School Prom Canceled after ACLU Insists on Cross Dressing and Gay Dates

CE ^ | March 12, 2010 | John-Henry Westen

[NYer]

“Now they are even trying to get a federal judge to dictate to the school whether they hold a prom or not,” he added.

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[Sacajaweau]

Should be entitled: Girl looking for 15 minutes and a lot of money.....

[ClearCase_guy]

The precedent on such cases was set in Canada in 2002.

Did they invoke Scottish Law?

Why does our legal system keep looking at foreign nations for guidance?

[chainsaw]

This could be non-productive. If all the other students fail to attend the prom, the only two there will be the lesbians. Hardly a setting for a festive occasion.

The ACLU should be abolished.

[The Brush]

The ACLU goes to court in an attempt to change the law of unintended consequences.

[doodad]

she is in fact being given the same right as all other students – to bring an opposite sex date to the prom

Ooohh, they hate when you use that logical argument.

[chainsaw]

Why does our legal system keep looking at foreign nations for guidance?

I would like to think that some of the justices on our SC can’t read the constitution, it’s too deep for them.

[Vaquero]

What I have to say about the ACLU, the _resident and this despicable agenda (along with a plethora of other leftist agendas) will not pass the light of day with the Administrator....suffice it say that the harshest terms possible are in play for my response....

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

ACLU = Communists/enemies of all things American

[LeftiesBinWhinin]

Agreed. Boycott the prom and have a private party elsewhere.

[tlb]

I see no good-faith argument that a high school MUST hold a prom. It’s a voluntary extra-curricular activity that will usually occur but is not a mandatory event. ACLU is blowing smoke.

The school should however have just held the dance, refrained from comment, and let her wear her tuxedo. Last night I watched the movie “Flashdance”. Jennifer Beales looked quite fetching wearing her tux to dinner with her boyfriend. Several generations ago so did Marlena Dietrich. It’s a better look then much of the slutty fashions the school would have permitted.

Girls dancing with girls isn’t unusual, and not even a fraction as disruptive as this incident has snowballed into. The noon-time sockhops my junior high held were normally girls dancing together. It was no big deal. The school has handled this as ham-handedly as they possibly could have.

[duckworth]

To hell with gubmint schools holding proms and parents and students having to deal with gubmint courts and ACLU gadflys.

Just make the entire thing a private affair. Start a private parent/student prom-planning group, sell tickets, rent out a hall, hire a caterer, hire a band, put up decorations, etc.

At most proms, student and parent volunteers do most of the work anyway. It’s no harder than planning a big wedding, and once you set the template, you just do the same planning routine every year — big deal! Who needs the gubmint involved?

[Haiku Guy]

This could be non-productive. If all the other students fail to attend the prom, the only two there will be the lesbians. Hardly a setting for a festive occasion.

I think I saw a movie like that once...

[ronniesgal]

I agree. Wearing a tux is not a big deal. Everyone probably knew she was gay( I doubt she was discreet).
I think she tried to make a mountain outta nothing for the attention.
BTW my straight daughter went to her prom with girls as she did not have a date but wanted to go anyways.
If her school had sent out a letter saying you must attend with a member of the opposite sex, I would have had something to say about it.

[TexasFreeper2009]

This is exactly how the south lost most of it cafe’s inside of grocery stores, the government said they had to be integrated... so the store owners said “forget that! I will close them first!” and they did.

[concerned about politics]

Now the ACLU is suing the school, asking the courts to force the Itawamba County School District to hold the prom and permit 18-year-old Constance McMillen to attend with her lesbian partner

Only if the parents of the homosexuals agree to pay all the property taxes and expenses of the school district from now on. Otherwise, the parents of the other students, and the board they elected, are in charge.

Should the school allow kids to bring, lets say, sex animals to the prom, too? What if a student is doing his dog?
How about blow up dolls or vibrators? Whips and chains? Why stop at one kink? Why not bring it all in and keep it fair?

Where do normal people draw the line? Why corrupt our entire culture because of a few dysfunctional freaks?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You will soon see public high schools no longer sponsoring the high school prom. It will be jobbed out.

[HIDEK6]

I don’t think this is about the gay agenda, I think it is about allowing the courts to dictate what happens at a school.

[Thermalseeker]

Why does our legal system keep looking at foreign nations for guidance?

For the same reason we have the Kelo SCOTUS decision. Because we continue to sit back and allow the trampling of our Constitution to happen......