Posted on 05/24/2006 12:21:24 PM PDT by DBeers
GARY, Ind. A male high school student was barred from his prom at Gary's West Side High School because he wanted to wear a dress to the event.
Eighteen-year-old Kevin Logan says he is a homosexual who is exploring his sexual identity. He has dressed as a female while attending classes this year.
Logan arrived last Friday for the prom wearing a fuchsia, slinky prom dress and heels but was not allowed inside.
School officials say its school policy that males can't wear dresses. They refunded the 85-dollars he paid for a prom ticket.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana says Logan's First Amendment Rights were violated.
Logan's mother, Donnetta, said she was not surprised by what she called the ignorance of school administrators.
He shoulda claimed to be "Scottish" and worn one of those cross-dressing "kilts" and claimed that it was "part of his culture". Then they would've let him in.
Damn cross-dressing Scots.
Yea, me too. Here's a site to reminisce with. I haven't delved into it very much so hope there's no no-no's. :-)
Yet another reason why my screen name is MAexile and not MAresident.
"The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana says Logan's First Amendment Rights were violated."
It's called DECORUM! If I was a nudist I wouldn't go to a prom naked and say that they were enfringing on my first amendment rights because they wouldn't let me in! And besides, I don't care if your gay, you don't need to wear women's clothes! You can still be yourself while wearing a tux.
He can dress however he wants on his own time, but when he's at a public event, especially a formal one, he should respect the school's traditions and beliefs. An event this important to so many other students isn't the time or place to "make a statement." They keep telling us to respect other people's beliefs, well why don't they practice what they preach for once!
LOL.
I think I prefer the dress.
Gee, I wonder what environmental factors in this guy's history could have contributed to his becoming a sexual deviate? Hmmm, I guess we really don't have any clues available.
Only if the barnyard animal was appropriately attired.
Has anyone ever stopped even for a second to think rationally about this: of all the fetishes in the world, by what logic did liberals decide to pick this ONE fetish to call "free speech?"
What about a leather facemask and a whip? Necrophiliacs? Bestialists? Fecophiliacs? Should children be encouraged to "express" themselves like that? Of course not; that's just plain WEIRD!
But a guy wearing a dress; why not? After all, boys will be girls, right? What could possibly be more healthy and wholesome than that?
This is nothing but a wedge issue. Homosexual fetishists don't deserve any rights that any other fetishists don't have. But liberals wouldn't EXIST if they didn't have something disgusting to shove down society's throat.
Liberalism may have once been a political movement, but today it has become absolutely nothing but perversion solely for the sake of perversion.
whooda thunk it!!??
Yep, it is indeed a sad day when a man cant bring his goat to the prom.
I would rather wear a dress than be caught in that zoot suit. What a butt ugly tux.
Or his Penguin...
ROTFLMAO
The thing is, nobody is trying to go to the prom in anything other than a dress. I agree it is weird and the school can do whatever it wants, but to make a big deal out of it is silly, for the school and the ACLU
#13 i have always thought they were a silly pack of assholes.
Thank you, that's how I should have worded my previous post.
The difference of course being the knives that well dressed scotsmen wear with their kilts.
"School officials say its school policy that males can't wear dresses."
Interesting sentence; as it stands its should be it's, but if that was precededed by states, then its would be correct.
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