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.
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Bitis Gaboonica
In before the Bite
I would hope my children would be strong enough to withstand the occasional company (especially among 300 other people) of a creep or two without falling apart.
SnakeDoc
it’s fun to reminisce about the old villains isn’t it? LOL! i live in the NoVA suburbs and i swear i saw a car with a personalized VA plate reading ESCHOIR years back and felt sure it had to have been him!
Constance is actually the cause of actions of children "defending themselves".
And the idea...hate the sin...not the sinne???r...
Promoting the agenda of a sinner simply doesn't work.
It's like saying a murderer has a right to kill but you don't hate him. But that's not it....You are the protector of your children. That is your duty...You don't have to hate the killer...but you darn well don't want him near your kids.
Think quick: Which is more dangerous: Bitis Gaboonica or Naja naja?
I have no idea what either of those terms mean (I typed as quick as I can).
SnakeDoc
ASH ALERT!
Oh, ok...thought you were a herpetologists.
Heh.....IBTB....nice.
yeah him too! oh and QUIDAM, but he was dreamy! ; )
>> Promoting the agenda of a sinner simply doesn’t work.
It is a private party. They can invite the person on condition that she leaves the “agenda”, and all its trappings, at the door.
>> It’s like saying a murderer has a right to kill but you don’t hate him. But that’s not it....You are the protector of your children. That is your duty...You don’t have to hate the killer...but you darn well don’t want him near your kids.
These aren’t 5-year-olds. They’re going to college in August. By that time, one would hope they could protect themselves.
SnakeDoc
heh..."thought you were a herpetologist"
Bitis gabonica
Naja naja
darn, that first one looks really nippy!
You forgot DITHF ;)
As a non-herpatologist ... I’d say you shouldn’t screw with either.
The handle “Snake Doctor” is lifted from the TV show The Unit.
SnakeDoc
It does seem weird to ask children of that age, still in the tender years of their sexual awareness, to reach out and try to minister once more to what the bible would identify as “swine.”
I invented my screen name to carry on a posting war with Eschoir during the fall 1997 M. Larry Lawrence-Arlington National Cemetery dust-up. :-)
As I read the article, it wasn’t about how the kids “treated” her. They simply failed to attend the “prom” arranged as a compromise after the school cancelled the official one.
Choices, choices. I say “kudos” to the kids for refusing to be good little ACLU drones.
they COULD have, but they actually KNOW this girl and her M.O., and you don't. based on what was posted from a member of that senior class, perhaps they just concluded that to have invited her with YOUR preconditions would have been an exercise in futility and so they skipped that step. you continue to superimpose your own ideas on this entire scenario to have it fit your judgment on it. Just because you aren't Sinky doesn't mean i can't continue to straighten you out on this ; )
oh there were so many oldies but goodies, back in the day.
Or even worse than futility, attracted spiritual attack for no good reason.
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