if she can't sue and if she can't go, can she still take ellen up on her offer and have a bigger better prom than that private one she can't go to ?

The school board and town are feeling pressure? Good. Keep it coming.

In a way, I almost feel sorry for Allstate, since they probably had no idea the guy was a homophobe and merely got splattered when the shit hit the fan, but they're an insurance company, so I don't feel THAT bad for them.

@2 & 4: Luckily, we live in the United States of America, where we believe in the pursuit of happiness and liberty and justice for all -- not just for all straight people or all white people or even liberals. It just seems that way because liberals are more likely to embrace an inclusive ideology rather than conservatives.

You want to keep people from the American dream, you will be chastised. If you don't like it, move back to where you came from (hint - odds are, that isn't America).

Sadly, Allstate can't/won't fire the bastard, as he'd sue them for it, and he'd probably win, since he was not doing these things while on duty. And #2's a big blubbering baby for saying that he will lose his job. What they can do is pass him over for raises, promotions, or anything nice that they don't HAVE to give him.

@4: Alleged, how are you able to read these articles when you have your head so far up your ass? Constance had a reason to be allowed to attend the prom and bring a date, and the school dumped on everyone. It's like canceling a block party so you don't have to invite the black neighbors. If what the school did is acceptable, what about the example I gave? Hm?
Oh yes, that's right; you're an ignorant bigot who spins fata morganas about how Teh Gheys are oppressing him so he can feel justified in hating them. Go slide down a barbed-wire fence.

Dudes: Nobody is saying the private prom is legally required to invite anyone. The ACLU is suing public officials for shutting down a public event to keep out a gay student.

"Constance and her gay-activist friends will not be attending," he said. "They can go have their own prom because we certainly do not want any of them there."

I hope that junior never leaves the limits of his backwater town. It's a big world out here: there are many different kinds of people, cultures and behaviors to encounter and quite frankly someone who throws a hissy fit when they see someone who isn't a carbon copy of themselves isn't very well equipped to function as as an adult amongst the rest of us.

If their goal was to keep Baby in his playpen for the rest of his natural life, the teachers and administrators of Itawamba Agricultural have certainly succeeded.

Photo essay of interest for SLOGgers

Notorious Teacher Sex Scandals

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-501143_162-5…

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Gosh we hope that becky never leaves the limits of her cozy liberal cocoon. It's a big world out here: there are many different kinds of people, cultures and behaviors to encounter.
Some of them even don't agree with the Liberal Homosexual Agenda.

Yeah, we know-
Shocking!

And quite frankly someone like becky who throws a hissy fit when they see someone who isn't a carbon copy of themselves isn't very well equipped to function as as an adult amongst the rest of us.

becky, you may want to stay out of the 45 states that outlaw homosexual marriage, and especially the 30 states that have explicitly voted to outlaw it in their State Constitutions, often by margins of 75% or more.

Those people may not be carbon copies of you...

yay for troll saturday !

my my
do we have to register to post now?

because the Homosexual Brownshirt Jackboot ACLU Thug Agenda doesn't hold up well to public scrutiny?

because disagreeing with the Liberal Homosexual Agenda isn't "respectful"?

because the facts burn our Liberal ears?

The school board hasn't denied all the kids a dance.
The vast majority of those kids don't want to have a prom if the terms are dictated by the ACLU.

Those poor kids haven't yet learned the rules of the road in the Qunited States of Gaymerica.
They don't realize that what they want in their school and community and state don't matter anymore.
They don't realize that they are not entitled to their own beliefs about what is moral sexual behavior.
They don't realize that the ACLU, Holy Priesthood of the Secular Humanist Religion, get to tell the what they can and cannot believe.

Poor backwards Mississippi.

So much they have to learn.....

Not only have the courts found that First Amendment rights to freedom of expression are protected even for students, but they have also found that attempts to circumvent those rights by doing what this school board has done (ie: cancelling the prom to supposedly avoid the problem of having to accommodate McMillen) are illegal. The private prom may well go ahead, but there will be repercussions for the school if they refuse to reinstate the school prom.

So, in the very same high school where in their current social studies and history classes, they are teaching their student's about the First Amendment, yet they are going against the first amendment of freedom of expression....what a GREAT school system (sarcasm).

I'm no lawyer, but it appears to me that the school district is colluding with the private groups who are organizing this private, invitation-only prom. Has the school district put itself in any additional legal jeopardy by suggesting that a private prom be organized? (Sorry if this has been covered before, but I haven't read all of the comments on the many Constance-related stories.)

Gay people go to public dances all the time. The only objection they had is *knowing* that she's gay. That's what they found offensive. It's all well and fine that she attended quietly.... but now their knowledge, not her character, is what drives their prejudice.

Once you realize that fundamental (and ugly) disconnect, the homophobic argument falls to pieces here.

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And in the Qunited States of Gaymerica local governments are REQUIRED to put on a government sponsored prom so homosexual students can 'express' themselves!

yay... REGISTERED troll saturday !

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And in the very same high school the students are learning first hand that in the Qunited States of Gaymerica exercising your First Amendment rights to express unpopular beliefs about sexual behavior; beliefs held by 90% of your community but which run afoul of the Liberal Homosexual Agenda; will get you harassed from your job and result in Jackboot Lesbian Thug ACLU lawyers telling your senior class what it can and can't do with it's own prom

What a GREAT country!

It's not that governments are required to sponsor proms so that gay students can express themselves, it's that public bodies may not deny people their First Amendment rights by preventing them from having equal access. Don't get all incredulous on me: it's your system.

@13

Like most of the world, I don't live in the United States. I've seen Americans of the Anonymous-type travel overseas. It's not a pretty sight. If they aren't bursting into tears when they realize that they won't be able to live on chain-restaurant burgers they wet their pants at the thought of using foreign words to buy a train ticket.

The tolerant type of Americans are rightly embarrassed by such hysteria, as most of your fellow citizens seem to be here. But if it helps you vent your panic about teh gayz here, go ahead...

Hey troll, your alleged facts that will burn our ears, what are these?

You make no sense. You're angry at people with whom you don't agree with, and then accuse them on not being able to get along w/ others.

I see no facts, nor logic, in your writing.

And to set you straight, the school board is a publicly-funded institution. Therefore, it should provide their services (and activities) to everyone who paid into it. Constance's family have paid their taxes like everyone else, they should also have access to the activities like everyone else. See how that works?

It's not an 'agenda,' it's being fair & legal. If people like yourself don't want to be in the same room as a homosexual, you can refuse the invitation. But everyone, bigot or straight or homosexual, must be invited.

The only 'agenda' I see is the Bigot Agenda to exclude people they think aren't human.

@19: Yes, the school district isn't helping its case with this little two-step to try and avoid liability. There is some precedent, such as Smith v. Allwright (the last of the White Primary Cases), for the proposition that state action pushing a state function off to a private party doesn't escape constitutional scrutiny.

Awe, look at the little puppytrollman getting all angry. It's okay lil' buddy! I know, words are hard. but read up, try again!

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Bigots like to divide the world into the "wrong" kind of people, and the "right" kind of people (people just like them...)

The (only) difference between redneck Mississippi bigots and smug hip liberal Costal/Canadian Socialist bigots is the position they advocate.

I found school board memeber Teresa McNeece´s profile on Facebook and sent her the following e-mail (via facebook) on March 13th.

"Hi Teresa, we´ve never met. My name is Rob and I live in a small town in Northern Mexico. I was so saddened to see the news about Constance not being allowed to go to her high school prom. When I was a kid growing up in Arizona in the mid 1980s, being gay was pretty much forbidden. I new I was gay, but I couldn´t tell my parents or my teachers about it. My senior year in high school I had developed a crush on another boy in my school. Although he and I were never intimate with each other, we both knew that our feelings for one another were more than just being buddies. When the time came for the prom, we both dreamed about how wonderful it would be if we got to go together just like any other young couple in love. Well, promnight came and I watched as all my friends rented limos and tuxes, bought corsages, and enjoyed the evening, holding hands under a cardboard moon and dancing to romantic songs. I cried and cried that night. Why did God make me into this freak? I hated myself for being gay. The following day, I was horrified to learn that my special friend had hung himself in his room wearing a tuxedo. I hope you never have to experience that kind of pain. These young girls just want to go to the prom like any other kids their age. It´s such a simple request, but I hope you don´t underestimate how important it can be to them. I know you work hard at your job, and that you are a loving and caring parent. I hope that you will look inside your heart and see the situation from that perspective. To love another person is one of the greatest gifts given to us by God. Please don´t deny these young people the chance to share that gift with their friends on prom night. God bless you."

The following day, Facebook sent me the following message:

"Hello,

You posted an item that violated our Terms of Use, and this item has been removed. Among other things, content that is hateful, threatening, or obscene is not allowed, nor is content that attacks an individual or group. Continued misuse of Facebook's features could result in your account being disabled.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact us at warning@facebook.com from your login email address.

The Facebook Team"

I´ve asked Facebook to tell me specify which "post" was removed and to tell me specifically how it violated the terms of use. Their only response was an automated e-mail that said they are investigating and reminded me to read the terms of use again.

Mr. McDonald's letter definitely wasn't a threat, but Dan, honestly, do you think Mr. Hood didn't receive any threats at all from the people you sent after him?

Poor period troll. The world is so big and scary.

By not having a prom the board is treating everyone equally.
Everyone is equally free not to come.

But the homosexuals pitch a tantrum and sue- because in the Qunited States of Gaymerica you don't have the right not to attend Constance's Big Homo ComingOut Bash...
Sure, there are plenty of chances for Constance to express herself at lavish free proms in New Orleans or New York or in her home town if her supportive Dad wants to organize one but it isn't about a prom- it's about rubbing everyone who disagrees' noses in a Lesbian Prom.

The hicks at Constance's school get it.
And said 'no thank you'.
And Dan and the ACLU just can't stand it.

"Look at Me!"
"Love Me!"
"hello?...anybody there?....."

@29

Not a Canadian either. Maybe your fellow citizens can chip in to buy you a map, so you can extend your knowledge of geography to include places other than South Africa and Such-As-And-The-Iraq.

"Bigots like to divide the world into the "wrong" kind of people, and the "right" kind of people (people just like them...)"

Everyone may divide up the world this way. What people cannot do is discriminate based on this division. I don't care for you or for the junior at the Itawamba Agricultural, but I would never support your exclusion at a public event. You would be welcome to come, and I would patiently bear your panicked shrieks as you realized that all were as received and respected as you regardless of race, cultural, sexuality or political/religious opinion.

By not having a prom the board is treating everyone equally. Everyone is equally free not to come.

The board might have been able to make that claim if they had never organized a prom in the first place and then cancelled it when they found out that a female student wanted to attend with a female date and wearing a tuxedo. But since that's exactly what they did do, they have no basis on which to make that claim and they are violating McMillen's First Amendment rights. I'm not sure what exactly you're having difficulty with; it's fairly simple.

Period Troll has his period? That might explain the panic attacks. He should hold a hot-water bottle to his tum.

Like @1, I hope Constance can take up an offer for a better and all-inclusive prom. Maybe one day the Itawamba Agricultural junior will look back and wish he'd gone along.

OK troll, we get it. You hate gay people. Yawn.

Dingo, you are right. It IS that simple! But then again, so is the troll....

Topela Furniture Mart's Facebook Page is here:

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#16 Said:

The school board hasn't denied all the kids a dance. The vast majority of those kids don't want to have a prom if the terms are dictated by the [NAACP]. Those poor kids haven't yet learned the rules of the road in the [N]united States of [Negro]merica.

Poor backwards Mississippi...

Looks like the Itawumba school board is still anti-integration. Only the target has changed, the hate is still the same.

Fill in the swimming pool!

Anyone who goes to an alternate prom that excludes Constance should be ashamed of themselves. If they don't have the grace and sense to be ashamed of themselves, I am willing to bet that their children will be ashamed of them, in a couple decades.

My heart goes out, not only to Constance, but to the good people who just happen to live in Mississippi, which already has a bad reputation, and have to be tarred with the ignorance and bigotry of these people.

And I do have to respectfully disagree with James Keith, attorney to attorney. It wasn't a no-win situation. The School Board and Constance could both have won, and the community as well. All that was required was for the School District to do the right thing. Sure, the School District members couldn't both "win" and hold on to their unAmerican view that their prejudices ought to trump a student's right to equal treatment, but oh well. You know, buddy, when my client is wrong and likely to lose in Court and also suffer serious extra-legal consequences, I kinda let 'em know. It's kinda my duty. All advocate and no counselor makes for some bad client situations.

I am sure that Gretna Louisiana is celebrating that some other southern town has now taken over the "most backward hateful place in America" title.

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gosh, I'm sorry-
I didn't realize we were playing
'guess where becky is...'
maybe it would be more helpful if my fellow citizens chip in to buy me a Ouija Board or a Magic Eight Ball.

No one has a problem with Constance,
she was welcome at the prom. The Principal made that clear.

But there are rules about behaviors that have been in place even before Constance saw the light and had nothing to do with Constance's Big Coming Out! but now Constance and her 350,000 close personal friends come along wanting to change the rules and the kids think; you know, this isn't really fun anymore- (shame on them for thinking their prom should be fun the selfish little pricks)- and they decide they don't want a school prom.

Because, selfish little pricks that they are, they didn't realize that the sole purpose of their tiny prom was for Dan and the ACLU to force them to accept homosexual behavior as protected political expression, they just thought it was a chance to have fun.

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Social gatherings always have rules governing behavior.
It's a mark of civilization.

The rules Constance objects to have been in place and enforced for years.

But Constance is special....

"But there are rules about behaviors that have been in place even before Constance saw the light and had nothing to do with Constance's Big Coming Out! "

Would those be the rules that kept the 'Colored' boys from dancing with the white girls? Or maybe being excluded altogether? Because that sure was FUN! And real fair, too!

Face it, you're a bigot and proud of it! And I don't blame you! It's probably the only thing you've succeeded at in your life! (Unless you count being an annoying prick, of course)

The rules prohibiting female students from wearing traditionally male attire and any student from taking a date of their own sex to the prom are a violation of their First Amendment rights. What are you having trouble understanding?

All of it, Dingo. All of it.

Wow, prom at a furniture mart. What a magical night to get knocked up in the back of your boyfriend's pickup while buzzed on contraband Natty Ice.

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If the overwhelming majority of the students, voters and citizens object to changing the rules under which the prom has been held it is a no-win.

The school board serves the community, not the facebook homo lynch mob. There is no Constitutional requirement that they hold a prom, counselor. They serve their community by canceling a social function that has been rendered disagreeable to the majority of it's target participants.
Understandable, responsible and legal.
Their action earns them abuse from elements outside the community. In their capacity as servants to the community they bear the abuse and harm. They sacrificed personal comfort for the community.

It is a dance.

It is not a political rally.

"... ought to trump a student's right to equal treatment,..."

That's the rub, isn't it.

All they wanted to do was treat Constance just like every other student has been treated for years.
Same old rules.
For Everybody-

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High Schools have dress codes that govern what students can wear.
Sometimes very stringent,
sometimes even requiring uniforms.
Courts have upheld them.
I'm having trouble seeing why you keep repeating a statement that has no bearing on the topic at hand.

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High Schools also have rules governing how students can dance.
Dance is behavior.
Students who violate the rules are asked to leave.
Courts are OK with that, too.
The Principal; respectfully, according to Constance; reminded her of that.
Constance wanted special treatment.
Constance wanted the rules that apply to everyone else to not apply to her.
Constance didn't want the rules applied equally.

I remember when I went to my prom, I was having a lot of fun until some girl showed up....holding hands with ANOTHER girl! Why, don't they know that's against the rules!?

And then they started dancing together! SLOW dancing! Unfortunately, the evil Liberal Homo Agenda had found itself to my school board (in Texas, no less!) and they had actually allowed this filth! Even though they appeared to just want to dance and have fun like everyone else, I and I alone knew that they were personally there to rub their big homo coming-out party in my face.

I mean, what do they think this is, the twenty-first century? Should we really let gays touch each other and hold hands and even dance together, in sight of the straight people? Should they even be allowed into the same rooms as us? Aren't there some completely arbitrary and draconian rules that were put in place around the same time that coloreds were kept separate from whites and left-handed kids were considered unnatural that we could call up to stop this kind of jackbooted gay invasion of prom?

I'm glad period guy understands it. He seems to be the only one.

50: if you're having trouble with such a very simple concept and with the relevance to this issue of the First Amendment, then you need more help than can be offered to you here and I suggest you seek it elsewhere.

LOL hadakang, that was awesome. Maybe you can recommend an ophthalmologist to reconstruct the nerves in Period Troll's eyes when they are burnt out by the sight of someone breaking The Inalterable Rules Of Dancing (which have been fixed and unchanged since the beginning of time, and are exactly the same in every culture).

I don't know of any medical procedure which would repair the injury to his delicate sensibilities.

oh man-
the "Civil Rights" envy is so thick you can cut it with a knife...
Homosexuals so so much want to compare their demands that everyone else has to accept their behavior to the legitimate courageous struggle for black civil rights.
They keep trying to compare homosexual behavior to skin color but that dog just won't hunt.
It won't even scratch fleas...

Where is their Rosa Parks?
They have that little Georgia gal who was yesterday's Homo Hero flavor of the month-
on the cover of the Advocate,
"grownups" like Dan gushing about how she was their hero-
a few months later shacking up with some yokel in a trailer popping out babies...
(it's going to be rich when Constance takes her $35,000 and buys a doublewide and elopes with the high school junior poster in the article who Constance actually has a secret crush on and it turns out this whole farce is just an attention getting ploy...)

Where is their MLK?
All they have is Dan pissing himself daily...

poor poor Homosexuals-

We Shall OverCum.....

I see the anonymous troll was able to remove his head from his ass long enough to grab a couple of breaths of fresh air, vomit up a couple of moronic responses on SLOG then quickly replant his head firmly up his ass again.

Good show.

56 is that all you got?

To the douche bag troll spewing garbage about rules of behavior, it is my understanding that those "rules" of women not wearing male attire and taking a date of the opposite sex came about AFTER Constance approached them about attending the prom.

They weren't in place BEFORE the issue, you dumbass.

Cry me a fucking river, 57.

Since there's a private prom for the bigots, it'd probably be tempting to have a 'private' prom for the tolerant kids at the school... I'd be willing to wager that Constance's party be a lot better, and as a result, a good portion of kids would move from one space to another over the course of the night.

But I guess if it takes good amenities to make people open their minds to partying with gays, just go with it.

Best comments on the Tupelo Furniture Market Facebook page:

"Public Relations Disaster," n., hosting a "no gays allowed" segregated prom to try get a schoolboad off the hook for discriminating against their gay students it what's become a national embarrassment.

Enjoy your newfound fame...

How disgusting and yet how telling that your business is supporting segregation....
...and it's going to be viral information ALL over the internet......
SHAME ON YOU for being bigots.

Thank you for making contacting you by telephone and e-mail so gosh darned easy and convenient!

Only love will conquer hatred , All of Mexico is watching

Dingo, your comments (and the comments of others) on this as a First Amendment issue reminded me of something I was sent several years ago when sanctioned prayer in school was being debated. It went something like, "We teachers aren't just expected to teach. We also have to be counselors, social workers, chaperones, etc. We have to do all this and you tell us we CAN'T PRAY?"

What the author missed is that no one was being prevented from praying. The issue was that school-sponsored prayer is inappropriate.

Ms. McMillen isn't asking other students to dance with same-sex partners themselves. She's not even asking them accept her as she is. In other words she's not telling anyone else they can't pray. She simply asked if she could bring who she wants and wear what she wants to the prom. If that's "disruptive", as the school administrators claim, that would seem to be the problem of the administrators and some of the students--not Ms. McMillen's.

Wow, ten-to-one odds that Period Troll also hates the sp**s, the n****rs, the ki**s, and the g**ks, as well as the f*gs. I also bet that he's an uneducated Southern white man. Fucking ignorant hicks. You realize that your ranting about all the "HomoLiberal agenda" is sounding just like the kind of anti-Semitic paranoia that fed into the Holocaust?

You, sir, are a lesser creature than humanity; not by who you were born, but by who you have made yourself.

That's exactly right, and courts have also consistently ruled that "disruption" of that nature isn't germane to arguments of First Amendment rights, in other words, fears that some people might be upset or react negatively aren't legitimate grounds to deny McMillen her right to wear what she wants and date who she wants.

Venomlash, I was going to take exception to your characterization of Period Troll as a Southern man, but then it occurred to me that, if only in this story, there is some justification for that assumption.

As I've said before, you'll find ignorance and bigotry almost everywhere, but that doesn't excuse it anywhere.

Of course, it's likely there will be gay students at the furniture mart prom, who are either still in the closet or still in the dark. Just something fun to think about.

Spokane Guy, it is fun to think about, but while, hopefully, some of those closeted students may be inspired by her courage and the national attention she's getting, sadly some may look at the treatment closer to home and think, "That's it, I'm never coming out."

Anyone know if folks are going to mount a protest at the straights-only "Night Under The Armoires" Senior prom? Picketers and such? If not they absolutely should, and I for one would try to somehow get my ass down to Mississippi to join in if they did.

Oooo. A furniture mart. Sounds like my idea of a fun prom! I'd rather go to one that Ellen hosted >.>

This isn't going to make it go away. I don't think that they're aware of this.

"I'm really calling for massive retaliation"

"we have to come down hard on this school"

"We're going to be in your fucking face principal Wygold and superintendent McNeece"

- dan savage's podcast

I just hope that people like ellen and dan along with their followers just have the decency to leave the kids at their new prom be and keep away from harassing them like they have done to the school board members to the point of wanting to see them out on the streets with their families.

#68, I am absolutely in love with the name "Night Under The Armoires". Are there any other folks who'd like to title the straights-only prom? I would vote for anyone who could include the term "china hutch".

Why could Constance not just show up with her girlfriend? The problem was in the asking. If she felt she had a right to be there, all she had to do was wear her suit and bring her lady. Instead, she raised a fuss and now there is a prom to which she and anyone who has ever openly associated with are not invited. Of course her classmates are excluding her at this point. They probably could not care less what she and her girlfriend do on a daily basis. They became exclusionary when their prom got cancelled.

The Difference Between Liberals And Conservatives:

When Liberals hold a prom all the kids get invites

When Conservatives hold a prom only the "right" kids get invites.

Comte @ 74 - you couldn't have said it any better.

Bravo.

Sorry, meant Comte @ 73.

Why could Constance not just show up with her girlfriend? The problem was in the asking. If she felt she had a right to be there, all she had to do was wear her suit and bring her lady.

She's done a pretty good job of explaining this already.

This thread makes me want to listen to a certain debut album by K.M.D.

"your mother likes to visit the old churches."

@ Venomlash, why a southerner? Don't you think Washington, even Seattle, is capable of producing someone like that? Because believe me, even in 80% liberal Seattle there are home-grown homophobes and other hard right jokers.

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Because Venom is bigoted against Southerners.
Venom sits around speculating who the troll hates but all he does is reveal his own prejudice, ignorance and bigotry.

'Venom' suits him...

"I also bet that he's an uneducated Southern white man. Fucking ignorant hicks."

second verse, same as the first:

"I also bet that he's an uneducated Southern black man. Fucking ignorant niggers."

It's all just different flavors of the same ice cream.
Venom imagines in others what actually rages in his own heart.

The only difference between Venom and the Fucking Ignorant Hicks he sees behind every bush are the targets of the hate, ignorance and prejudice.

He is to be pitied.

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Where is the drama in that?
The appearances on 'Ellen'?
The $35,000?
Of course she could have just showed up at the prom.
It isn't about a prom, and never has been.

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Of course there will be.
And no one will care.
Because homosexuals are welcome.
They just have to abide the same rules as everyone else.

Equal treatment is all the school board and community ever wanted.

@76

I disagree. The notice stating that only heterosexual couples could attend came out after she felt the need to ask for permission. If she and her date had just showed up to the dance, they might have gone unnoticed as I am sure her classmates were already aware that she is a lesbian and would not have been surprised to she her hugged up with another girl. It is better to ask forgiveness than permission, even if the issue is one where permission should not be needed.

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Constance has patiently explained many times that the prom ticket price for a couple is less than twice the single price and kids would pair up with a friend to get two tickets cheaper and so the school made the rule about who you could bring as your 'date'.
And Constance also explained that the school really doesn't have a huge issue with girls in a Tux but boys dressing in girl's clothes would be considered very disruptive, and it obviously wouldn't be EQUAL treatment to not allow boys to dress like girls but allow girls to dress like boys.
As has also been patiently explained schools have rules for what dress is allowed and what behavior is acceptable, at dances and other school functions.
Behavior is not a First Amendment issue.
Everyday in America schools tell students the message on their shirt is disruptive and make them change or cover it.
Rebel flags, for example.
Courts repeatedly have ruled that dress codes are allowable and that preempting potential disruptive behavior by enforcing dress codes is allowed in schools.

@64 is simply wrong.
Repeatedly and ad nauseam.
Were his assertion true there could be no laws against hate speech.

At a prom, there will be straight couples that will slow dance, hug and kiss each other. Saying that a gay couple can not slow dance, hug or kiss each other isn't equal treatment. There is a word for that discrimination.

"period" you seem to believe it's ok to be homosexual, just not to ever dare expressing it public. Well guess what, we're here and we'll be just as expressive as straight people. Don't like it, don't watch.

At a prom there will be rules about what degree of touching and what kind of dancing behavior is allowed.
And couples, heterosexual or otherwise, that violate those rules will be asked to abide the rules or leave.
According to Constance her principal simply and respectfully reminded her of that.
She was not told that she could not dance with a girl.

84 There are rules that govern behavior in society. Rules that have existed for a long time and for good reason. Definition of marriage, for example. Homosexuals want to change a lot of the rules, but have not put forth convincing reasons why it is in the best interest of society to do so.

While we don't know where our dear friend "." is from, but we can thank "." for all those links of "Sweet Home Alabama". Great song, so fun to play on my Strat Man I miss her, had to leave her in Oregon, but in fairness the Martin is more soothing to listen to and I'm not playing for myself here in LA.

Take care all.

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It is an awesome song.
I wish my own state had one half as good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP0…

There are rules that govern behavior in society. Heterosexuals want to keep a lot of the rules the same, but have not put forth convincing reasons why it is in the best interest of society to do so.

See what I did there. :) You seem to think straight people have the right to tell gay people how they can and cannot act. Nope, you can't. You seem to think we'll abide by the rules created by bias and intolerance. No, we won't. Just like Rosa Parks won't move to the back of the bus, we will not play straight for your or anyone else's benefits.

As for the definition of marriage, it has changed. Women are no longer property, and it isn't purely an economic contract with babies attached. People can marry above or below their station as they see fit, as well as marrying those of a different race/ethnicity. Remember Romantic Love and marriage are very new concepts. Society has adapted and continued to grow.

The definition of marriage as between man and woman preceded Homosexual's recent infatuation with aping heterosexual institutions by millennia.

It is not straights telling homosexuals what marriage should be.
Elton John.
Larry Craig.
Roy Ashburn.
Ted Haggard....
Lot's of prominent homosexuals believe homosexual marriage is poor public policy.

You girls need to get on the same page...

Thank you! It's been a very long and rough day. That was a nice way to end it.

@90 None of those homosexuals have any credibilty. With the exception of Elton John. Those were closet cases who fought against what they were because they are self-loathing traitors. And you know what the punishment for treason is, don't you? So why would I listen to a traitor's position on anything at all? That's like taking American Revolution tactical advice from Benedict Arnold over George Washington.

Also note your phrasing: "poor public policy". I don't care what the "public" thinks. They don't influence my personal morality or behavior. Also, there is a saying from my childhood that we were taught very often. "What is popular is not always right, what is right is not always popular". Gay Marriage is a right, no matter how popular it is.

As for us girls, sorry you must be confused. I'm a man. I have a penis, and use it for gay buttsecks.

We don't care what the "public" thinks.
Not even 350,000 FaceBook freaks.
They don't influence our personal morality or behavior.
Especially not 350,000 FaceBook freaks.
Also, there is a saying from our childhood that we were taught very often.
"What is popular is not always right, what is right is not always popular".

So we'll not be having a homosexual prom.
Even though it is a popular trendy fashionable idea with the public.

Fuck your own butt with that penis.

Sincerly,

Mississippi

@78: You think I don't know that? Even on the North Side of Chicagoland, there are ignorant, prejudiced people of all varieties. I guessed Southerner simply because the South (and to some degree the West) tends to have a greater proportion of them.

@79: Stepping into the crocodile pit now, aren't you?
Perhaps I should mention that your racism analogy breaks down when you consider that those uneducated people I so dislike can be black, white, brown, tan, or just about any color you can reproduce with MS Paint, and my opinion of them will be the same regardless. Being an ignorant hick is not who you are born; it is who you choose to be, and to some degree how you are raised. And if I have a problem with Southerners, it's because, while there are many rational and good-hearted people in the South (such as a certain Gentleman), the South has been a hotbed of racism, anti-Semitism, and general hatred and intolerance since before any of us were even twinkles in our fathers' eyes.
And yes, venom does suit me just fine; I like to keep my nick consistent with my attitude. The difference between me and bass-ackward morons like you and the We-Hate-Fags Ignorance Patrol is that before I pass judgement or make an attack, I think to myself: "Is this person doing something genuinely wrong, or do they just happen to offend my delicate sensibilities?" And if it's the second one, well, I man up and deal with it. And if it's the first one, well, you better duck, because I'll take you down a few kilonotches. As demonstrated here:

@90: So evidently if there are homosexuals who oppose gay marriage (the vast majority of them closeted and self-loathing), that means that gay marriage is a bad idea. Let's take this philosophy to the extreme. Suppose Hitler had been part Jewish, as some rumors have suggested. Then would the fact that he, a self-loathing part-Jew, opposed letting the Jews exist mean that we MOTs should have been exterminated?
Also, let's hear about all these "lot's [sic] of prominent homosexuals". Tell us how many gay public figures oppose gay rights. Step right on into my parlor, you gnat.

94
Silly girl-
everybody know Hitler was a homosexual...

http://files.sharenator.com/gay_hitler_H…

@93: Your own personal morality and behavior is only personal as long as you don't try to impose your values on others; then it becomes public. (And since you types always say "well, what about the gays imposing their values on me?": if you are upset about the tolerance of people different from you, you must have been dropped on your head as a child.)

@95: You must be watching some really weird pornos.

Fuck your own butt with that penis.

Oh we do, we only have boyfriends to parade around in public with to mess with straight people. You know now the true gay agenda. Kudos to you.

Sigh.

The First Amendment of the Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law
. . . abridging the freedom of speech.” The school board have done precisely this by censoring McMillen’s peaceful expression of social and political viewpoints central to who she is.

The First Amendment protects expressive conduct. In Fricke v. Lynch, the court held that a male high school student’s desire to take a same-sex date to his prom contained significant protected expressive content. Similar expressions by high school students relating to their sexual orientation or support for gay rights likewise have been held to constitute speech protected by the First Amendment, and courts have upheld the rights of students to be openly gay at high school.

Wearing non-gender-conforming attire to the prom is First Amendment protected expressive activity. Courts have found that clothing amounts to protected speech because it can “symbolize ethnic heritage, religious beliefs, and political and social views,” and they have upheld students' rights to wear symbols of their beliefs.

Students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or
expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Courts have found that “School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school as well as out[side of school] are persons under our Constitution.”

In any case, the prom is an extra-curricular school function; courts have found that students' First Amendment rights extend to such functions. In Fricke v. Lynch, the court held that students have a First Amendment right to bring a same-sex date to the prom. By the way, although schools can in very narrow circumstances limit students' First Amendment rights to free expression because of legitimate concerns about significant disruption, courts have also found that this right of schools is greatly reduced at activities like proms, which are non-scholastic.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that “even reasonably forecast disruption is not per se justification for prior restraint or subsequent punishment of expression
afforded to students by the First Amendment.”

A First Amendment violation may not be avoided by closing down a public forum. Courts have consistently found that it is in the public interest to protect First Amendment liberties.

Any questions?

And by the way, Fricke v. Lynch, the case in which the court found that students have a First Amendment right to take a same-sex date to the prom, happened 30 YEARS ago in 1979. And yet students are still routinely being denied this right, and schools are routinely losing the subsequent lawsuits, which cite this case. When will people learn?

Why is it that when a man sticks his penis in another man's anus that's some sort of abomination, but when a a man sticks his penis in a woman's anus that's just normal behavior?