prom thing...
Posted on 03/14/2010 5:45:27 PM PDT by Maelstorm
As most people have already heard, a Mississippi school has canceled its Senior Prom in response to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf Constance McMillen, a young girl who was barred from attending the school dance because her choice of date is also female. The chain of events are pretty simple.
Back in December Constance inquired about the possibility of bringing her girlfriend to the upcoming event and was told it was against school policy. According to her the rule is meant to prevent non-coupled students from purchasing tickets at a discount price; guest tickets are only $10.
As a compromise she offered to arrive separately from her date who would meet her inside but was told that her choice of attire, a tuxedo, might be disruptive to the other students and if anyone complained of their dancing, they would be told to leave. After explaining to her principal that the policy was discriminatory against homosexual students and still being refused, she took her complaint to the ACLU and the Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition.
Here is where things get awesome.
In the memo announcing the dissolution of this years Prom the Itawamaba County school board expressed its "hope that private citizens will organize an event for the juniors and seniors." In response to this heartfelt wish, American Humanist Association members Todd and Diana Stiefel have made a $20,000 grant available in order to throw the Itawamba Agricultural High School their own, privately funded Senior Prom, open to all who wish to attend. As a fan of debate, this sort of tactical rebuttal is a thing of beauty. You want to enact a discriminatory policy against your students, then wash your hands of the whole thing? You want to leave it up to the invisible hand of the free-market to provide your students with a the most important dance of their young lives? That's fine. We do precisely that, tuxedo lesbians and all.
This is precisely the sort of activity Humanism should be involved in and it is wonderful to see it in action. What remains to be seen how open to this the Itawamba community is to the proposal but I suspect those students will have one hell of a kick-ass senior prom. Constance may have been told by a few students that she has "ruined highschool" but with any luck she'll be the Beau of the Ball
I wonder if this “prom” will be like this one held in MA?
Kids attend prom from ‘sexual hell’
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=100806
That’s fine with me. I hope that a heterosexual-friendly prom is put together as well.
Here in Virginia, they don’t really stop gays from going to the real proms, but the gays still have their own prom.
What about the guy from Korea who married his pillow? Maybe he’ll want to come, too. No weirdo left behind.
I would hope that no one would attend the humanist ball except the lovely couple, but I am afraid that the coming generation has already accepted homosexuality as an “alternative lifestyle.” Sometimes I shudder for the future of this nation.
Sick.
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She’s the “beau” of the ball?
Hmmm...I thought the girl was supposed to be the belle of the ball.
There is NO future for a nation that raises homosexuality to a "right"; promotes abortion, partial-birth abortion, the euthanizing of our elderly and infirm, no "future" whatsoever other than total destruction.
But ultimately, God is in control whether some, or many, believe it or not. It is up to us to continue following His word regardless.
It’s amazing really....10, 15 years ago when I was in high school, they sent the lesbians to a mental hospital. My how times have changed.
The American Humanist Association?
Is that anything like The Human Fund?
prom thing...
Make it a "private" donation-funded event now, bankrolled, of course, with public tax dollars as explained in the link for the prom from hell.
On the positive side, no one is forced to attend and, if my instinct is correct, no normal families would want their kids within a mile of the drug-addled perverts. Of course, for parents who don't have a clue it won't matter at all.
We shall see.
Why isn’t anyone on the right side of this issue offering to host a prom? Are we that afraid of the Fag Lobby—even in rural Mississippi???
It would be interesting to see how much this group has contributed to the earthquake victims in Haiti and Chile. My guess it that it is a lot less than $20,000.
In my high school (which was Catholic and co-ed), girls brought other girls as their “dates” all the time, mostly because their “date” was a friend from a different school and they wanted to go to the same party. The tickets cost the same (they were not sold “per couple”). No one had any objection to it. However, the students were expected to be on their best non-sleazy behavior, and if anything inappropriate was going on, then it became a problem, regardless of whether it was a straight or gay problem. No one chose to broadcast their private choices.
Heck, we even had a straight couple cross-dress as a joke, and all the teachers thought it was funny! (It was a well-known class clown and his date.)
If this girl wanted to bring a female date to the prom, there were probably a billion ways she could have made it happen. It sounds like she was more interested in making a statement and/or becoming a whiny victim.
Proms aren’t for married people.
20K for a prom for 2 people...go for it.
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