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 ...
TRANSLATION:
"I'm a media whore who wants to publicly flaunt my perceived sexuality and no one will associate with me!"
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LOL! Call an waaambulance, girly.
You did it to yourself.
You made your choice, they made theirs. Grow up and live with it.
I don't hang with prostitutes, or pimps or drug pushers or alcoholics or wife beaters etc either...You're just another category of "deviant" life styles.
Constance (It’s All About Me) McMillen
someone needs to inform Connie she has no constitutional right to be LIKED and that no one is constitutionally required to want to spend time with her.
Great find! Thanks!
“My understanding is that some of the remaining seven were “special needs” kids ... not homosexuals.”
“Special needs” embraces a wide range of learning or physical challenges which can also include ED (emotionally disturbed) and or behavior unit students. I doubt that this high school only has 7 special needs children.
The letter from a student in a previous comment stated they wanted drama free. Behaviour Unit students are far from drama free.
LOL - never heard that saying but I like it.
Ms Attention Hog got lawyers and ruined the school event for everyone else, and you're blaming everyone else? Remind me not to let my kids associate with your kids. One of them might break something in my home and sue me for having it in their presence.
I wouldn’t want to drink from the same punch bowl.
A chilling observation.
Right...Until your daughter brought Constance home and said they were going to do their homework in you daughter’s bedroom.
You would be upset with your child, for refusing to be steamrolled by the liberal, pro-homosexual agenda, that was being forced down thier throats?
I would have been PROUD of mine for standing up for THEIR RIGHT to have a prom without having to cowtow to ANY LIBERAL AGENDA.
I think it’s completely appealing!
Too darn bad. You can’t force people to like what you represent. You can’t force people to accept your small little world. Welcome to planet Earth.
Snakey prolly is like one of the parents of the 7.
The report says that her “peers” went to another party. I wonder if “they” consider themselves her peers. Or do they consider her a no class buffoon that brought a lot of unwanted attention and media hounds to their neck of the woods.
From what I’ve read, her “partner’s” parents have said that they’ll sue McMillan if she makes their daughter’s identity public. She must be a minor.
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