...keep it in your pants.
Posted on 03/11/2010 11:46:20 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
JACKSON, Miss. – An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student whose school district canceled her senior prom rather than allow her to escort her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo said she got some unfriendly looks from classmates when she reluctantly returned to campus Thursday.
Constance McMillen said she didn't want to go back the day after the Itawamba County school board's decision, but her father told her she needed to face her classmates, teachers and school officials.
"My daddy told me that I needed to show them that I'm still proud of who I am," McMillen told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "The fact that this will help people later on, that's what's helping me to go on."
The district announced Wednesday it wouldn't host the April 2 prom. The decision came after the American Civil Liberties Union told officials a policy banning same-sex prom dates violated students' rights. The ACLU said the district not letting McMillen wear a tuxedo violated her free expression rights.
McMillen said she felt some hostility toward her on the Itawamba County Agricultural High School campus.
"Somebody said, 'Thanks for ruining my senior year.'" McMillen said.
The school board issued a statement announcing it wouldn't host the event in Fulton, "due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events."
The statement didn't mention McMillen or the ACLU. When asked by the AP if McMillen's demand led to the cancellation, school board attorney Michele Floyd said she could only reference the statement.
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A “You are most welcome!!” BTTT !!!
I think we should outlaw public schools.
Wait a minute...isn’t she 18? Her date is a sophomore which would maker her say 15 or 16. Hmmm....sounds like statutory rape to me or at least contributing to the deliquency of a minor. This McMullen chick isn’t just a wierdo she’s a criminal! Don’t they have laws in Mississippi? Come on and step up and do the right thing.
I’m mildly surprised they didn’t go ahead and expel them both for being lesbians while they were at it.
Yep thats it in a nutshell..
She CHOOSES to be a lesbian and then in typical fashion of liberals whines when her choices are not held up as equal and normal...THEY ARE NOT. I will never yield to such people making this demand.
But without school dances, how would Marty McFly’s parents ever have met?
You didn’t think that one through.
As I understand it, though, the idea isn’t originating with the guys - it’s the girls who consider that it might be a good idea and the guys are just encouraging it.
The girls, being girls, are obsessed with fashion and what they are told by the media is ‘cool’ and ‘fashionable’. (I mean no offense to any female FReepers here, but ladies, if this wasn’t so, Cosmo and ‘seventeen’ wouldn’t have the enormous circulation they do.) What they’re being told is cool is lesbianism and bisexualism, and the guys are only encouraging what the girls are often trying anyway.
Obviously, daddy has a lot to do with the dysfunction of his daughter.
lol
I asked this on another thread. Has anyone asked the students?
I find it hard to imagine that 17 and 18 year olds in 2010 are going to be scandalized by a Lesbian couple attending a dance. Most girls that age either already have or are beginning their search for their “Best Gay.”
Schools shouldn’t have proms anyway.
What? You must not have been invited or could not get a date. That is honestly the only reason you would say such a thing. I went to three of them and had a great time.
Oooph. She looks like Paul Sorvino.
OK. I might be in the minority here but I dont see the big deal. I dont agree with homosexual lifestyle, but for the school to cancel the prom for everyone because they dont want to cave for 1 individual couple is just plain dumb.
If you took a poll, most in the nation are going to think the school district is acting stupid here. Seriously, just let the 2 girls go and leave them alone.
The hot nights and strict manners, led to polite conversation and hidden lust along side of the Great River. This woman is a dry channel a future maden Aunt.
If as you say - you don’t support the homosexual lifestyle - then you would be a hypocrite if you were to approve and allow those two lesbians.
How is it hypocritical?
One may not approve of Proms in the first place. (I think they have became an obscene fashion show). But I fail to see how excluding this couple makes it any better?
Fear not, teens. You may spend obscene amounts of money on ugly dresses and get some hand action in the back of limos without the fear of a Lesbian couple standing in front of you in the buffet line.
(My senior prom required me renting a limo, taking it 25 miles to Pittsburgh, going to a party in a hotel, walking to the Gateway Clipper in the middle of the night in a tux, returning home at 3 in the morning, and still graduating a virgin. All in all, I don’t have pleasant memories of the night).
Personally, I think a lot less was made of this before the GLBT lobby started insisting on rights and special treatment.
I’m not sure why a girl in a tux would disrupt a dance, but making national headlines about it certainly does. I wasn’t aware of any rules that required you to bring a date to the prom, or to wear a specific outfit, so I don’t see how she and her “date” couldn’t have just shown up however they wanted.
But the fact that we knew about this in advance suggests that they made a big deal out of it, forcing it to be a public matter, and this is what happened.
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