Queer acceptance legally enforced
We read:
"A school district in Mississippi has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The settlement comes after the ACLU sued the school district in Fulton, Mississippi, on behalf of Constance McMillen, a lesbian teen who was told by Itawamba Agricultural High School officials she and her girlfriend would be ejected if they attended the school-sponsored prom.”
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Sounds reasonable to me.
So, every student should now have a right to go to prom? What about all those who are not asked to prom, should they be able to sue the school? Even if you go stag it isn't the same experience is it?
If only I would have known about the money you can make by being offended back when I was in school. Home school is looking better and better for my kids.
The school district needs to get real in Mississippi, gays exist whether they like it or not, if they're gonna go to the prom they're supposed to bring a same-sex date.
This isn't the military, so don't ask don't tell doesn't apply here.
"So, every student should now have a right to go to prom?"
--Yes, every student who's part of the graduating class and who buys prom tickets has the right to go to the prom. It's a public school after all,
I tend to agree the school district over stepped their bounds but $35k seems a bit steep to me
$35k penalty was well deserved, and unfortunate. Originally when the prom was scheduled and the court ruled that the school had to allow the gay couple, the school then canceled the prom for "financial reasons". The school was penalized AFTER they canceled the prom. The school acted like jackasses, and the community paid for it. There goes $35k that could have been spent on education, instead it fed the egos of school board members.
Equality sure is a slow process in the US - started so well in 1776 but slavery didn't end till the 1860s, and a bit more equality for blacks in the 1960s. Women eventually got the vote in the 1920s and some more equality in the 1970s, when gays also started to get some, but still struggling with bigotry now we are even in 2010. Talk about gradual evolution!
The US is actually evolving much faster than the rest of the world. In most of Europe ethnicity is segregated by ghettos, slavery was only officially outlawed in Saudi Arabia in 1986, and still unofficially legal in most middle eastern countries. Asia has a huge slave trade.
Besides, the US is the MOST diverse country in the world. There are bound to be issues with assimilation and perceived equality.
Sure, if you are gay and go to a prom in Mississippi with a same sex date..hmmm..aclu will not protect you.
"Sure, if you are gay and go to a prom in Mississippi with a same sex date..hmmm..aclu will not protect you."
---What do you mean? It's because of the ACLU that gays will be allowed to bring same-sex dates to the prom.
You're not implying that if two gay high school kids go to the prom as a couple the entire school is gonna beat the crap out of them? It's 2010, not 1952.
Anonymous said...
"Home schooling is child abuse."
No, having liberal parents is child abuse.
Anon 12:53 said;
"Besides, the US is the MOST diverse country in the world. There are bound to be issues with assimilation and perceived equality."
Yes, especially when you take those "perceptions" of inequality into a court room. ($$$)
This decision, and the comments that followed, only add further evidence to my opinion that in the U.S. the lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
"In most of Europe ethnicity is segregated by ghettos" - you make it sound like an official policy redolent of the nazis. The ghetto segregation is self-selected, unless you are talking of refugee and asylum-seeker location when obviously that has to be done by the authorities, but at least refugees and asylum-seekers are being accepted.
listen 137 i am not making any accusations, i live in backwoods mississippi and am gay, and in the closet (NOT OUT OF FEAR, MY SEX LIFE IS PRIVATE) so i know how many people in mississippi think. Who would think that a major religion would behead people for adultery or hang teenage boys for just being accused of being gay in 2010, so get your head out ur ass and see what still goes on in 2010.
How typical of a conservative not to think of a retort first, but to steal a statement and flip it around.
"listen 137 i am not making any accusations, i live in backwoods mississippi and am gay, and in the closet (NOT OUT OF FEAR, MY SEX LIFE IS PRIVATE) so i know how many people in mississippi think."
---I'll tell you what, when heterosexuals stop wearing wedding rings, having wild bachelor parties, displaying pictures of their spouses at work, talking about their girlfriends/boyfriends with their coworkers and friends, then your argument about your sex life being private will be true. Until then, you're simply buying into the mentality that if you're not part of the majority you should hide.
My own personal opinion is that you shouldn't hide. Just buy a handgun, learn how to use it, get a conceal carry permit and then if anyone tries to beat you up, you know what to do.
"Who would think that a major religion would behead people for adultery or hang teenage boys for just being accused of being gay in 2010, so get your head out ur ass and see what still goes on in 2010."
---We're not talking about Islam or the arab world here, we're talking about Mississippi. Just like I don't like the food police telling me what I can eat, I don't want the sexuality police telling people who they can date.
i know people in mississippi that are just as ignorant as the religion of the perpetually stupid. backwoods mississippi is not new orleans where no one would care who you dated. Mississippi is part of the Bible belt and anything out of the ordinary would not be accepted. It would be for one's on saftey not to push things here, i dont, that is one reason i stay in the closet.
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