[Lesbian]Constance McMillen Case Has Put Every U.S. High School 'in Jeopardy': AFA

LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost ^ | July 20, 2010 | By Kathleen Gilbert

[topher]

Wednesday July 21, 2010

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Constance McMillen Case Has Put Every U.S. High School 'in Jeopardy': AFA

By Kathleen Gilbert

JACKSON, Mississippi, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Mississippi school district's decision to capitulate to the demands of a teen who sued for permission to wear a tuxedo and bring her same-sex partner to a high school prom has done great harm to high schools across America, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) Wednesday morning.

The Itawamba County School District agreed this week to pay $35,000 in addition to legal fees to Constance McMillen, who became a darling of the homosexualist movement for suing the school after it cancelled the prom rather than allow her to bring her same-sex date. The district has also agreed to let the court enter a judgment against them, and follow a "non-discrimination" policy regarding teens who call themselves homosexual - a move the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hailed as a precedent-setting victory for Mississippi.

AFA's Director of Issue Analysis, Bryan Fischer, told LSN that the decision amounts to “homosexual activists shaking down rural taxpayers for 35 grand."

"It's a shame that the school district capitulated, because their capitulation in the face of the homosexual agenda in the end is going to mean that every high school in America is going to have to let transvestites in full drag attend their senior proms," he said. 

By not engaging the court battle, said Fischer, the district "compromised the ability of every high school in America to defend natural norms of sexual expression."

Fischer expressed frustration that Otoswmbada school district turned down expert pro bono legal service, and instead hired an attorney "who did nothing more than negotiate the legal terms of their surrender."

"[By choosing] to navigate their way out of this crisis, they have put every other high school in America in jeopardy," he said. "They were not thinking of the implications for their capitulation for every high school student in America."

Since her case hit the national headlines, McMillen has enjoyed several perks, including at least one $30,000 scholarship from Tonic.com, an invitation to a White House celebration hosted by President Obama, and an invitation to act as marshal of New York City's Pride March last month.

Following the decision, McMillen issued a message thanking her supporters. "I think it's great that there's that many people out there that understand the difference between wrong and right," said McMillen in a video statement published by the ACLU, noting in a written statement that she hopes the decision "means that in the future students at my school will be treated fairly."

However, despite McMillen's satisfaction, Fischer says the district's decision will do nothing but hurt the teen. "They have done Constance no favors by giving in to her demands, because they are assisting her in accepting a lifestyle that is destructive.”

Fischer blamed advocates of the radical homosexual agenda for manipulating an impressionable teenager to advance their agenda. Pro-family leaders have frequently denounced homosexualist leaders for making use of children and teenagers as easy targets for recruiting campaign messengers.

"This illustrates how evil advances in America: It advances because kindhearted, goodhearted people refuse to stand up against evil and stare it down; instead they capitulate, they concede, they give in," he said.

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

School District Pays $35K to Teen over Same-Sex Prom Date Ban
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jul/10072011.html

White House Fetes Lesbian Banned from Cross-Dressing at Prom
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10062211.html

10-Year-Old Boy Used as Grand Marshal of Arkansas Homosexual Fest
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10062511.html

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[topher]

She won her lawsuit for not making the Prom a homosexual affair.

She wanted to wear a tuxedo to her Prom. Maybe she should have opted out of her senior year for a sex change operation...

[Graybeard58]

The queers are destroying another institution, the high school prom. How many parents will simply keep their kids home? How many schools will decide to do away with the prom? All because queers want to “get in the face” of normal people.

[Graybeard58]

If a kid came to my high school prom dressed in drag he would have gotten the s*** kicked out of him. Not saying that's right.....just sayin'.

'Course I'm old as the hills.

[freekitty]

I think it is high time to look into the legal high jinx between the homosexual community and the legal world.

Legal seems to be the only way the fools can do anything.

[Fast Moving Angel]

What I want to know is, what about the rights of all the girls who had gym class the same time as the lesbian? If I were any of those girls, I’d sue to have her removed because I sure the heck wouldn’t want her looking at me.

[massmike]

If a kid came to my high school prom dressed in drag he would have gotten the s*** kicked out of him.

We called that "locker-room justice"!

[Lou Budvis]

Not many are going to like this, but I don’t think a public school can legally justify barring gay couples from the prom. There isn’t a sufficient basis of harm to deny them from an activity that’s put on a public institution.

[Pining_4_TX]

You have hit on the real problem - public schools. As long as government is involved in education, there will be constant fights over who controls them.

Privatize all education and give poor parents vouchers so they can choose the school they want for their children.

Problem solved.

Not only that, but we might finally have some real progress and innovation in education instead of having kids march lockstep for 12 years trapped in a moribund institution. If transportation had been controlled by government all these years, we would still be riding in horse-drawn buggies.

[Doulos1]

Good, then the conservative kids in school should
come to the prom in black face. No harm in that either.

[La Lydia]

She wanted to bring a girl as her date.

Schools can simply not have proms. Groups of kids and their parents can arrange private parties and invite whom they choose. Or schools can have proms, the gays and lesbians and transgendered and whatever other kind freaks can attend and gross each other out; everybody else can go to private parties. Yet another American cultural institution the homosexuals are well on their way to ruining.

[Hacklehead]

Perverts keep pushing, we keep backing up.

[Pollster1]

Solution: a parents’ group, “Class of 2011 Prom Boosters” puts on the prom, officially independent of the school, and then dissolves, with someone who is judgment-proof nominally in charge. Who are the sleazy lawyers and the perverts going to sue? The next year, an entirely different group, perhaps “Class of 2012 Prom Boosters”, does the same. If they are going to be sleazy and underhanded, it’s appropriate for us to evade their predatory practices.

[Hacklehead]

“If a kid came to my high school prom dressed in drag he would have gotten the s*** kicked out of him. Not saying that’s right.....just sayin’.”

That kind of treatment served as a “cultural immune system” which protected society from weirdos and nutjobs. Thanks to unwarrented “tolerance” our country has been taken over by oddballs and freaks.

[Julia H.]

Prom should be a heterosexual-only event.

After all, everyone knows heterosexual teen couples NEVER do anything inappropriate at or after prom. And they always leave plenty of room for Jesus when they dance.

I’m not a fan of labeling any and all opposition to the homosexual political agenda “bigotry,” but refusing to let two kids of the same sex go to a party together IS discrimination. What’s next? Turning one member of a gay couple away at the door if the other one is there? Breaking up two straight friends going stag?

Schools should stick to teaching facts, not indoctrinating kids with ANY view about homosexuality, pro- or anti-.

[Julia H.]

Exactly.

I have a serious problem with showing kids it’s okay to outlaw other people’s personal lifestyle choices because you disagree with them. The true “conservative” approach to homosexuality is speaking freely about the dangers of immoral behavior and reserving the right not to tolerate it on one’s private property, but not making rules about what other people can and can’t do with their own lives.

[Julia H.]

What I want to know is, what about the rights of all the girls who had gym class the same time as the lesbian? If I were any of those girls, I’d sue to have her removed because I sure the heck wouldn’t want her looking at me.

So what do you propose? Making lesbian teenage girls change in front of the boys? Excluding them from physical education? I hope you see the absurdity in what you're suggesting.

[little jeremiah]

placemark.

[little jeremiah]

There is no such thing as “values free” schools. Either one world view will be taught, or another.

And homosexual activists will never give up their desire to change the world into one that “celebrates” aka “forces” the homosexual world view onto everyone, so if the other side - those who want the traditional aka “real” moral world view to be the framework of teaching doesn’t fight back, the homosexual activitst world view will be standard.

Anyone who has 2 brain cells to play with knows this.

[tlb]

>>> Constance McMillen Case Has Put Every U.S. High School 'in Jeopardy': AFA After all, what could be more destructive to higher education then a girl in a tuxedo. It's a lot worse then gang fights and illiteracy. Burn the witch!

[BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL]

Another argument for home-schooling. Get your kids out of public schools.