevertheless, it isn’t OUR school.

If a lesbian can force the school to accommodate her wishes, what’s next? As I wrote earlier, homosexuals are not a protected class (and I hope they never are). If they were, she might have had a reasonable argument. Just because some liberals are trying to make an end run around the law by making sexual orientation equal to race, religion, national origin, etc., doesn’t make it so.

Homosexuality is a legal choice. So is abortion. If two girls wanted to have an abortion at the prom, with proper medical assistance, should everyone else be forced to witness it just because it's legal?
Both are individual choices, but neither choice should force other people to have to witness it. They're both below the level of the beasts.
If a student get's sent home from school for wearing a WWJD t-shirt because it's "controversial", then why aren't these two homosexuals being removed from the school as well? Obviously, they're deliberately creating controversy in order to rub their fetish in other peoples faces.
These two girls should be banned from the prom if the school changes it's mind. They're behavior is too controversial. That's the rules. The WWJD t-shirts have set the president on contraversy.