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 ...
So, in any context whatsoever, if someone fails to invite everyone in a given group to a gathering, it’s inherently an unchristian act?
So says the walking contradiction who chose this for his signature line:
"The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant ...
There is excellent reason to believe the few others were IN-casts for whatever reason fair or foul. Where’s their kvetching in Constance’s sob story news article?
>> Oh, B.S. We are all free to associate with who we wish.
Granted — we have the right to associate with whomever we wish. Whether those choices are morally right is a different question than whether they are within our legal right.
>> 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.
Also granted. She’s obnoxious, self-centered, and generally a pain. My objection was not based on her rights or her complaints. Christians are often called to treat people better than they deserve to be treated.
SnakeDoc
>> So says the walking contradiction who chose this for his signature line: “The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant ...
I see no contradiction.
SnakeDoc
No. The problem arises when it is the ostracization of a select few.
SnakeDoc
i really would like to know the answer to my question? is it our christian duty to invite every single person in a group, in every instance?
That’s why I pointed it out.
I sense Snakey is reacting off feelings, not a sound mind in Christ — like I would have, before I became a believer, and sometimes still did until I knew the wisdom of the scriptures at a heart level.
If Snakey is so worried about ministering to Constance, note that the news coverage is conspicuously silent about anything else that came before and after. For all we know, some parents asked Constance over for dinner for the next 7 nights.
I have no objection to that treatment at all. None. Zero.
This attention-seeking idiot had the gall to ruin everyone else's celebration for her own personal and selfish desires. She wanted them to gawk and to whisper about her, maybe even provoke an actual confrontation.
She got exactly what she asked for -- the "official" prom was canceled, but a quasi-prom was put together just for her benefit. When everyone else (except a handful) failed to show up for her to preen in front of, she immediately starts whining like a victim. The same as she would have if they had been there and snubbed her.
It is not the duty of the others to play her game or allow themselves to be used as pawns in whatever game she's playing. She ostracized herself by making this an issue; she should be prepared to deal with any consequences.
I don’t know. I do know is many states (TX used to be one of them), it would be considered statutory rape if an 18-year old male was having sex with anyone under the age of 18. TX has changed the law a little to allow for high school romances so now an 18-year old can have sex with a minor ONLY IF the minor is younger by two years or less. If the minor is 2 years and 1 day younger than the 18-year old, the 18-year old is guilty of statutory rape again.
you use a value-laden term. any non-invitation constitutes OSTRACIZATION?
It's certainly not for me to say, but if there was such a notion as a 'good' Samaritan who was the exception to the norm then I would imagine that the 'bad' Samaritans probably didn't get invited to the private prom.
Who is calling for the normalization of sin? It is a private party ... they should’ve given her the (non-cross) dress code and different-gendered date policy for the private party, and invited her along with everyone else.
If she chooses not to attend due to the policy, all is well ... you did your part, she made her choice.
SnakeDoc
Also, the TX law doesn’t not specify gender so it doesn’t matter if it is a gay relationship, whether the adult is a male or female, or whether the minor is a male or female. I can’t speak for other states’ laws though.
Freedom of Association.
Better go with vouchers. Then this young lady could attend a school where her choices are accepted and the other children can go where their parents decide. Simple.
One persons liberty shouldn’t trump another’s.
There is no evidence that anything but Constance’s prom was targeted, or that the few who went to Constance’s prom were targeted for shunning (if they were, we would hear them complaining in the news as it would make Constance look even more sympathetic).
Where I come from, after what this young lady did to her school, classmates and community, shunning would have been an extremely charitable response.
You seem to be, in the calling for the other students to go to HER prom.
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