[Lesbian]Constance McMillen Case Has Put Every U.S. High School 'in Jeopardy': AFA

LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost ^ | July 20, 2010 | By Kathleen Gilbert

[topher]

Wednesday July 21, 2010

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Constance McMillen Case Has Put Every U.S. High School 'in Jeopardy': AFA

By Kathleen Gilbert

JACKSON, Mississippi, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Mississippi school district's decision to capitulate to the demands of a teen who sued for permission to wear a tuxedo and bring her same-sex partner to a high school prom has done great harm to high schools across America, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) Wednesday morning.

The Itawamba County School District agreed this week to pay $35,000 in addition to legal fees to Constance McMillen, who became a darling of the homosexualist movement for suing the school after it cancelled the prom rather than allow her to bring her same-sex date. The district has also agreed to let the court enter a judgment against them, and follow a "non-discrimination" policy regarding teens who call themselves homosexual - a move the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hailed as a precedent-setting victory for Mississippi.

AFA's Director of Issue Analysis, Bryan Fischer, told LSN that the decision amounts to “homosexual activists shaking down rural taxpayers for 35 grand."

"It's a shame that the school district capitulated, because their capitulation in the face of the homosexual agenda in the end is going to mean that every high school in America is going to have to let transvestites in full drag attend their senior proms," he said. 

By not engaging the court battle, said Fischer, the district "compromised the ability of every high school in America to defend natural norms of sexual expression."

Fischer expressed frustration that Otoswmbada school district turned down expert pro bono legal service, and instead hired an attorney "who did nothing more than negotiate the legal terms of their surrender."

"[By choosing] to navigate their way out of this crisis, they have put every other high school in America in jeopardy," he said. "They were not thinking of the implications for their capitulation for every high school student in America."

Since her case hit the national headlines, McMillen has enjoyed several perks, including at least one $30,000 scholarship from Tonic.com, an invitation to a White House celebration hosted by President Obama, and an invitation to act as marshal of New York City's Pride March last month.

Following the decision, McMillen issued a message thanking her supporters. "I think it's great that there's that many people out there that understand the difference between wrong and right," said McMillen in a video statement published by the ACLU, noting in a written statement that she hopes the decision "means that in the future students at my school will be treated fairly."

However, despite McMillen's satisfaction, Fischer says the district's decision will do nothing but hurt the teen. "They have done Constance no favors by giving in to her demands, because they are assisting her in accepting a lifestyle that is destructive.”

Fischer blamed advocates of the radical homosexual agenda for manipulating an impressionable teenager to advance their agenda. Pro-family leaders have frequently denounced homosexualist leaders for making use of children and teenagers as easy targets for recruiting campaign messengers.

"This illustrates how evil advances in America: It advances because kindhearted, goodhearted people refuse to stand up against evil and stare it down; instead they capitulate, they concede, they give in," he said.

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

School District Pays $35K to Teen over Same-Sex Prom Date Ban
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jul/10072011.html

White House Fetes Lesbian Banned from Cross-Dressing at Prom
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10062211.html

10-Year-Old Boy Used as Grand Marshal of Arkansas Homosexual Fest
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10062511.html

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[gitmo]

"[By choosing] to navigate their way out of this crisis, they have put every other high school in America in jeopardy," he said. "They were not thinking of the implications for their capitulation for every high school student in America."

How does this hurt other high schools? I don't get it.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"Privatize all education and give poor parents vouchers so they can choose the school they want for their children.

Problem solved.

The gay lobby is well on the way to making discrimination against gays equivalent in the eyes of the law with discrimination against minorities and women.

If it's not OK to discriminate against blacks, hispanics, women, etc. in a private school then it won't be OK to discriminate against homosexuals either.

So privatizing schools won't counter this threat.

Even home schooling may come under fire if the state can claim some ability to certify parents. Certification may require that parents teach their children the "wonders" of alternative lifestyles.

Where this is really going to get whacky is when helicopter moms start demanding proms for 1st graders, kindergarteners, and pre-schoolers.

Imagine a couple of pre-schooler "lesbians" showing up at their prom in matching tuxedos.

Will the fecal matter finally hit the rotating wind generating device then?

[trumandogz]

See: Equal Protection Clause

[topher]

Schools will have to allow homosexual couples/dating at Proms or get sued.

I do not think people want their children to go to high school dances where folks might be in drag and girls kissing girls and boys kissing boys...

[dfwgator]

The schools will just cancel the proms altogether.

[Fast Moving Angel]

I originally posted this partially tongue-in-cheek -- but on reflection, is this really any more absurd than the lesbian suing to wear a tuxedo and bring her girlfriend as a date? Let's take it a step farther -- since the "butch" lesbians want to be boys anyway (or at least take the place of boys), why not make them change in front of the boys? You'd think they'd feel right at home. No, I wouldn't exclude them from physical education -- matter of fact, I'd put them on the boys' teams ... they'd probably do very well. (sarcasm off ... sorta ...)

Just another reason to homeschool your kids.

[gitmo]

How does this school’s decision to cave mean other schools will get sued by homosexuals?

[Surtur]

How does this hurt other high schools? I don't get it.

PRECEDENT. This school's capitulation sets a legal standard other homo litigants can use in their own suits in every other school district in the country.

[Surtur]

How does this school’s decision to cave mean other schools will get sued by homosexuals?

Because homosexuals have an agenda. If you haven't understood that by now, then you have lost the moral compass God gave you. We are in a war for the soul of this country, and we are losing because of the unwillingness or the inability of moral people to engage in the same manner as the morally corrupt.

[gitmo]

PRECEDENT. This school's capitulation sets a legal standard other homo litigants can use in their own suits in every other school district in the country.

But if they capitulated and settled out of court, does that really establish a legal precedent? I thought a case had to go to completion to establish a legal precedent.

[gitmo]

Of course they have an agenda. My question is how does the failure of this school to fight this in court negatively affect other schools. See post 28 for a better explanation.

[who knows what evil?]

Get your kids out of public schools.

Amen...why would any parent leave their child's education up to a perfect stranger? Teachers WILL corrupt your kids...

[Chloe313]

The girls just wanted to go to their prom together. Banning them or telling them what they can’t wear was a very stupid move. What’s the first thing a teenager wants to do when something is forbidden to them? Go out and do it while shouting as loudly as they can get away with. The ‘homosexual agenda’ would have been furthered a lot less if the couple had been allowed to go without a fuss so maybe this is a ‘homophobic agenda’ designed to frighten people into believing they’re under attack from LGBT groups or anyone who lives a different lifestyle.

[topher]

Are you saying that children at PROMS should do drugs and other illicit behavior? Basically, homosexual behavior is considered abnormal behavior. There is a new study from New Zealand that claims that trauma during childhood is an explanation for homosexual tendencies.

Should we consider alcoholism normal behavior? Should we encourage teens to be alcoholics?

Since the children are not adults yet, then they should not be engaged in this abnormal behavior.

In nature, if two animals tend to be homosexual, they will die out. Reproduction is a necessity of life. So if animals turn to homosexual behavior rather than taking male/female relationships to reproduce, then that breed of animals will die out...

[Chloe313]

I’m not saying they should engage in possibly harmful behaviour such as drug taking, I’m saying that anything forbidden becomes more attractive because it’s forbidden.

What do you mean by abnormal? If I take it in the psychological sense of being behaviour outside the norms of society then I still don’t see a problem if it doesn’t cause harm. The only harm you seem afraid of is that all these openly gay people will somehow infect the rest of the human population with homosexuality.

I’m afraid I don’t understand the comparison of homosexuality with alcoholism. At all. Alcoholism is a physical addiction to a drug that can totally destroy lives. I can understand a comparison of drug addiction to love, unrestricted to the choice of partner. Homosexuality is a damaging lifestyle only because of the indignities and scorn they suffer because of people prejudiced against anything that looks different to the way they can imagine life.

Also, I wouldn’t worry about that New Zealand study, chilhood trauma is rightly blamed for many adult problems but homosexuality is not a problem.

[Labyrinthos]

She wanted to wear a tuxedo to her Prom. Maybe she should have opted out of her senior year for a sex change operation...

Maybe they should have let her wear the tux to the prom. The District would have saved $35k and this would have been old news before it was even news.

[topher]

I was walking around a college campus, and I noticed the symbol on the restrooms.

The universal symbol is a man/boy dressed in pants and shirt and a woman/girl dressed in a dress.

If the girl had been allowed to go the PROM in a Tux, she might have been stopped for going into the women's bathroom.

Who is to know she is a girl?

Also, as far as I am concerned, that logic that allows homosexuals to dress in a weird way for PROM's would also be logic to allow pedophile's to attend PROM's.

It has been the rule for PROM's that girls wear dresses and boys wear suits/tuxedos.

If you want to change the rules, then why not have a BIKINI or a .

Or just make dress optional -- have a nude PROM.

[topher]

I wrote:

If you want to change the rules, then why not have a BIKINI or a .

Should have been:

If you want to change the rules, then why not have a BIKINI or a TOPLESS PROM.