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The school can say "no more proms forever" and that basically clears any discrimination from the situation. Their INTENT may be not to let homosexuals go, and it's a sad, silly reason, but the result doesn't care. We don't need to figure out why.. that's up to the student body and community as a whole to address. Either get on board or just not put themselves in a position to have to deal with the controversy, and that's the path they took. You can't really push this kind of thing on people who aren't willing to accept it (you really can't even though you think you should be able to) so this is their only solution for now. Eventually new people will look at the situation and think "this is stupid" and it won't be a controversy anymore. It's sort of like people who don't want to rent a room to homosexuals or blacks or asians...one way around it is to not rent the room at all. You may not like that but you can't force them to rent a room just to advance the anti-discrimination position.
This is not a landlord but a public school which is a different entity and thus the same rules do not apply. A prom is a school sponsored activity. The school is not a private entity. The school board didn't create a permanent policy that would ban prom. The board banned prom this year because a gay student wanted to attend. Since the school selectively chose to ban this prom to prevent a gay student from attending, that is discrimination. The ACLU wouldn't spend the money and file a lawsuit on behalf of this student if the student lacked merit to file this lawsuit.
This is some of the most overblown garbage I have read about in a while!!! Yahoo! News has over 50k comments on it in the last 3 days!!!! This chick just wanted some mega attention and so did her family!!! She couldn't get a (male) date to the prom and so she took her spite out on the school!!! That and she thinks the whole Emo/Goth/Lesbian chic thing made her cool!!!!
If the school allowed the student to attend prom, none of this would have been publicized. It started with the school board not the student. The school board took a paternalistic approach and felt observing a gay student at prom was detrimental.
At the same time, I think the infamy and chastising would be worse known as the lesbians who got prom cancelled. Especially since no one really cares about what goes on during the prom (the after parties are what counts ). At my senior prom, I couldn't have cared less about a same sex couple.
One of these females wanted to wear a tux, so it isn't as innocent as you would have us believe. If they allow a female to wear a tux, they have to allow males to go in drag. She had a gay ax to grind and wanted to hi-jack her HS prom to promote her half-baked political ideology. They were right to cancel the prom. If the gay students want to have a gay prom, they can do so without disrupting everyone else's prom by holding it elsewhere.
One of these females wanted to wear a tux, so it isn't as innocent as you would have us believe. If they allow a female to wear a tux, they have to allow males to go in drag. She had a gay ax to grind and wanted to hi-jack her HS prom to promote her half-baked political ideology. They were right to cancel the prom. If the gay students want to have a gay prom, they can do so without disrupting everyone else's prom by holding it elsewhere.
Just more anti-gay prejudicial garbage. Gays are always to blame in some people's small minds.
One of these females wanted to wear a tux, so it isn't as innocent as you would have us believe. If they allow a female to wear a tux, they have to allow males to go in drag. She had a gay ax to grind and wanted to hi-jack her HS prom to promote her half-baked political ideology. They were right to cancel the prom. If the gay students want to have a gay prom, they can do so without disrupting everyone else's prom by holding it elsewhere.
You know what I don't get? Why is it that gay folks always want someone to accept them and their lifestyles? I'm straight and don't walk around asking folks to accept me...either you do, or you don't. It's just that simple...I'm still going to live my life the way I choose to regardless of what anyone else says/thinks?
One of these females wanted to wear a tux, so it isn't as innocent as you would have us believe. If they allow a female to wear a tux, they have to allow males to go in drag. She had a gay ax to grind and wanted to hi-jack her HS prom to promote her half-baked political ideology.
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You know what I don't get? Why is it that gay folks always want someone to accept them and their lifestyles? I'm straight and don't walk around asking folks to accept me...either you do, or you don't. It's just that simple...I'm still going to live my life the way I choose to regardless of what anyone else says/thinks?
You want what you do not have. You have acceptance already. Think about Ancient Greece there Gay was the establishment, there you were not accepted unless you were gay. There you would have craved acceptance for being straight.
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). At my senior prom, I couldn't have cared less about a same sex couple.
