Itawamba County Schools in Mississippi have a policy which states that all prom dates must be of the opposite sex. Constance McMillan a Lesbian Senior is now challenging that. McMillan wanted to bring her girlfriend to the prom, instead of denying the request Itawamba County Schools simply cancelled the prom. As you might imagine, the ACLU has filed suit on behalf of Constance McMillan.
The ACLU had given the school system until Wednesday to reinstate the prom, they’ve refused and the lawsuit goes on. Constance McMillan chose to fight against the ban on same sex dates at the prom; who knew the school board wouldn’t have the stomach to fight the fight. Amazingly they simply cancelled the prom, disappointing not only Constance McMillan but every other student who was slated to go.
In this day and time the school board in Itawamba County Mississippi had to realize they weren’t going to get away with a draconian policy stating what type of date a person could bring to the prom. Whatever your morals and standards you must be realistic. Had the school system simply allowed Constance McMillan’s Lesbian date to attend with her they would have avoided a mountain of legal trouble that they are now embroiled in; not to mention the bad press.
The school board indicated that they chose to cancel the prom because of the “distraction” that the Constance McMillan situation was becoming. They stated that they were taking into account the education, safety, and well being of all the students. Constance McMillan disagrees:
“All I want is the same chance to enjoy my prom night like any other student. But my school would rather hurt all the students than treat everyone fairly,” “This isn’t just about me and my rights anymore — now I’m fighting for the opportunity of all the students at my school to have our prom.”
You just know that the Constance McMillan Lesbian High School prom problem has school boards all over the country searching their policies with a fine tooth comb, probably making changes where necessary. Nobody, especially a school board wants to find themselves in the crosshairs of the ACLU over an issue like this. This is a fight the school board will not win.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
that is just plain silly.
most men cannot dance anyway,
so why deny lesbians?
March 11th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Good for you Constance. Always be true to yourself.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
What a pathetic response from the school board. Instead of admitting we have a problematic policy, let’s just cancel the whole thing altogether.
(Of course, to me the words “canceled prom” would have been more exciting than “snow day” back in high school.)
March 11th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
“(Of course, to me the words “canceled prom” would have been more exciting than “snow day” back in high school.)” rhayader
gee what a surprise …
and next you will be telling me lindsay lohan has substance abuse problems
March 11th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
most men cannot dance anyway
So true! And women dance together anyway. What’s the big deal?
March 11th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
“(Of course, to me the words “canceled prom” would have been more exciting than “snow day” back in high school.
Not half as exciting a ” furlough fridays ”
jeez, we get three a month here in Hi.
Thats three days each month that we either have to hire baby sitters, day care, loose a day at work… whatever.
Our teachers deserve to be paid well, far and above any politician. But whats up with the unions leading these very important aspects to our society into being treated and lead into being nothing more than thuggish union cash grabbers ?
March 11th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Beth you Cougar,
Why is it that women dance together anyway? It just proves my unscientific theory that all women are teases.
March 11th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
yeah Shannon, very unscientific.
I think women dance together simply because they know they can do it without half as much ridicule as if two men started a Tango.
Sure, from a heathonistic male approach its teasing, exciting subconscious images of me being in the middle.
But its just so much prettier to watch two females, graceful and delicate than two guys awkward, bearded and clumsely trying to well…
Know what I mean ?
March 11th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
So what? That’s their prerrogative!
You do what ever you want to do some where else!
Kudos to the school board!
March 11th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Hey Eli…
You hit it on the nose…
“You do what ever you want to do some where else!’
Take your gay expositions where they are wanted
March 11th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Hey micky…
You see dumb lesbian. First of all I am not gay. Second of all I am defending the school board. You people sicken me!!!!!!!!!!!
March 11th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Maybe I am not as progressive as the rest of the crowd, but this is difficult for me to understand. I am so conflicted with the issue of gay rights. I want equallity for all, but I feel like this is being shoved in my face at every turn, and I find it confusing and annoying at times. It is too bad that the students will be disappointed, can they move the prom to another local? or take a student vote and let the majority rule.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
“You see dumb lesbian.”
Married 15 years with no homosexual desires, or tendencies.
How you pulled “lesbian” outchera$$ is left up to you and your friends imagination.
” First of all I am not gay.”
Who said you were ?
” Second of all I am defending the school board.”
So am I.
Im just saying that if what you’re doing bothers everyone so much you might want to take it to a forum where you’re more invited., welcome and accepted.
“You people sicken me!!!!!!!!!!!”
pull your prejudgemental head out of your a$$, stop being so freaking hypersensative and you’d be able to realize that theres people like me who could give sht what you do with your genitals and lifestyle.
I work with alot of GLTBs
Dance your butts off, butr dont b*tch when you come across people who have a hard time watching it.
You are supposedly on the side ot acceptance and tolerance… right ?
Peace baby
March 11th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
@Claire: I would really like to know WHAT exactly is being shoved in your face… The fact that an 18 year old, a child, wants to live the same quality life as straight people in America? The fact that she has made it to the end of high school and then she is essentially told that she is inadequate and unequal? The fact that the school is basically breeding hatred toward her by cancelling prom all together? The fact that she is a strong young woman that will not be told to be silent? If you believe in equality for all, you should do some reading and weigh the situations that LGBT people have to deal with…simply because of the way we were born…then add the pressures and trials of life (in general) onto that. Then maybe you can see why we want to be free of fighting for our basic rights…why we want to just live a happy life… Our time is short enough on this planet…we don’t need the extra BS. Thank you.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Claire, yes.
I agree that we are being succombed to “I’m gay, in your face, and you and your family have to accept us at what you see and if you take it any other way you’re a homophobic far right nut”
Nuff of this “I’m gay, I’m a victim BS already.
Just stop cramming your lifestyle down our throats.
I mean really, the bottom line is this.
Certain genitals were meant to work with the others a certain way.
Any deviation from that deserves attention, but not special rights
March 11th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
I would really like to know WHAT exactly is being shoved in your face”
Well, two girls dancing with each other at a crowd of at least a hundred will more than likely end up in your face, if not your kids
March 11th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Well be thankful that your straight and “normal” kids don’t have fists and slurs thrown in their faces…like many, many gay students. I understand where you are coming from, but I would like to know the detrimental effects of your children seeing a couple of the same gender dance together? The world will not implode, nor will their lives… Just like my life doesn’t implode when I see straight people dancing together.
I’m asking for honesty here…do you really believe that you childrens lives would be changed by seeing a same sex couple dance?
March 11th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
of course not Cody.
I encourage kids seeing boys dance with boys, girls dancing with girls. Its really harmless in the big picture.
I’ve done alot of clubbing, seen all kinds of acts. But lets ask what impressional minds might be introduced to.
Thats all.
i remember the dances our school held in the 60s. Everyone was too embarrased to dance with anyone. So the girls ended up dancing with each other just so they could dance.
For christ sake they just wanted to dance, thats all.
But today its not a release like it was in my time, its a determination to impose a sexual lifestye that is something we may or may not want our kids to be subjected to.
Its not just the innocent bodily exchange of expressions it used to be
March 11th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Seriously, doesn’t it all depend on how hot she is? Nobody, but nobody wants to watch a butch girl dancing especially on a day that is so memorable to our graduating seniors.
Cody, you are living 20 years ago. Gay people don’t get beat up on campus anymore. This is 2010.
March 11th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Eh, MCCain
You might want think a little more about what is “Hotness”
Theres some seriously hot butches out there.
Sorry to say, but theres been some pretty attractive muff divers that have broken my heart.
lets not be so judgemental over a percived image that could actually get a rise out of you/us
March 12th, 2010 at 12:31 am
“Why is it that women dance together anyway? ”
because most men look like idiots dancing
March 12th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Micky, this “you/us” rise idea is really super creepy. You stick to you and I’ll stick to me, ain’t no us at 2am. And no, there are no seriously hot butches. Hot requires lipstick, geez.
March 12th, 2010 at 2:32 am
All I know is that I just got back from Vegas and everyone was dancing with everyone. Loved it. Why worry about who is dancing with who. The important thing is that you dance. That’s all that matters.
March 12th, 2010 at 6:26 am
gee what a surprise …
Come on now, High School Prom is the most melodramatic, forced, cliched, painful waste of time I can think of. It’s like a root canal without the nitrous.
March 12th, 2010 at 7:30 am
She is also suing for not being able to wear a tux. Good for her. I wore a tux to my Junior prom, and I am straight. I wore it as a symbol for my gay friends and loved ones. I am from a very small town and no one had ever done anything like it before, but no one cancelled prom JUST because of me. I was actually supported for it. My date (who was gay and my best friend) and I wore matching tuxes, and it was fantastic. Our school just asked me if I was going to be wearing “formal wear.”
Does it get much more formal than a tux??
March 12th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Micky, this “you/us” rise idea is really super creepy. You stick to you and I’ll stick to me, ain’t no us at 2am. And no, there are no seriously hot butches. Hot requires lipstick, geez.”
nah, its not creepy unless two guys arent willing to admit that two hot chicks dancing with each other hasnt given certaim the occasio/opportunity to “rise” to the situation.
And hey, I’ve got news for you my friend. There are some pretty hot butches out there wearing lipstick, fishnets, stilletos that would break your heart once you find out that they’re not into the boy thing.
I think you’re associating the word “butch” with an image more that of Rosie after a bad night with no make up.
I’ve had girl freinds in the topless dance business and can tell that some of the most beautiful women out there, are “butches”
“Hot requires lipstick”
Is about as narrow minded as it gets.
So in other words (not sticking to just you or me or anyone else listening in at 2am which according to my time zone is 10:00pm)
what you’re saying is that a certain amount of dyed petroleum product arouns and/or on a wmans lips defines “hotness”?
Gimme a break guy, lighten up.
Face it… theres been some very attractive women that us men have seen dancing together that aroused us only to find out later that we were not their preference.
Aint nothing creepy about 2 guys watching two chicks and cocuring between themselves that they’ll never get any of that action.
March 12th, 2010 at 8:14 am
chicks dancing with chicks…
BFD
March 12th, 2010 at 8:40 am
I agree that the school board took the chicken’s way out. Instead of taking a stand on what they thought was right, they just canceled the prom.
On the other issue, MCCain, you are dead wrong. There are still beatings at schools due to the fact that a person was gay. To the point that hate crime laws have been used to prosecute the students. The issue is one that is still on the front burner through out the US. Equal rights for every American, not just those with the “correct” sexual preference. While I do not want the “in your face, this is my life style, deal with it” attitude I do think that everyone has the right to their life style as long as it is not imposed/forced on anyone else. Wait a minute, isn’t that what the heterosexuals have been doing to the gay community for years???
March 12th, 2010 at 10:16 am
I am so proud of this young lady for standing up for herself!!!! Good for her. It’s so sad that Adults cant lead by example and teach our children to accept people for who they are and what they believe in!!!
March 12th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Row:
“On the other issue, MCCain, you are dead wrong. There are still beatings at schools due to the fact that a person was gay.”
This is absolutely true.
As a staunch right winger whos got an attitude towards gays or minorities claiming special rights, hate crime legislation whatever is a step aside from the fact that these people are unfairly identified hunted down and treated very wrong !
March 12th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Sorry.
But no gay couple dancing at my sons prom is going to fck up his life. I give him and whatever audience more credit than many of the ignorant backwards “folks” do
March 12th, 2010 at 10:53 am
I’m all for equal rights, and I think there is plenty of room for improvement in the legal treatment of homosexuals. But the federal hate crime stuff really scares me.
Not only does it violate the very idea of equal protection under the law, but it opens the door far too wide for double jeopardy and other prosecutorial abuses. No matter how well-intentioned, hate crime legislation grants the government power it should not be given. Unintended negative consequences cannot be avoided with that sort of arrangement.
Visiting violence upon another citizen is a crime in every state and at the federal level, no matter what the motivation. The despicable thugs who murdered Matthew Shephard are rotting in jail like they should be because of these long-standing laws. Let’s keep enforcing them instead of trying to pass redundant laws that remove important limits on government prosecutorial power.
March 12th, 2010 at 11:05 am
The gay issue aside, I believe it should be the perogative of the local school board to set the standards for it’s students.
Nobody told Constance that she couldn’t attend the prom. She could have just as easily gone stag instead of insisting on this in your face moment. Her rights have not been denied.
Exactly where can a school board draw a line? When Bubba shows up with his favorite farm animal?
March 12th, 2010 at 11:39 am
The gay issue aside, I believe it should be the perogative of the local school board to set the standards for it’s students.
That’s fair enough as far as it goes, but as a public institution the school has a legal obligation to avoid discriminatory practices. If this were a private school, I’d be in complete agreement. But this is something different.
Unless they want to prohibit students from bringing dates to the prom, they really have no right to prohibit homosexual students specifically from doing something they allow heterosexuals to do.
March 12th, 2010 at 11:46 am
And there’s the catch 22.
They are not prohibiting her from doing what heterosexuals can do and I can presume that the heterosexuals are also prohibited from bringing same sex dates.
See, no discrimination.
March 12th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Come on man, that’s a petty loophole and you know it. They have no more right to ban the public display of homosexual relationships than they do to ban the public display of heterosexual relationships.
March 12th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
That brings us back to Bubba and his favorite farm animal.
At what point is it discriminatory to ban dysfunctional behavior?
March 12th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
That’s a fair question to ask, but I think that any romantic relationship that is considered legal should be allowed in school. Let the law define a legal relationship, then let the public schools acquiesce to the legal definition.
So unless we legalize zoosexuality or pedophelia, I don’t think your slippery slope argument really holds much water.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Well Rhay, beastiality, as well as homosexuality, is legal in many western European countries. The way things are going in this country I can see you and I having the farm animal debate in the not too distant future.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
“The gay issue aside, I believe it should be the perogative of the local school board to set the standards for it’s students.”
What ? the standards are that only those of the opposite sex can dance with each other.
effing ridiculous.
C’mon, let the kids enjoy themselves without all this PC crap hangin o0vger there heads
March 12th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
over ?
March 12th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
C’mon, let the kids enjoy themselves without all this PC crap hangin o0vger there heads
Agreed. By making an issue of it, we sexualize it more than the kids ever did in the first place.
Well Rhay, beastiality, as well as homosexuality, is legal in many western European countries. The way things are going in this country I can see you and I having the farm animal debate in the not too distant future.
First of all, there’s a current push in Europe (France, The Netherlands, etc) to prohibit zoosexuality, so I’m not sure the trend is going in the direction you indicated. Besides, this is the US — too much cultural resistance here. And hey, if by some chance it were legalized by a democratic process, yeah I’d support maintaining those established rights for all citizens including school children.
Without a legal distinction, public schools should not be allowed to make a policy distinction. Simple as that.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
It’s not about dancing Micky, you’re over simplifying it.
I believe that it’s up to the local school board to decide what the rules will be. I’ve seen rules prohibiting certain types of dress and banning certain types of music. Is everything open to a discrimination lawsuit?
It’s not up to the Gay Movement, the ACLU, or the federal government to decide what works in each individual town or at any given dance.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
I believe that it’s up to the local school board to decide what the rules will be.
Privatize the school system, and I’ll agree with you. Until then, the government should indeed be required to play by its own rules.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
This is why I believe the Dept. of Education should be shut down and school policy should be returned to the states and municipalities.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Amen brother. By the way, did you see the Dept. of Ed. is soliciting bids for 27 Remington Shotguns?
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=cb68cf9f3fa2fe18a83d1c3dee0039b2&tab=core&_cview=08c
Haha.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Yeah, I saw that. I believe the IRS just made a similar purchse not too long ago. Makes you wonder what’s going on.
March 12th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Flymkonk;
“Well Rhay, beastiality, as well as homosexuality, is legal in many western European countries. The way things are going in this country I can see you and I having the farm animal debate in the not too distant future.”
You mean the kind of debate over who gets the step ladder ot the queer Panda face down on the barn floor ?
March 12th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Yeah Rhay.
The whole “hate” or definition that labels what is hate gets pretty ridiculous at some points.
If I killed a black man because I hate blacks doesnt take away from the fact that you just killed a human being, regardless of your feelings based on his appearance or what he means to you its still murder and putting it in some other category that actually seems to minimize the crime by re-labeling it is bullsht
March 12th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
“High School Prom is the most melodramatic, forced, cliched, painful waste of time I can think of.”
only for those who cannot get a date …
March 12th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Everybody is way over-thinking this. It’s just a social event with a bunch of teenagers. Good grief – get over it. Everybody get a life. Let them all go, have fun, grown-ups worry about your grown-up stuff. Can’t anybody be happy anymore without worrying about what everybody else is doing and trying to make ‘em all j-u-s-t l-i-k-e y-o-u ? And I’m a 49 year old straight woman, just living my own life. They’ll all grow up soon enough and make whatever adjustment are needed to be successful.
March 12th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Yeah Mona. Thanks for the breath of sanity.
Its a once in a lifetime deal. They dance, party like kids, get their ya yas off dancing with each other, girls with girls that may be gay or not, so what?
Next day they’ll return their cheesy blue rented tux ,probably brag about the instance under the bleachers, yuk it up over two girls who probably danced together because most of the guys were too dorky to even ask.
Lisabs got another point.
Prom…bfd.
March 12th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
God bless the school board. Canceling the prom is the right thing to do. Kids don’t have a constitution “right” to a prom anyway, it is not part of any education curriculum that I know of. The ACLU has no legal leg to stand on, so IF they win, it will because of someone’s opinion, NOT because of constitutional law.
March 12th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
I think I’m a pretty open minded person, but I can see why highschool’s or people in general discriminate gays/lesbian/homo. 1 it tempts other highschoolers to try out homosexuality and it gives the impression that the school is for it.
Pluss, homosexual’s have generaly more than one mate(some straight people do too) and really honestly is that a healthy lifestyle. Some gay’s are gay and they don’t want to be, I beleive homosexuality is a struggle and problem for some people. Everybody goes threw obstacles that they have to conquer.
Its not natural being “gay”, your not born “gay”. God made woman for man & man for woman! You can just tell by how man and woman connect pysicaly and emotionaly.
For people who are gay, I am against your lifestyle but I wont hate you and shun you/ make fun of etc…
when i was younger I have made fun of gay’s and I’m sorry.
I know some of you guys will agree with me and some you guys wont and I accept that.
March 12th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I’m against people being gay altogether. I wont make fun of them and just be hateful towards them, I’ll still treat them like a human being and respect them.
peace
March 13th, 2010 at 12:02 am
” think I’m a pretty open minded person, but I can see why highschool’s or people in general discriminate gays/lesbian/homo. 1 it tempts other highschoolers to try out homosexuality and it gives the impression that the school is for it.”
Right, because I see two homosexual men engaging in oral sex I’m gonna go give it a whirl just to see what its like.
If I see two girls dancing at a prom I’m going to make sure my daughters are wearing blindfolds because by them seeing such a thing might cause them to turn out gay one day.
What century was your idiot rump born in ?
March 13th, 2010 at 12:11 am
“Its not natural being “gay”, your not born “gay”. God made woman for man & man for woman! You can just tell by how man and woman connect pysicaly and emotionaly.”
Yeah, that clears things up pretty well if your thought complex hangs around a ten year olds mentallity.
Your not born gay?
Oh, I understand. You “BECAME” gay because you watched two people being gay at some point in your/there lives… right?
I got news for you. People are born with their sexual preferences attached whether you like it or not. Yes, people ar born gay and usually dont a grip on it or accept it til they’re a little more mature and less inhibited by what prejudgemental narrow minded a$$holes like you tend to throw at them
March 13th, 2010 at 12:45 am
“I’m against people being gay altogether. I wont make fun of them and just be hateful towards them, I’ll still treat them like a human being and respect them.”
So let me try to understand this.
You’re against them “altogether” but you’re going to treat them like eveyone else ?
Respect them etc…
But theres still not that function going on in the back of your head that says
“this is not right” ?
Dont try to bullsht any of us into thinking anything other than that these people trouble you.
Being gay (not me)as long as I’ve known many many gays in my life considering the professions i’ve been involved in is not a “Choice” as so many of you ignoramaces make it out to be.
It is a condition/birth effect/hormonal imbalance/drive/personal bodily impact… call it whatever you want, that someone is born with as is…..
As a guy on the right, being a Christian, hard core conservative I have to say that is one area the right really needs to clean its act up upon.
The homophobic narrow minded appraoch to these people needs a better approach from us or were going to continue looking like the redneck country listening to squirrel eating dipshts the other side keeps trying to makes us out to be.
Now, I’m gonna sit me down, light up a Marlboro and play me some Red Hot Chili Peppers so loud the cops will be here in ten minutes while the two gorgeous dykes in black leather dance as if it were their first prom
March 13th, 2010 at 6:41 am
It’s just amazing that there are still so many ignorant hillbilly’s ( Eli). have your prom at the hotel…it will be a million times better, and the ingnoramouses won’t be there! Good job!
March 13th, 2010 at 6:45 am
actually reality is…you ARE born gay or straight…oh yea remember don’t eat shrimp…it’s a sin! what a bunch of dumb a_ses
March 13th, 2010 at 9:36 am
yeah well Rich.
Gayness aside theres something to be said for following certain religiousc aspects in ones life.
I can see how you’re dismayed by constrict religion, shellfish, split hoof etc….
But I fail to see what you’re getting at by suggesting the event take place at a hotel or wherever.
As if its going to make difference whether or not two gay or straight women end up dancing with each other and if holding the event at a Holiday inn or any other location would really determine the dynamics.
Cant have same sex dates at the prom ?
I hate the ACLU but on this one I’ll back them.
As a free people we should be able to determine the company we keep at any event no matter how abrasive some might find it to their culture/religion/upbringing
Hillbillies ?
Yuk yuk
March 15th, 2010 at 10:30 am
I’m frightened that the Pit bull desires a particular kind of operator…these dogs, regardless of how ’supportive’ nevertheless have teeth, are still animals with no moral principles and once they DO bite, won’t allow go. As in all creatures…some tend to be more suseptable to instinctual behavior and time and time once again, this breed tends to perform just that.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Walsh
Where you at ?
Right blog, right place ?
Pitt bulls, teeth….
WTF ?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:25 am
I hate the ACLU
I never really understood the animosity most on the right have for the ACLU. The organization is actually very consistent in its application of constitutional law, and will stick up for so-called “conservative” causes just as quickly as so-called “liberal” causes.
Is the idea of an unwavering defense of our constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties really that scary to neo-cons?
March 15th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
I love it when people say “special rights” what “special rights” are you talking about exactly? They’re just looking for the same rights as everyone else.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
yeah well Rhayader, you might want to take into consideration some of the cases the ACLU has approached or decided to take into considering defending
Theres not too much doubt after looking at their history that they are a left leaning organization that actually was going to at one time defend NAMBLA.
After much peer preasure and public response they backed off and decided going forward might not be such a good idea.
The rights they seem to lok out for most of the time seem to be the rights that those on the left are hunting for…
just sayin
March 15th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
“I love it when people say “special rights” what “special rights” are you talking about exactly? They’re just looking for the same rights as everyone else.”
Really ? Ya think so ?
Theres so many of you people out there screaming for “special rights” all because you’ve got nothing more than a freaking hangnail its not even funny
March 16th, 2010 at 7:06 am
The school needs to know that this bigoted behavior is unacceptable. Let them know how you feel.
Teresa McNeece — superintendent
tmcneece@itawamba.k12.ms.us
phone (662)862-2159 Ext. 14
Principal Trae Wiygul
twiygul@itawamba.k12.ms.us
(662)862-3104
11900 Highway 25 S
Fulton, Mississippi 38843
March 16th, 2010 at 7:16 am
yeah well Rhayader, you might want to take into consideration some of the cases the ACLU has approached or decided to take into considering defending
Do you have any specific examples in mind besides a NAMBLA case that they didn’t even participate in?
Theres not too much doubt after looking at their history that they are a left leaning organization
I think it’s more likely that, since their inception, the majority of suppression of civil liberties has come from “the right”. That’s not exactly a problem with the ACLU.
The rights they seem to lok out for most of the time seem to be the rights that those on the left are hunting for…
Maybe because the people on the left are the only ones who even pretend to care about constitutional civil liberties any more?
Just sayin.
March 17th, 2010 at 10:38 am
The only thing that frustrates me is knowing what would have happened had the school board said “o.k.” … they still would have had to deal with parents who chose to have a freak-fit about that, and this story would still be in the news. I guess that’s what frustrates me more than anything … no matter what ends up happening here, right now, we are still at a place where a girl wanting to go to her prom with another girl is this divisive and newsworthy. I’d really rather just say, “cool, do what you want to do, dance with who you want to dance with, and then tomorrow morning, after the dancing is over, let’s work together to help out kids who are being neglected/abused or who don’t have access to education.” Truthfully, that’s my main desire for equality … so we can all just shut up about this minutia crap of who sleeps with who and what genitals go where and instead make a difference in the world to those who are starving, physically sick, etc.