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Students protest Bleckley prom decision (to admit homosexual couple)
The Macon Telegraph ^ | March 26, 2010 | Julie Hubbard

Posted on 03/26/2010 2:34:11 PM PDT by DesertRenegade

A small group of Bleckley County High School students staged a rally at the courthouse Thursday evening to protest their high school allowing a gay student to take his boyfriend to the prom.

Bleckley school system officials last week granted senior Derrick Martin permission to take another boy to prom. The decision marked the first decision in the county’s history about a same-sex couple attending the prom there.

“We knew Derrick was gay,” said Keith Bowman Jr., a high school senior who showed up at the rally. “They don’t want (Cochran) to be known as a pro gay town.”

Most of the dozen attending the rally said they weren’t bothered by Martin being gay or being allowed to attend prom with his partner. But they said the school system’s decision has brought too much attention to their small town.

“People who don’t know the area will think it reflects on everybody,” said John Smith, a grandfather who owns an air-conditioning business in Cochran.

Before he stopped by the rally, he asked county officials Thursday if a separate prom could be held at the city’s recreation center, he said.

The rally’s organizer, Amber Duskin, sent text messages to high school students Wednesday asking them to show up.

The senior said she asked her high school to return her prom ticket money and does not plan to attend because of Martin.

“I don’t believe in going up there and dancing with gay guys like that,” she said. “It’s also not just him bringing a boy. It was bringing all this attention to it.”

A group of college students also stopped by the rally but not to protest.

“We’re for it,” said Carly Nobles, a Middle Georgia College student. “It takes a lot for someone to come out (as gay).

“This is a small town. Some of these students are sheltered, and I don’t think they can think for themselves.”

Martin said talk at school Thursday was that the prom committee may do away with the traditional “walk through” when students and their dates are announced as they enter the prom.

He’s also heard some students are trying to have a separate prom.

As a result of the media attention, Martin’s parents have kicked him out of their home, and he’s staying with a friend in Cochran.

Martin’s father is a math teacher at Bleckley County High and is the school’s Teacher of the Year.

“I think his dad is embarrassed,” said sophomore Brittany Bohannon. As school faculty were introduced at an unrelated motivational speaking event Thursday, Martin’s father attended but stood in the background, she said. “People thought it was OK I was going to prom but not OK with me telling anybody,” Derrick Martin said Thursday. “All this media attention has gotten people scared Cochran is an openly gay community.”

Martin said the rally has not changed his plans to attend the prom with his boyfriend, Richard Goodman, of Tifton.

But Martin said he might not talk to media until after the prom to help minimize the attention that so many feel is unwelcome.


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These kids are doing exactly the right thing by supporting traditional values. The vast majority of the country is sick and tired of homosexual militants trying to attack the sanctity of our cultural institutions. If some queer wants to force his lifestyle on the community, then he needs to suffer the consequences. This young fruit is learning that free speech runs both ways and the AIDS deathstyle is unwelcome at a formally sponsored school event (that the taxpayers fund).
1 posted on 03/26/2010 2:34:12 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
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To: DesertRenegade
I should have went to Prom when I was in high school.

Nowadays, going to prom is like going to a social experiment.

2 posted on 03/26/2010 2:35:57 PM PDT by lormand
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To: DesertRenegade

It would be hilarious if these to “gay” pixies were the only two people who showed up.


3 posted on 03/26/2010 2:38:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We've got an expanding, fat porker government demanding that WE get skinny! I don't get it!)
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To: DesertRenegade
The kids should just boycott the “official” one and set one up themselves.Let the pervs have the whole joint to themselves.
4 posted on 03/26/2010 2:40:32 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: DesertRenegade

I think asking for their money back is a positive step.

they SHOULD hold a seperate prom away from the sexual fetish.

Remember this homosexual is asking to be made special because of a sexual fetish.

this is not like no-date boys or girls going as a group.


5 posted on 03/26/2010 2:42:45 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: DesertRenegade

Why the adults of Bleckley county aren’t raising a stink about this is puzzling,unless they are and the media just isn’t reporting it. Or unless,they are just too apathetic(that wouldn’t surprise me).


6 posted on 03/26/2010 2:45:34 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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“This is a small town. Some of these students are sheltered, and I don’t think they can think for themselves.”

On the contrary, elitist snob, these students are thinking for themselves, hence why they don't support regressive sexuality.

7 posted on 03/26/2010 2:45:39 PM PDT by Sister_T (Socialism is covetousness, wearing a mask of "caring for the poor" ... Ephesians 5:5)
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“People thought it was OK I was going to prom but not OK with me telling anybody,” Derrick Martin said

There it is again. It's always about them and they have a need to shout it from the rooftops.

8 posted on 03/26/2010 2:50:24 PM PDT by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: DesertRenegade

They should dress up as goats and satyrs and whatnot and make a mockery of an event which is already a mockery.


9 posted on 03/26/2010 2:55:05 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: DesertRenegade

“It takes a lot for someone to come out (as gay).”

Today? No, not really.

What would “take a lot” would be for him to come out and said he had those desires, but recognized they were perverted, and had fled to Christ to be forgiven, redeemed, and made new; and that he was resisting him.

What would “take a lot” would be for him to say that our desires are not the center of the universe.


10 posted on 03/26/2010 2:57:39 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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My extended family comes from Cochran. It’s a way little southern town with very traditional values. They don’t like all this attention. Gays do, but normal people don’t.
I’ve read in the paper here that gay organizations are offering him goodies, limo, etc. He’s so speshul dontcha know


11 posted on 03/26/2010 3:02:09 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Navy blue)
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“We’re for it,” said Carly Nobles, a Middle Georgia College student. “It takes a lot for someone to come out (as gay).

“This is a small town. Some of these students are sheltered, and I don’t think they can think for themselves.”

So you’re prepared to think for them Carly?
Typical liberal behavour.


12 posted on 03/26/2010 3:04:09 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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I should have went to Prom when I was in high school.

Nowadays, going to prom is like going to a social experiment.

Chuckle, it might not have hurt to attend an English class or two either.

13 posted on 03/26/2010 3:08:20 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: DesertRenegade

He’s just trying to get Ellen Degenerate to give him $30,000 for his college like she did the other lesbian wanting to go her prom in a tux to play Bull Dyke...


14 posted on 03/26/2010 3:08:56 PM PDT by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: tet68

Good catch.


15 posted on 03/26/2010 3:11:00 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: lormand
I should have went to Prom when I was in high school.

I think you should have spent more time in English class.

16 posted on 03/26/2010 3:11:40 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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The decision marked the first decision in the county’s history about a same-sex couple attending the prom there. <> OH MY GOD.
17 posted on 03/26/2010 3:11:52 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: Balding_Eagle; lormand

You beat me to it. LOL!


18 posted on 03/26/2010 3:12:44 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe; Balding_Eagle; lormand

You know, even though I quit high school to join the navy, I consider myself quite proficient at grammer. Would the grammar police please explain what error Lormand committed to bring out your wrath?


19 posted on 03/26/2010 3:23:11 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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Would the grammar police please explain what error Lormand committed to bring out your wrath?

No wrath on my part, just a chuckle. As you can see my reply to him was tongue in cheek.

I was commenting on his use of 'went' instead of 'gone'.

As soon as I seen that I new I had to respond.

20 posted on 03/26/2010 3:29:09 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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