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 ...
she did. The ACLU DEMANDED UNDER penalty of law that the other seniors be forced to ACCEPT constance’s presence and like it.
comment 21 says it all. She was a self absorbed child who is now a self absorbed adult with a “look at me” use of her mating behavior.
Constance was provocative, deliberate and disruptive....She should have been suspended. They surely have such a rule.
>> 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.
If they don’t skip the step, I’d have no objection at all ... and, honestly, it would have played better with regard to PR. “We invited her, but she chose not to attend” is a lot better, and far more gracious in appearance, than the current stories that are circulating.
>> you continue to superimpose your own ideas on this entire scenario
As do we all.
>> Just because you aren’t Sinky doesn’t mean i can’t continue to straighten you out on this ; )
I’d be hugely disappointed otherwise.
SnakeDoc
The ACLU case dealt with the official prom, not a private party.
>> She was a self absorbed child who is now a self absorbed adult with a “look at me” use of her mating behavior.
Granted.
SnakeDoc
PR schmee-R.
Anyone who isn’t brain dead understands and very likely cheers the kids.
PR with WHOM? with you and likeminded libs on that ridiculous FIG website who are so worried about self esteem issues? we are all entitled to superimpose our own ideas, but we cannot superimpose made up facts like actual mis-direction to wrong location, noninvitation of others etc.
yeah, but she’s a member of a protected class. and now she has snakedoc protecting her self-esteem from further damage due to ostracization.
no the ACLU cried foul and said the private prom was the defacto prom. The school board said fine, and agreed to chaparone it as if it was the original prom.
Now she has to show damages.
Duty breach causation damage.
This jerk will have to show the result would have been any different if the prom went forward as originally planned.
I think it is obvious the reult would have been the same. NOBODY other than those same seven would have gone to the pron and instead they would have opted for the private “constance free” party.
Constance should not complain. she has a free toyota...oops lexus.
I couldn’t care less about her self-esteem. She has plenty of reason to feel bad about herself and her behavior.
SnakeDoc
It’s in the guise of “one last outreach” he can be proud of — despite the biblical warning about pearls and pigs.
IGNORE THE TROLL
Because you are wrong! I wish all of the other students the best of luck in the future. Their senior year was ruined by the acts of a selfish, bitter kid who does not have better sense. No wonder, her so called date’s parents did not want her name given out. Instead of just going without saying a word she got the ACLU involved in something they had no business being involved in.
>> PR with WHOM?
With people like me ... regular joe’s who catch these stories while going about their lives. Liberals and gay activists cannot be satisfied in this particular situation, so why bother courting their approval?
SnakeDoc
How do you know the others did not know about the other party? Constance did. After what she did, I would not want to be within miles of her.
so what do you care about? the souls of those who chose NOT to invite her? the souls of the attendees of an event to which she wasn’t invited? precisely whom are you looking out for with the need to go through a charade of inviting this girl, who you admit brought all of this upon herself and who has engaged in untoward behavior? you are willing to cast as unchristian and engaging in ostracization those who were at the alternate event. i am not. i think they are likely perfectly godly, Christ-following, living-in-the-Spirit, people who decided that they knew her, knew what her MO was, and did not want any drama tainting this event to celebrate their senior year. drama that had already cast a pall over it.
>> Would you force them, with the power of the state to attend an event against their first amendment rights?
No.
SnakeDoc
Me, too.
I have already made clear that I come at this from the perspective of a parent, and react as I would if my kids had been among those who ostracized people from the actual event. My concern would be for the behavior of my own kids in such a case ... or for the behavior of similar kids that were actually in the situation.
SnakeDoc
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