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Disappointment as US high school students snub 'lesbian-friendly prom'
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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 ...


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To: TigerLikesRooster
It really hurts my feelings.

What about the feelings of others? Liberals never consider that when they start to initiate force to violate others' rights.

121 posted on 04/07/2010 9:07:28 AM PDT by mjp (pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, independence, limited government, capitalism})
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To: SnakeDoctor
You don't know if they were invited or not. The other seven, as another poster said, could have been pushed by their parents to attend and show support for Constance. All we are hearing is her side of the story. Pay attention to what the other side is saying.

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!

122 posted on 04/07/2010 9:07:53 AM PDT by wbarmy (I decided to be a sheepdog when I saw what happens to sheep.)
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To: SnakeDoctor

She has 30000 big ones in the bank to comfort her hurt feelings.


123 posted on 04/07/2010 9:08:02 AM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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To: SnakeDoctor

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.


124 posted on 04/07/2010 9:08:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: an amused spectator

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?


125 posted on 04/07/2010 9:08:26 AM PDT by TXDuke
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To: SnakeDoctor

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-


126 posted on 04/07/2010 9:08:56 AM PDT by D521646
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To: SnakeDoctor
Whether it is a moral right (as opposed to wrong, not as in “Constitutional right”) to ostracize a select few people is another question entirely.

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?

127 posted on 04/07/2010 9:11:59 AM PDT by pgyanke (You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
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To: AnalogReigns

>> 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


128 posted on 04/07/2010 9:12:31 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant ... that even a god-king can bleed." - 300)
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To: Sacajaweau
We have yet tgo see a photo of her partner. Why??

Her parents wouldn't let her go.

129 posted on 04/07/2010 9:12:38 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: SnakeDoctor

I will gladly be tiresome to you and remind you that this does not apply to normalizing a sin.


130 posted on 04/07/2010 9:14:04 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“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.


131 posted on 04/07/2010 9:14:06 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: TXDuke

Always said...”Homos solicit”. It’s the only way to propogate...


132 posted on 04/07/2010 9:14:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: SnakeDoctor

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.


133 posted on 04/07/2010 9:16:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SnakeDoctor

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.


134 posted on 04/07/2010 9:16:48 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: dfwgator

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


135 posted on 04/07/2010 9:18:31 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant ... that even a god-king can bleed." - 300)
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To: TXDuke

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?


136 posted on 04/07/2010 9:19:11 AM PDT by wbarmy (I decided to be a sheepdog when I saw what happens to sheep.)
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To: SnakeDoctor
Actually, despite my belief that homosexuality is always a sin ... I think this is absolutely terrible. I would have my kids’ heads for treating ANYONE that way. Hate the sin, not the sinner; let he without sin cast the first stone — all of those often misused, universally misunderstood cliches actually apply here.

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.

137 posted on 04/07/2010 9:19:43 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: xsmommy

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


138 posted on 04/07/2010 9:20:31 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant ... that even a god-king can bleed." - 300)
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To: SnakeDoctor
It was, IM very un-HO after several readings of the bible and decades of hearing sound preaching, the Christian duty of the kids to not show up and party along with Constance at Constance's private in-drag prom.
139 posted on 04/07/2010 9:22:26 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: beaversmom

bttt


140 posted on 04/07/2010 9:22:33 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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