School cancels prom rather than allow gay teens to attend

[Pombolo]

""but a lot more people here have biblically based values."

Any price to appease the bigots. Of course, when the bigots are perhaps the majority, then this can be masqueraded as 'democratic responsibility'.

[Chinaski]

[Valden]

Too bad for you, she's a Lesbian.

[Chinaski]

Have you seen my pictures? Apparently I'm so feminine that even Devogue wants to sleep with me.

Apart from that, I still think this cartoon applies...

[Horwood Beer-Master]

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I am shocked by that image!!







Don't you know they were 767s

[anthonzi]

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I am shocked by that image!!







Don't you know they were 767s

Ya, but the explosion would have been bigger if they were 747s i.e. better.

[cursuswalker]

Fuck 'em. Any school that makes such idiotic decisions doesn't deserve to have proms.

And, as a side note, she is mighty purdy

[Horwood Beer-Master]

...My conclusion? Proms are stupid...

Proms are an evil, evil american virus which is now infecting our shores.

Burn them! Burn them all!!!!!!!!!!

Further evidence to support my "Ban the Prom" position..,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/gla ... 329253.stm

Stretched-limos!? Helicopters!? At fucking primary school!!?! :I-love-pork:

[Ian]

Follow-up to this story: Constance won $35,000 in a lawsuit.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/20/mis ... l?hpt=Sbin

In Mississippi no less! I'm impressed. Mississippi's the most backwards state in the union. The only people who disagree are Mississippians and/or those who think it's Alabama.
And the diehard conservatives who figure it to be Massachusets.

[owtth]

Hahahaha, great result.

[lordpasternack]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_ ... _prom_date

JACKSON, Miss. – A rural school district that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her girlfriend has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit the ACLU filed on her behalf.

The district also agreed to follow a non-discrimination policy as part of the settlement, though it argues such a policy was already in place.

Constance McMillen, 18, said the victory came at the price of her being shunned in her small hometown of Fulton.

"I knew it was a good cause, but sometimes it really got to me. I knew it would change things for others in the future and I kept going and I kept pushing," McMillen said in an interview Tuesday.

The flap started in March when McMillen challenged the Itawamba County School District's rules banning prom dates of the same gender and allowing only male students to wear tuxedos. The district responded by canceling its prom, prompting the ACLU to file suit claiming the teen's rights had been violated and demanding the prom be reinstated.

U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson refused to make school officials hold the prom, but he said in a March 23 ruling that the district had violated McMillen's rights.

The district later announced parents would sponsor another prom chaperoned by school officials. But ACLU lawyers claimed the event was a "sham prom" attended by only about 10 students, while most of McMillen's classmates partied at a private event elsewhere, a claim the school denied. McMillen's suit also says she's been harassed for her stand against the school's policy.

Interesting story. I must confess that I originally read the title as "Lesbian gets $35K settlement over canceled porn" - and that's part of my motive for posting it - to report that fact.

[Animavore]

So did I. Which is why I clicked so fast.