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.
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.
I disagree that the school should have held the dance and allowed the girl to attend in a tuxedo. A school has the right to set a dress code for its students. It also has the right to set standards of conduct for students, to include not dancing with members of the same sex if it so chooses. Homosexuality is not a protected class under the US Constitution. I don’t know about the constitution of the state in question, but it probably doesn’t include “sexual orientation” as a protected class either.
Homosexuals can take their agenda and shove it. They have no right to force the rest of society to bend to their will. I could just as easily claim a right to polygamy, necrophilia or bestiality. Should the school bend if I want to bring a harem, animal or corpse as my date?
Fact: the vast majority of people are NOT homosexual.
Fact: homosexuality is dysfunctional by nature.
Again, there’s no reason why the rest of society should bend to accept homosexuality as normal. It is homosexuals who should bend to accept the dominant culture. As they say, what they do in privacy is their own business. So keep it PRIVATE, and we’ll all get along just fine.