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On top of that, they've removed the name and contact info for the person the policy says to contact. No surprise there. A bunch of redneck teabagging wingnuts, no doubt.
I think that both girls could have found male dates, and then switched partners at the prom (if there's two gay girls, must be at least two gay guys in their class too).
Instead of making a big deal out of it getting the news involved.
Just more pro-homo-propaganda going around because of it.
Or they could have been honest like they were. What are we trying to teach our children, if not honestly dealing with the rest of the world?
They must have signs on the streets that say "No Gays Allowed" or how would you even know that???????
Maybe because a high number of people in the area express hostile attitudes towards gays?
If you live in an area for any lengthy period of time and require street signs to figure out the political inclinations and biases of the people around you, you probably can't read a street sign anyways.
Actually, the name is apt. The lengths of sophistry you have to go to demonstrates it pretty well. The Taliban insists that their Holy Book lays down the rules that everybody - not just the Talib, but every human being - are morally obliged to live by. And they enforce these rules with the means at their disposal. Your crowd?
Bzzzzt! Wrong, try again. If a homosexual organization had tried to stop heteorsexuals from having a dance, you might have had basis to establish a moral equivalence. That's not happening. A homosexual couple is simply asking for equal rights. Not special, just equal. And those who worship (by) their personal Holy Book are disturbed that it may be outside their comfort zone.
Most Christians do not deserve the moniker. But those who insist that everybody should live by the rules of their religion - they sure do.
One side - the gay couple - is simply asking to be tolerated. The other side has decided to deny that. And to hammer it home through a display of such power as they have.
The petty mindset of the Christian fundamentalist distilled to its base component: "You're different, we won't abide that, and while we can't change you, we can sure make your life less pleasant."
You'll lose this fight. Just as your Christian Fundamentalist brethren lost the fight against interracial marriage. Or desegregation. Or evolution.
If you say it is OK to have this gay couple at the prom you are laying a moral ground that you stand for.
If you say you do not want this couple at the prom then you lay a morale groundwork. So to say one side is a the taliban for following their moral compass then so must the other side
So no matter what you lay down your own morale groundwork
If the school district says there will be no prom that is their right. It did not just end the prom for the gay couple but for everyone
They are already have a place...it's called the privacy of their home.
In a somewhat annotated version (the full post is numbered 145)...
Once again, these girls, and a lot of others like them, are citizens of this country...they are asking NOT to be made SPECIAL, but EQUAL...and I don't have any sort of problem with that...
What I DO have a problem of sorts with, is your line about 'the privacy of their home'...how I read this is, you are aligning yourself with those that, as I stated in my post, are trying to sit on some high horse and tell somebody else how to live and who/how to love...
EHHHHHHHT!! Wrong answer...unless you are Almighty God posting on City-Data in some earthly form, then you don't have the right to tell others how to live their lives, no matter how much they make you want to threaten to take your ball and go home, because 'they ain't playin' fair'...sorry for your luck
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