Constance McMillen Photo: AP
Posted on 04/07/2010 7:56:09 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Disappointment as US high school students snub 'lesbian-friendly prom'
Senior prom fell far short of the rite of passage Constance McMillen was hoping for when she began a legal battle to challenge a ban on same-sex dates.
Published: 7:00AM BST 07 Apr 2010
Constance McMillen Photo: AP
The 18-year-old lesbian student said that she was one of only seven students to show up at a private party chaperoned by school officials. She said the rest of her peers went to another private event where she wasn't invited.
"It was not the prom I imagined," she said. "It really hurts my feelings. These are still people who I've gone through school with, even teachers who loved me before this all started. I've never been a bad student and I don't feel like I deserve to be put through this."
Her case drew a national spotlight after she and the American Civil Liberties Union challenged an Itawamba County School District rule that banned same-sex prom dates and a requirement that only male students wear tuxedos. Proms are parties held for students, generally in their senior year in high school.
The ACLU sent a demand letter to Superintendent Teresa McNeece in February, saying the rules against same-sex prom dates and girls wearing tuxedos violated Miss McMillen's constitutional rights. The district responded by withdrawing its sponsorship and cancelling the April 2 event.
In an apparent compromise, school district officials said parents would organise a private event with school chaperones that Miss McMillen could attend.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What about the feelings of others? Liberals never consider that when they start to initiate force to violate others' rights.
As for my family, we opted out of public school years ago. They have yet to be approached by a “counselor” concerning their “orientation”. It is amazing how my 16 year old can still play dolls with her younger siblings and not feel “self-concious” about it. “
Public school is the beginning of sorrows for the parents who have children in them.” My opinion!
She has 30000 big ones in the bank to comfort her hurt feelings.
So, when I was at High School, I wasn’t invited to all the parties of my fellow classmates, and I didn’t whine about it.
I agree. According to Constance, she was a lesbian since 8th grade. How did she “learn” that about herself and who did she “learn” it with?
If you’re going to fight the good fight, regardless of cause, one might deduce that one should fight the good fight when the battle lines are drawn down the middle of your house. Adults, are generally immune to the effects of homosexual influence, however, there is a good deal of data that suggests that children, and particularly adolescent kids, that are most susceptible. Why, you might ask? Well, it is incontrovertibly established that our pre frontal cortex isn’t fully mature until roughly age 18 - 21 in most kids. That means that our ability to properly reason, and rationalize based on fully understanding external forces isn’t well honed until after that age.
How many times have you heard of a perfectly functioning adult heterosexual turning gay? It doesn’t happen, it does however, happen sometime in a child’s maturation. We don’t know exactly how, but, despite the homosexual agenda’s claims that people are born gay, there is absolutely zero, zip, zilch evidence that supports this theory. Armed with this intimate knowledge of how the brain works, and how we reason, and throw in some anecdotal support, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put two-and-two together.
Kids need to defend themselves from danger. They’re not equipped to do it biologically, and or psychologically until they reach adulthood. It is our responsibility as parents (I have 4 children) to show them how to spot the danger, and how best to deal with it. I’ve done the research, spent hours and hours on the topic, read all there is to read on the subject, and I’m quite certain that my pre frontal cortex is in good working order.
Even with the defenseless, immature child, nature thought it through. Not all kids are susceptible, but some are, and adding other external prerequisites, we have a situation whereby some kids, unbeknownst to the bewildered parent, may fall into the trap that is homosexuality, and its influence.
Tim-
SnakeDoc, this is where we part ways. Her peers didn't set out to ostracize her. She attacked them with the bullying power of the ACLU. This, in turn, canceled her classmates' prom and (according the student from post #21) ruined their senior year of high school. People seem more upset that one whiney little brat didn't get her way rather than the hundreds of classmates who came together to salvage what the whiney brat ruined.
I agree with the student in post #21... prom is about celebrating your high school years. Why in the world would anyone expect them to celebrate with the one who savaged their senior year?
>> When people go to court—they really cannot whine if they get treated as a social outcast by those they chose to sue.
I didn’t say she had the right to whine ... I’ve said nothing whatsoever about her having any right to anything. In fact, I said she probaby got what’s coming to her. She doens’t have the right to a prom. She doesn’t have the right to ignore rules, dress codes, or date restrictions. She doesn’t have the right to acceptance. She doesn’t have the right to engage in her sin-of-choice whenever and wherever she wants. She suffered no violation of rights.
My objection was not based on her rights, it was based on the behavior of the other kids. Christians are often called to treat people better than they deserve to be treated.
SnakeDoc
Her parents wouldn't let her go.
I will gladly be tiresome to you and remind you that this does not apply to normalizing a sin.
“It was not the prom I imagined,” she said. “It really hurts my feelings. These are still people who I’ve gone through school with, even teachers who loved me before this all started. I’ve never been a bad student and I don’t feel like I deserve to be put through this.”
Maybe you should think about someone other than yourself for a change. You raised a stink with your selfish demands, then didn’t like the smell. Surprise! Actions have consequences.
Always said...”Homos solicit”. It’s the only way to propogate...
your objection is based on your HYPOTHESIS about the alternate party having intentionally excluded the others, with no factual basis to establish that as fact, as has been pointed out here.
I actually agree with you on that point. Heck, I didn’t attend my own senior prom, I went to see Rocky at the movie theatre.
But for some of these kids, still in high school, the perception is their reality — and I was just trying to explain how they were acting.
If we were talking about 30-year-olds still attacking the girl for what she did to their senior prom, I’d be rather critical of them. Although some people do always look back fondly at their senior prom memories.
Yeah. So? Again ... I’m not defending her “right to whine”. She’s a royal pain-in-the-ass, her rights have not been violated, and she has no cause to demand anything.
Whether it was appropriate, in a Christian context, for other kids to ostracize her (and six others) — even if she brought it on herself — is another question entirely.
SnakeDoc
And, since her “significant other” is a younger person, what is Constance guilty of? And do the parents know that an older kid is messing with their daughter? Would it make a difference if it was senior boy messing with an junior female?
Completely appalling.
Oh, B.S. We are all free to associate with who we wish. The lesbo went to court for an audience, strictly for attention, then she didn't get it, and she's crying foul, and it's the fault of the other students? She could've brought her date to the regular prom, dressed in a dress of some sort and still been able to get her freak on afterwards, and that would've been that.
This is completely, 100% her fault, and I laugh at her shame, if she were capable of feeling any.
My objection was to her treatment, as well as the six others. I have acknowledged that there remain questions to be answered about the six non-Constance outcasts.
SnakeDoc
bttt
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