But why do gay people need to make such a big show about it. Nothing would have happened if she would just have showed up at the prom. but to preannounce and hype it up prior to the prom is suspect.
But why do gay people need to make such a big show about it. --------------- It's not just gays, it's everything. Short side is "It's all about me". "I'm gay". "So, what's up with those Yankees?" "You're not listening" "I heard you. You're gay. Go for it!!!! So, what's up with those Yankees?" People need validation. I fresh out of stamps of approval. In the meantime you fucked up my prom. "How's that make you feel?" "I'm gay an nobody cares." You got it. "I'm straight and nobody cares."
The evil plan hypothesis fails Occam's test and is nothing but cynicism. On the one hand we have the problem of democracy. The article states that the community would likely support the school's decision. Of course, a community might largely agree to reinstitute human slavery, too, and we're not going there, thanks to the law. On the other hand, we have the problem of the slippery slope. Normalize, equalize, the gay and lesbian life, and what might be up for acceptance next? Of course, the girl's desired course violates two taboos, really, the one in question, lesbianism, and the other, women wearing "men's" clothing. There are a fair number of people around still that are not really comfortable, to say the least, about either one of those.
All could have been avoided if the girl just showed up at prom with her date, dressed anyway she liked. But no, we have to get the ACLU involved which will stop at nothing to make a mockery of the legal system. Add to that a school system which spends more time on social experimentation than education, and then doesn't know how to handle the most simple of situations. Then there's the girl, who, like too many gay people are more interested in pushing a political agenda rather than simply practicing their personal preference. Put a bunch of loons together and this is the result. Nice job!
I disagree. In general, adults just show up, kids ask permission. Maybe she should have done what you say, just show up, but she is a kid.
we have to get the ACLU involved ---------------------- I wonder who called the ACLU. As far as I know, the ACLU doesn't go trolling, I'm pretty sure you need a well presented situation to pass ACLU muster before they get involved.
I'd be interested in what the law actually is in this situation. The ACLU and other liberal pressure groups have an endless supply of lawyers eager to bully small school boards and other local government organizations which typically lack the money to spend millions fighting some BS lawsuit. So typically they just buckle under, ceding the rights of the majority inch by inch. I'm pretty sure there is no constitutional right to attend a school prom with your lesbian date. Typically, school boards are granted wide discretion in maintaining order in school activities.
That is correct. If the girl wants to go to the prom dressed like a penguin, I say let her. No harm done.
Listen I was in high school in Mississippi 15 years ago. There were many times that gays went to the prom together. The only time I remember it being a problem was when one lesbian girl wore a tux. They did not let her in. Not because she was lesbian. Because she didn't follow the dress code. I guess it is too different a society for you to understand. The South has no problem with homosexuals. They have a problem with people thinking they deserve special treatment because they are different. All the other girls had to wear a dress. I can assure you had this girl just worn a dress there would never have been a problem. It happens all the time girls and guys that do not have dates buy tickets with two names on them. Both male or female. Occam be damned this WAS a set up for a lawsuit. Filed today by the way. Or maybe it was yesterday. Here is a story about a similar event. THEY EMBRACED DURING THE Pledge of Allegiance, held hands through the smoked-duck-and-mango appetizer and nuzzled as waiters served filet mignon and macadamia-encrusted salmon. They strutted and vamped, hugged and whispered. And by the time the plates were cleared at Washington's annual White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 26, Ellen DeGeneres and her lover, Anne Heche, had turned a but-toned-down banquet for some 2,500 into a capital coming-out party. Not since the British arrived with torches in 1814 have out-of-towners brought such heat to a White House-related function. "Oh! I thought this was all for you," Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan joked to his new bride, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, as photographers, who had lenses only for DeGeneres, 39, and Heche, 27, jockeyed for position. "They lit up the room," says openly gay lobbyist Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign. But the display made other guests fume: A "freak show," the wife of a Cabinet member reportedly said. It certainly was a spectacle. The moment DeGeneres and Heche arrived at the Washington Hilton in a limo, groups of autograph-hunting teenagers chased them down the stairs to the security checkpoint. To escape the crowd, the couple took refuge in a ladies room, providing a photo op for a female photographer who had followed them. Once safely seated at table 119 with the other guests of Vanity Fair, including George Clooney and Bianca Jagger, DeGeneres, wearing a blue pantsuit, and Heche, in a clingy turquoise mini-dress, chattered and chain-smoked. They paid intermittent attention to speeches by Bill Clinton (he touched on the fund-raising controversy by joking that Chelsea's departure for college will make another White House bedroom available) and comic Jon Stewart (he called DeGeneres's revelations "an elaborate ruse to keep Larry King from hitting on her"). Asked if she liked the comedy, DeGeneres said, "Yeah, it's good. It's funny." As for her and Heche's behavior, not everyone was amused. "I had the impression they were putting on some kind of act," said a Washington columnist. "But this kind of thing can backfire in Washington." And elsewhere. After spending the night at the posh Jefferson Hotel, the women returned to Hollywood, where the jury is still out on how their relationship will affect their careers. As for DeGeneres and Heche, they've had their say. "She's done her press and has no comment," says Heche's publicist Simon Halls. "I do know that she had fun, though." People magazine.