I’m usually the snarky one who’s not fazed by wingnut nonsense, but this is disgusting:
If you’re a high school in Mississippi and you really don’t want your students bringing same-sex dates to the prom, what are you to do?
Well, you could try to ban them from coming to the prom, although that’s illegal. Or, if you’re the Itawamba Agricultural High School, you can cancel the prom altogether and punish everyone. That’s right. No gay couples. No straight couples. No prom.
Isn’t it amazing the depths folks will go in order to continue homophobic policies? That this school wanted to stop a lesbian student from bringing a same-sex date to the prom was outrageous enough. But to cancel the entire prom just to take aim at this student is punishing every single person in the school. So much for school’s acting in the best interests of their students.
The school is called Itawamba Agricultural High School. So I have two questions for the Itawamba County School Board:
1. Exactly how many self-loathing closet cases are on your board? Because this is extreme, even for Mississippi.
2. What’s wrong, Mississippi? Were you worried that Virginia was out-wingnutting you this week, and you had to do something grotesque to prove that you’re the dumbest, most unreconstructed bigots in the Union?
Later in the above quoted piece, we hear from the lesbian student:
The student at the heart of this case is a senior named Constance McMillen. Reached by the Clarion Ledger, McMillen said she was absolutely disgusted that her school would try to punish her by canceling the prom for everyone.
“Oh, my God. That’s really messed up because the message they are sending is that if they have to let gay people go to prom that they are not going to have one,” she said. “A bunch of kids at school are really going to hate me for this, so in a way it’ really retaliation.”
Oh, but we’re supposed to believe that the Wingnut Right really cares about bullying of LGBT students? No, as Timothy Kincaid pointed out last year, some of their leading “pro-family” voices indeed view bullying LGBT students as a Christian duty.
They are the true sick people. Not happy, healthy LGBT people. We’re fine.
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Man, this is just sick. I bet they got the idea from Catholic Charities when they got rid of benefits for ALL employees to avoid having to pay for the spouses of GLBT employees. How sick and mean-spirited can one be to deny high school kids their prom just because of the homophobes’ fear of GLBT.
Comment by Merlyn — March 10, 2010 @ 8:35 pm
Is this the girl who was not allowed to take her year book picture in a tux? I can’t remember her name. Or was it the same school?
Comment by Melissa — March 10, 2010 @ 8:49 pm
It wasn’t until 2007 that Miss. had racially integrated proms. Why would we expect them to allow same-sex couples a mere three years later?
Comment by Buffy — March 10, 2010 @ 8:59 pm
The students should just work on arranging their prom to be held elsewhere.
And I agree – it has to be a closet case throwing the hissy fit. Only a closeted homo would threaten to cancel the entire thing, and you know what the plan is: to turn the students against the girl, maybe a violent attack as well.
A miserable old faggot who’ll probably die of bunghole disease, like Jim West of Spokane.
Comment by Scott — March 10, 2010 @ 9:34 pm
This breaks my heart.
Comment by Maggy — March 10, 2010 @ 9:49 pm
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First of all those who oppose the lifestyle do not hate gays just the lifestyle. There are parents who dont want their kids exposed to certain things. Second, just because you dont agree with the lifestyle isnt implying fear. A poor girl was bullied into suicide in Massachesuttes but doesnt get nowhere the attention this does.
Comment by A.Roddy — April 6, 2010 @ 1:29 am
Actually, there is no such thing, A.Roddy, as the “gay lifestyle.” I agree that there are some people who “oppose homosexuality” who are in denial about the reality of sexuality, and who have been taught that they are being loving by “opposing the lifestyle.” They have been taught incorrectly, because if a person is gay, it is no more or less significant than any other immutable characteristic like hair color. What you’re saying is the exact same thing as “those who oppose being red-headed don’t hate redheads, just the red-headed lifestyle.”
And in fact, the girl in Massachusetts has gotten lots of attention. I don’t know what sources you read, but I’ve been keeping up with it, and it’s an awful story, and it shines a light on just how much more we need to do to protect ALL kids from bullying in school.
Comment by Evan Hurst — April 6, 2010 @ 9:51 am