Constance McMillen Photo: AP
Posted on 04/07/2010 7:56:09 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Disappointment as US high school students snub 'lesbian-friendly prom'
Senior prom fell far short of the rite of passage Constance McMillen was hoping for when she began a legal battle to challenge a ban on same-sex dates.
Published: 7:00AM BST 07 Apr 2010
Constance McMillen Photo: AP
The 18-year-old lesbian student said that she was one of only seven students to show up at a private party chaperoned by school officials. She said the rest of her peers went to another private event where she wasn't invited.
"It was not the prom I imagined," she said. "It really hurts my feelings. These are still people who I've gone through school with, even teachers who loved me before this all started. I've never been a bad student and I don't feel like I deserve to be put through this."
Her case drew a national spotlight after she and the American Civil Liberties Union challenged an Itawamba County School District rule that banned same-sex prom dates and a requirement that only male students wear tuxedos. Proms are parties held for students, generally in their senior year in high school.
The ACLU sent a demand letter to Superintendent Teresa McNeece in February, saying the rules against same-sex prom dates and girls wearing tuxedos violated Miss McMillen's constitutional rights. The district responded by withdrawing its sponsorship and cancelling the April 2 event.
In an apparent compromise, school district officials said parents would organise a private event with school chaperones that Miss McMillen could attend.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
When responding to this, it’s well to remember the biblical admonition not to cast pearls before swine. That sounded like some pretty loud oinking in that courtroom.
Is SnakeDoc, sinkspur?
dang! can we do that??? LOL! i am going to say i don’t think that snakedoc is sinkspur. i think sinkspur was older, and certainly did not have a small child. he was also an outspoken Catholic deacon of the novus ordo persuasion who was always on the Catholic threads and i can’t say i have ever seen Snakedoc on those.
Poor Snake Doc.
I’ve been looking, but I can not find even one FReeper who has replied positively on your behalf.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe someone has taken your side.
But overall, what do you make of your arguments in where NO ONE else agrees with you?
hey, at least i spoke up for him and said i am pretty sure he’s not sinkspur! LOL!
>> i don’t want to rag on you, but you have dug in on this and while you didn’t SAY any of the things i imputed to you
I am well aware that I said no such thing. You “imputed” wrongly.
>> all of those things were insinuated by what you did say. just pointing out to you how it comes across. the clear inference to be drawn from your statements is that those of us who disagree with your stand are less Christian than you.
I neither implied nor insinuated any such thing — I am in no position to determine who is more or less Christian than anyone else. If that is the conclusion you draw, then you clearly don’t know me at all ... and you intentionally skip over each of the instances when I acknowledged directly that I have been wrong before, and wouldn’t rule out that I could be wrong here.
I have stated my opinion directly ... but do not lack humility in the understanding that my opinion is not always right.
SnakeDoc
Hssssssssssssssssssssss!
Cast cast cast oink oink oink turn turn turn tear tear tear
I have never disputed that it was a private party and that they were within their legal rights to disinclude anyone they wanted.
SnakeDoc
>> But overall, what do you make of your arguments in where NO ONE else agrees with you?
Post 65 agreed with me in full.
But, It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been thought wrong — and would be entirely unremarkable if I was wrong.
I suppose such heavy disagreement is a rarity — but it happens. I defended John McCain (tactically, not ideologically — I’m fully aware he’s a RINO) in a thread a month or two back and got some backlash there too. I defended Palin’s McCain endorsement and got some backlash also.
Just goes to show all of those that think conservatives agree on everything. Conservatives, even Christian conservatives, are typically independent thinkers ... so you’ll get some times when one or two disagree with the crowd.
I’m sure I’ll live through it.
SnakeDoc
I'm thinking not. "ThePatriot1776" is not a handle I remember from 1997, but is possibly one from 1998.
I was just twisting SnakeDoctor's tail, mostly, but he claims to be from Texas, so you never know.
I’ve been on some Catholic threads — but as a Baptist, I’m not always popular there. Haha.
I don’t know who “sinkspur” is ... but everyone else seems to.
SnakeDoc
Sinkie was a PHONY deacon, which is why he was "escorted" off Free Republic.
well let’s just say hitechredneck wasn’t complimenting you by thinking you were sink, LOL!!
Annoying? Perhaps.
Like I said, I was mostly twisting your tail.
i know, i know, was just trying to synopsize the story to show why snakey is not sinky ; )
Just repeat the following, it will make you feel better. (I practice it often, being married and a man)
You're absolutely right
You've been right all along
you're absolutely right
and I've been wrong.
And don't show up in your underwear or I will have to dis invite you.
Not just a moral sinkhole, though - possibly a tool of lesbian pedophiles, to advance the interests of the National Woman-Girl Love Association (NWGLA) [OK, I made NWGLA up out of whole cloth - try The Vagina Ideologues, instead].
I wouldn't want a tool of lesbian or homosexual pedophiles hanging around with MY children or grandchildren.
Period.
>> Just repeat the following, it will make you feel better. (I practice it often, being married and a man)You’re absolutely right
You’ve been right all along
you’re absolutely right
and I’ve been wrong.
Never surrender!!
>> And don’t show up in your underwear or I will have to dis invite you.
Being a married man, I practice showing up in my underwear often ... never got me “disinvited” though. Haha.
SnakeDoc
Pre-March For Justice hugs, then. :-)
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