Mississippi school district cancels prom after same-sex couple planned to attend.
Mississippi school district cancels prom after same-sex couple planned to attend.
A Mississippi school district has canceled this year’s prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School after the Mississippi ACLU urged school officials to allow a lesbian couple to attend. Administrators turned down requests from 18-year-old Constance McMillen and her girlfriend, another student at the school, who planned on wearing a tuxedo. The school cited “distractions to the educational process caused by recent events” as reason for canceling the event, suggesting that “a private group host an independent prom instead.” McMillen, however, said the district’s decision was “retaliation” for speaking out:
“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’s really retaliation.”
School officials told McMillen last month that she could not bring her sophomore girlfriend to the prom and could not wear a tuxedo. The school then circulated a memo prohibiting same-sex dates.
“I asked my teacher about it, and she said, ‘Well, you have to remember where you are,’” McMillen said.
In neighboring Alabama last year, the Franklin County School system in Russellville “reversed its policy prohibiting a lesbian student from attending a prom with her girlfriend.” In Utah, the Salt Lake City-based Utah Pride Center hosts a gay prom every year, but “Executive Director Valerie Larabee said districts have not enforced same-sex date prohibitions for years.” In Los Angeles United School District schools, same-sex couples are permitted to attend the prom, and one of these schools has even elected a gay male prom queen.
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Hoo boy, they’re gonna get letters about this. And we’re gonna get trolls.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:01 pm“distractions to the educational process” – or distractions from reality. I guess Mississippi lives by the credo that if it’s not discussed or acknowledged, it doesn’t exist.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:02 pmThe school district, in doing this, is promoting hatred & discrimination towards gays & lesbians. It’s probably exactly why they did it.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:03 pmMississippi school district cancels prom after same-sex couple planned to attend.
– - Teh Gay is contagious. Teh Gay, spreading their agenda in the heart of Dixie. Prom would have been fabulous!!
March 11th, 2010 at 2:05 pm18 year olds can join the military to maybe die for their country (unless they are openly gay).
18 year olds can legally marry (unless they are gay).
18 year olds can attend their HS prom (unless they are gay).
Hey! Let’s deny gays the right to smoke, drink, vote, drive a car, get a job, buy a house. Let’s just go all the way and die gays the right to live!!
/snark off
March 11th, 2010 at 2:05 pmGod forbid they have to make a stance. Cut and run. Cowards.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:09 pm@6. Is that such a bad thing? She probably would have. I know I’d rather look at a woman in a tux than a man any day.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:09 pm“I asked my teacher about it, and she said, ‘Well, you have to remember where you are,’” McMillen said.
You are surrounded by knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing neanderthal morons.
You know…conservatives.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:10 pmMore epic craziness in Jesusland…
Since when did opposition to homosexuality become the central core belief of Christianity?
It seems to have outpaced the Resurrection and the Second Coming.
It is the issue that excites the holy rollers like no other.
There really should be an evangelical habitat established somewhere in North America, to which we can deport all the holy roller crazies, and let the rest of us get on with living our lives.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:11 pmWhat’s a wamba?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:12 pmevangenital says:
There really should be an evangelical habitat established somewhere in North America, to which we can deport all the holy roller crazies, and let the rest of us get on with living our lives.
Or lock them up in cages, like a zoo. That way, normal (sane) people can poke them with sharp sticks.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:12 pm“I asked my teacher about it, and she said, ‘Well, you have to remember where you are,’” McMillen said.
And, it ain’t the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, now is it?
It is more like the land of the Christian Taliban and the home of the homophobic.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:13 pm“distractions to the educational process”
At the Prom? Can someone explain what the Prom has to do with the educational process? Do they take notes and worry about a test on dance techniques?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:13 pmWhat does anyone expect from a pit that still has a CSA emblem on their state flag?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:13 pm“I asked my teacher about it, and she said, ‘Well, you have to remember where you are,’” McMillen said.
Mississippi is the most religious state in the union. It’s also one of the poorest. Apparently God doesn’t love you as much as you love Him if you’re gay and want to attend a dance.
And kind of on-topic: And for all the tea parties and whining about government “socialism”, Mississippi is also the biggest federal sponge in the country. It receives $1.70-$2.00 in federal money for every dollar it pays in taxes.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:14 pmI know my last comment may have come off as shallow, but it was more a reflection on how goofy hillbillies look than at how this woman may look in a tux. I think that if she could show up all the guys, then more power to her.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:14 pmSomeone should have to justify this.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:15 pmThe recent proposed law calling for captial punishment for gays in Uganda is the handiwork of American evangelicals such as Rick Warren and Scott Lively.
This is what these “values” voters really want – the complete and utter extermination of gay men and women.
The whole concept of DNA “hardwiring” doesn’t seem to have occurred to these morons.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:16 pmRednecks fear teh gay.
It may expose their hidden urges.
Hate is a christian staple.
Holy rollers suck.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:18 pmExactly how much educating is taking place at prom?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:18 pmMaybe one of them should have dressed as a priest and the other as a little altar boy. Problem solved.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:19 pmdixie blood (sponsored by The Party Stop Stores) says:
March 11th, 2010 at 2:20 pmMaybe one of them should have dressed as a priest and the other as a little altar boy. Problem solved.
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Maybe bring a third friend who’s dressed as the pope wearing a strap-on over the dress.
All the local school board wants is the traditional prom, complete with abuse of alcohol and date rape.
What’s wrong with that?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:21 pmSo they think that cancelling Prom won’t disrupt the educational process of their school? The saddest and scariest part of this is the students who will blame the single couple for their loss of a long honored tradition rather than the frightened homophobes who actually made the decision.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:21 pmBizarro, those clowns hate Catholics almost as much as they hate gays, non-whites and Jews.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:23 pmSeems to me they educational process involves modelling fear and hatred and fostering student resentment and hostility
March 11th, 2010 at 2:24 pmGreat point lefty @23. Now there will be questions on if anyone already knew about these girls sexual orientation and if there are others etc, etc…..They’ll want to know if this was a “problem” for years, months or whatever and the school board will now be ground zero for every homophobic nutjob and for gay right activists.
They took the cowardly way out and will now be dragged over the coals for it.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:24 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
“Teach, your children well
March 11th, 2010 at 2:27 pmTheir father’s hell”
evangenital says:
March 11th, 2010 at 2:27 pmBizarro, those clowns hate Catholics almost as much as they hate gays, non-whites and Jews.
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Should we just stick with a Baptist priest slapping people in the face with a rubber fist while screaming about hellfire (and how Satan is really a giant rubber fist)?
Actually, there are lots of Catholics in the deep south. Hell we had fish-stick Fridays at public school back in the 1950’s and ’60’s
March 11th, 2010 at 2:27 pmThis is another form of the time-honored Southern tradition of “massive resistance.”
March 11th, 2010 at 2:27 pmMy hunch is they will back down based on the press this is already getting.wreckingcrew’s “propaganda” was Yahoo headline news since early this morning…
March 11th, 2010 at 2:28 pmAt the very least, the presence of same-sex couples at the prom would ensure that the music would be a lot better.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:29 pmlive in the world we’re in, not the one you so desperately crave.
reprobates.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:29 pmone student told her, “Thanks for ruining my senior year.”
Anyone whose senior year depends on going to the prom is probably too shallow and stupid to graduate anyway.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:31 pmBackward fundamentalists are the American taliban.
We should start referring to the pastors as mullahs.
When will they ever learn that the country cannot be moved backward — it is the nature of things to progress and the country is progressing (not fast enough, but it is on the track).
March 11th, 2010 at 2:31 pmOTOH, I remind myself that fundamentalists are not in tune with progress.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/dobson_and_focus_on_the_family_less_than_amicable.php?ref=fpa
Looks like Dobson might have been canned by Focus on the Family — at least his radio show is not his any longer, and he’s not happy.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:32 pmWhat would have been the problem if she attended the prom with her girlfriend?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:32 pmwreckingcrew
Everything from you is ignorant BULLLLLLLSSSSHHHHHITTTT.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:32 pmYep, it’s kkk land or the land of mr duke or is that dutchland?
Either way, it’s America and it’s going to obey the laws of the land.
This is hate crime. No less.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:33 pmI love Constance and her girlfriend for being so courageous. It’s the flip side of false patriotism being hawked by conservative, fear-mongering homophobes. The lesbians win again, just by standing their ground. And frankly, that school shouldn’t hold a prom if it won’t welcome everyone. Tradition be damned.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:33 pmNat says:
What would have been the problem if she attended the prom with her girlfriend?
A lot of jealous dudes… and probably more than a few ladies, too.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:33 pmWhen you live in fear, it is a scary world. And very small.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:34 pmYes. The evangeliban strikes again.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:34 pmNat says:
What would have been the problem if she attended the prom with her girlfriend?
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I don’t know…none? Dance/talk for a few hours…leave…no problem.
I wonder if the admins. in the school board are the kind of fundies who seem to think “teh gay” is an airborne disease.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:35 pmHoodathunk(sponsored by the Church of Holy Beer) says:
March 11th, 2010 at 2:37 pmWhen you live in fear, it is a scary world. And very small.
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Does that mean fundie world will eventually shrink into nothingness?
Wish I could vote your comment up more than once. These people need our support.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:38 pmOne student told her, “Thanks for ruining my senior year.”
As long as we’re thanking people, I want to thank the Republican Party…
for ruining America’s economy… for trashing our moral standing in the world… for polluting our air, water, land, and food… for giving trillions of our tax dollars to the wealthiest 1% of Americans and leaving the rest of us with the IOU… for starting four wars in the Middle East… and for killing thousands of defenseless men, women, and children in the Middle East on a daily basis.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:39 pmwreckingcrew says:
Apparently, this troll didn’t realize that TP is dedicated to promoting progressive ideas and thought we didn’t know it either. I suppose he can be excused because of his lack of intellect and the fact that TP graciously lets regressives have a voice. And he can really be excused, so let’s all say “bye”.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:39 pmLefty Liberal says:
one student told her, “Thanks for ruining my senior year.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Must be from a loser who thought his only chance of EVER being laid was at the prom
March 11th, 2010 at 2:40 pmThank you Fred ♪♫♪. I’m blushing now.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:40 pm“I asked my teacher about it, and she said, ‘Well, you have to remember where you are,’” McMillen said.
The girl probably thought the answer to that question was “I’m in America”. *BUZZ* Wrong answer, apparently being in Mississippi supersedes being in American and having, what’s the word we die for… FREEDOM!
The administrators who made this decision would fit right into the Denver/Boulder Catholic church hierarchy. Apparently they live by the same motto, “Damn the Children”.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pmThe Mississippi school system has a very successful IQ reduction program.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:43 pmLefty Liberal says:
bizarrobrain (brought to you by The Citadel of Satanic Kitten Worship and Tidy Cat) says:
Hoodathunk(sponsored by the Church of Holy Beer) says:
When you live in fear, it is a scary world. And very small.
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Does that mean fundie world will eventually shrink into nothingness?
Given proper education, and judicious use of a clue bat, yes!
March 11th, 2010 at 2:43 pm–
The clue bat seems easier and funner but the education would last longer. Ah what the hell…our youth could get jobs smacking fundies in libraries when they cry or b!tch about science. :D
Wouldn’t cancelling the prom lead to “distractions to the educational process”.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:43 pm@62. Keep blushing, he’s not the only one. My cousin is gay and I’m glad he lives in Canada because this kind of crap would have him swinging on people. I’d vote up more than once any day.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:43 pmProm is a big deal to quite a lot of people. It’s not just about “getting laid”. If you didn’t care about yours that’s cool, but caring about it and looking forward to it are hardly wrong. I think statements to that effect are very unfair and overgeneralizing.
Beyond that, it’s not HER fault the prom was canceled, so she didn’t ruin anything. The bigots at her school did. They should direct their anger properly.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:45 pm@70. That’s a career if ever I heard one. Any idea on the pay?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:45 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
wreckingcrew says:
YO here the rest of your cult trolls friends and corn hole buddy s seem to not want to be a leader so maybe you can be there leader and help them out.
Cult Deprogramming and Cult Exit Counseling
Discusses deprogramming of cult members versus exit-counseling.
http://www.freeminds.org/psych/deprog.htm
being a leader does take a lot but i know theres one of you troll who can take charge.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:50 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Lefty Liberal says:
bizarrobrain (brought to you by The Citadel of Satanic Kitten Worship and Tidy Cat) says:
Lefty Liberal says:
bizarrobrain (brought to you by The Citadel of Satanic Kitten Worship and Tidy Cat) says:
Hoodathunk(sponsored by the Church of Holy Beer) says:
When you live in fear, it is a scary world. And very small.
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Does that mean fundie world will eventually shrink into nothingness?
Given proper education, and judicious use of a clue bat, yes!
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The clue bat seems easier and funner but the education would last longer. Ah what the hell…our youth could get jobs smacking fundies in libraries when they cry or b!tch about science. :D
As bad as the economy is, that might be the only jobs they can get. At least it will be worth spending the money on their salaries :)
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Well considering how shitty education is in the red states, I’m just amazed they haven’t started calling for the dismantling of libraries. Oh well…any fundie who also spews forth a bigoted rant or a Glenn Beck conspiracy theory gets a clue bat (with knowledge nails) to the back of the head.
The only downside I can see is it might trigger some sort of atheist clue-bat crusade. Oh well…
March 11th, 2010 at 2:50 pmFuzzyBeefSwallower
FOAD troll. Your ignorance is offensive to decent human beings
March 11th, 2010 at 2:51 pmSTORM says:
shoe (formerly shoeless, sponsored by Nike) says:
The Mississippi school system has a very successful IQ reduction program.
Mississippi has the highest percentage of African Americans in the country. Why do you think Blacks are dumb?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:52 pm–
He didn’t say anything about the African American community you racist shit head!
STORMfront
You ignorant racist pile of dogshit. Why do you think being a stupid punkass troll is a worthwhile endeavor? Why are you SO proud to be SO stupid? What is it about being a liar and a fool you find attractive?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:53 pmSigh, Storm why is it always about black people with you? What’s with the klanner logic you seem bound to? Does your racism truly know no bounds?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:54 pmThe hatred of the trolls. Slurpy Fuzzies and stiffypants show up making fun of the weight of Constance McMillen in the photo above.
That is pure hate. Can you feel the love Jesus?
Both of these bastards will rot in hell while Jesus pisses on their pathetic little souls.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:54 pmLet’s let Eugene handle the trolls.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:55 pmi vote that we give all the haters their own state. one no one wants like oklahoma, n. dakota, or arizona (apparently mississsippi). they can all go live there and establish any rules they want. they can outlaw gays, they can build a wall to keep out minorities. whatever they want. and then we’ll be free from all of this bullshit.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:55 pmMississippi has the highest percentage of African Americans in the country. Why do you think Blacks are dumb?
Because their white, affluent, insist on directing the lions’ share of school funding to their own children’s school district, through their elected officials.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:56 pmUSNclerk says:
March 11th, 2010 at 2:56 pm@70. That’s a career if ever I heard one. Any idea on the pay?
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Three ideas:
1) Set salary-minimum wage is like $7.55 (this may be higher depending on where you live but this is the national minimum).
2) Pay a certain amount per fundie K.O.
@87, Fuzzy and Stiffy are probably both 300+ . Fat fu cking hypocrites.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:56 pmUSNclerk
Absolutely. His racism knows no bounds
dixieblood
Sorry. Trolls HAVE no souls
March 11th, 2010 at 2:57 pmLefty Liberal says:
bizarrobrain (brought to you by The Citadel of Satanic Kitten Worship and Tidy Cat) says:
The only downside I can see is it might trigger some sort of atheist clue-bat crusade. Oh well…
And how would that be any different that what we are seeing now?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:57 pm–
Aluminum foil armor.
Phuck you long, hard and wide — right to the skull you piss soaked, shit stained, puke breath, diaper chomping, boy molesting, honky, peckerwood stack of used bloody Kotex.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:58 pmUmmm, don’t we have other issues like health care, economy, unemployment, and problems in the Middle East that we should be focusing on. It’s a way for the Neocon, Tea Baggers to get us to take our eye off the ball. I don’t agree with the decision that was made, but our energy should be focused elsewhere.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:58 pmI don’t know what the problem here is with these school leaders but they are the most immature lot I’ve ever seen. Can’t have it their way so they decide to ruin it for everyone by canceling the prom so no one can go?
Making this girl a target for abuse and persecution?
What a bunch of immature pricks.
:|
Besides. What’s the problem?
Every prom I ever went to as a teenager there were always more girls dancing with other girls than with other boys.
I don’t recall anyone complaining back then so what’s the beef?
March 11th, 2010 at 2:59 pmMay Constance McMillen and her girlfriend have a love affair that lasts nearly 38 years – as Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin’s did
March 11th, 2010 at 3:01 pm@93. So they have no souls, then we don’t have to worry about feeling guilty for wishing harm upon them right?
March 11th, 2010 at 3:01 pmSTORM says:
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shoe (formerly shoeless, sponsored by Nike) says:
The Mississippi school system has a very successful IQ reduction program.
Mississippi has the highest percentage of teabagging hick Republican rednecks in the country. Why do you think teabagging hick Republican rednecks are dumb?
March 11th, 2010 at 3:02 pmYou’re funny, Fuzzy.
Then again, so was Sam Kinison, and he was an SOB.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:03 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
UPDATE The AP reports that when McMillen returned to school today after the prom cancellation announcement, she received some “some unfriendly looks from classmates,” and one student told her, “Thanks for ruining my senior year.”
The school district knows that she would be blamed and that’s what they were hoping for. Never mind their bigoted policy…
March 11th, 2010 at 3:04 pmHey STORM, why don’t you go to say, a Lakers game or any football game and tell all those dumb n##gers what you think–and post the results on You Tube? You know, stand up for your convictions?
March 11th, 2010 at 3:04 pmSTORM says:
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.
shoe (formerly shoeless, sponsored by Nike) says:
The Mississippi school system has a very successful IQ reduction program.
Mississippi has the highest percentage of African Americans in the country. Why do you think Blacks are dumb?
The trolls drag down the collective IQ of this country…Case point YOU, your racism, your hatred of the so-called other…
March 11th, 2010 at 3:06 pmThe racist pile of cat shit known as STORM Ditch would have to be in a Federal prison to stand up for his convictions. And he would most likely be bent over a bed taking it in the back 40 so forget about “standing up.”
March 11th, 2010 at 3:07 pmSTORM, I invite you to tell that to any black person you meet.
Just to confirm your thesis.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:11 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
One could also say that it is one of the most politically conservative states in the entire nation.
Why do you think Conservatives are dumb, STORM?
March 11th, 2010 at 3:13 pmOf course, he would have to careful that they didn’t find out he likes it, or they probably would stop giving it to him.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:15 pmI’ve got a short chain waiting here for you…lots of links… you racist, piece of worthless goddamned shit.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:15 pmThat’s like asking a leopard why it has spots.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:17 pmBlindingly idiotic and I fear for the girls safety.
You know, after the elections and the fringe righties led by Captain Magic Underpants, Glen Beck, were shouting about re-education camps, I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. Incidences like this make me think they are badly needed. They wouldn’t really be re-education camps, they would just be education camps.
Jeesh.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:17 pmWe should congratulate the school administration for making something out of nothing. Idiots.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:18 pmLefty Liberal says:
Stormy, stormy, stormy. Even if I would put links here, you are too stupid to be able to comprehend what they are saying. Anything more complex than 1+1=2 and you are out of your league.
I almost suggested STROM check out some library books on the topic but I caught myself in time.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:24 pmConstance and her girlfriend have a whole lot of courage to buck the system in such a stinking red cesspool of hypocritical evangelical talibanic conservatism.
Thank you, Constance, for your courage – please stay safe!
March 11th, 2010 at 3:26 pmOne of our regular trolls is particularly stupid, shallow and racist today. It must be hard to be her. So full of hate and all. But then again, with so much ignorance inside, it probably disguises the stupidity and lack of depth.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:28 pmThe AP reports that when McMillen returned to school today after the prom cancellation announcement, she received some “some unfriendly looks from classmates,” and one student told her, “Thanks for ruining my senior year.”
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Talk about blaming the wrong person and adding insult to injury! McMillen isn’t the one who made the decision to cancel the prom (a decision which was in any case unjust and completely out of proportion). The other student should put the blame for this where it belongs — on the shoulders of the district administrators.
This much is certain — as Garrison Keillor once said about one of his characters, perhaps this incident will give McMillen a greater interest in geography since it’s only too clear that she’ll be a lot happier once she gets out of school and moves away from Mississippi.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:30 pmOne would think that STORM, having just emerged from the closet, would offer at least a word of support for his fellow LGBT community members as they struggle against the system that opporesses them all.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pmLeftside Annie, brought to you by the Far Left Smear Merchants™ says:
Constance and her girlfriend have a whole lot of courage to buck the system in such a stinking red cesspool of hypocritical evangelical talibanic conservatism.
Thank you, Constance, for your courage – please stay safe!
Staying safe should be the common wish for Constance and her girlfriend. I’m hoping no one does anything stupid for something as petty as a canceled prom.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:33 pmAdministrators turned down requests from 18-year-old Constance McMillen and her girlfriend[...]
Do all couples (and individuals?) need to request permission from the administration prior to attending the prom? If only same-sex couples need to request permission, is this written in policy somewhere? I can understand the need for an estimated headcount prior to the prom, but is the administration really micromanaging this to the degree that students need to register who they will be going with?
March 11th, 2010 at 3:34 pmCut Squirmy some slack. He’s fresh out of the closet and having a difficult time realizing he thinks Tiger is hot.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:35 pmgay an dlesbian tax dollars are being used to stage proms nationwide. it’s only fair they should be allowed to attend any damn way they please
March 11th, 2010 at 3:35 pmQuestion: What kind of school keeps track of who buys Prom tickets?
Answer: Ones run by homophobic fundies.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:38 pmIts true what I said, right? Don’t most of you remember the girls dancing with other girls at these things?
It was pretty common. In fact they did it on “Leave it to Beaver” when Wally went to his prom, and that was in the 1960’s.
If it was good enough for Ward and June Cleaver’s kid then it should be good enough for anyone, even if they’re living in the bible belt.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:39 pmAnd for those who are poking fun at Ms. McMillen over her size I’ll refer you to Winston Churchill. You will be ugly forever.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:43 pmAnd for those who are poking fun at Ms. McMillen over her size I’ll refer you to Winston Churchill. You will be ugly forever.
Fuzzy is just jealous that Constance has someone that loves her other than her own family. Sucks to be you Fuzzy.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:46 pmI’ve run out of religious tolerance.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:48 pmAnd I thought Storm would relax and be more like a human being after coming out of the closet. Instead he seems to have become more hateful. Maybe he is wrestling with the idea of coming out to his friends and family.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:52 pmPaging Mr Duke, Mr Duke, you’re called away from the masturbatorium to announce that you have just coincientally “stumbled across” another thread about gay rights on TP.
@34
A curious post, first acknowledging the backwards taliban-like attitudes of the religious right, then claiming that there is no problem with this attitude, and that everything posted here is a lie.
You got issues, son. Maybe if hearing about gay rights bothers you, you should head on back to wherever the South Park Conservatives* go, like WND or RedState or wherever.
*Not that SP is to blame, but that brand of conservative always thinks SP isn’t making fun of them either. Not true!
March 11th, 2010 at 3:53 pm@79
They’re not running the school district. And yes, if “Blacks” were behind this, they would be stupid. Not because they’re black, but because of the beliefs held.
Your “liberals are the real racists because…” doesn’t work, always hilarious from someone named after STORMFRONT of all places.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:58 pmBozo The Neoclown says:
gay an dlesbian tax dollars are being used to stage proms nationwide. it’s only fair they should be allowed to attend any damn way they please
When I went to high school, there were no tax dollars used for the prom. The school would allow the use of the gym and/or send teachers to monitor the students but they really had no authority. The prom is paid for by the students. Mine was not on school premises so there were no tax dollars involved.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:59 pmThank God she wasn’t lynched,after all it’s Mississippi!
March 11th, 2010 at 4:05 pmLook at the Gov of Miss. for instance, he Gov Barbour talks like he’s got a pair of real American tea-bags caught in his throat!
Obviously ‘Footloose’ wasn’t a big hit in Mississippi.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:06 pmWhat the hell differene does it make who goes to the prom with whom?
The idea is to dance and dress up and have fun — unless the preference is to drink oneself stupid and have sex in the back seat of the car.
Lots of kids don’t even go to the prom in couples. So what?
I am so fed up with christians, racists, repugniscum and other lowlifes and their incessant persecution of people who don’t fit their very parochial and provincial description of right and wrong.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:18 pmpez is just pissed that he couldn’t bring his boy friend (his hand) to his high-school prom. Do your parents know about your relationship?
March 11th, 2010 at 4:18 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
“distractions to the educational process caused by recent events”
How would a dance disrupt education? That’s only happening now that they’ve made the decision to cancel it. Nice work, hayseeds!
March 11th, 2010 at 4:20 pm@141 Maybe you should stop being such an attention-whore and attracting attention to things that aren’t your goddamned business? Seriously, you’re a shrill little whiner.
Also, gays and lesbians should have different water fountains, sit at the back of the bus, and other such separate but equality.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:22 pmpezmiztix,
Tell us more about how you are going to “slaughter obama” before the holiday season.
You threatened to kill the POTUS today. Are you ready to face the SS and FBI?
You are a worthless, honky, peckerwood stack of rusty trailer homes filled with moist cat shit.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:22 pm@144 Oh Duke, we missed you! *HUG*
You’re welcome to read up on gays as much as your gay little heart desires. Enjoy!
March 11th, 2010 at 4:23 pm@147
Link?
March 11th, 2010 at 4:24 pm“Icky up”? People use that word?
First the belief that dinosaurs and man roamed the Earth simultaneously, then this.
You’re as real as a rhinestone, Pez.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:26 pmAnd yet…you’re here almost every day, Mr. Duke.
I think you’ve got a crush on the “gay agenda” here.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:27 pm#149 – mausium,
This thread:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/11/turbotax-beck/comment-page-4/#comment-6060361
at comment #124.
He speaks of the “slaughter of obama”
March 11th, 2010 at 4:27 pmmausium says:
@144 Oh Duke, we missed you! *HUG*
You’re welcome to read up on gays as much as your gay little heart desires. Enjoy!
March 11th, 2010 at 4:27 pm–
Haha. I think Duke prefers pictures.
pez is an accredited expert on ‘icky’.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:29 pmdb, that was pretty much figurative from pez. All talk and no action. He couldn’t lift a pen, let alone a sword.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:30 pmMr. Duke is not into gay…heehaw…he has other interests in the barnyard…heehaw. How is your Jenny doing, Duke?
March 11th, 2010 at 4:31 pm@151 Yeah, he’s trying to smugpost it’s pretty silly to expect people to suddenly go “OH MY GOD THE TOPIC IS ABOUT GAYYYSSSS” when the person who’s looking for embarassment is a gay hanger-on. Mr. Duke’s kind of like the mascot of TP’s gay contingent, and he’s welcome to pay attention to just how boring the conversations can get.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:33 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
#158 – conservative guy says:
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
And BAD for American citizens, and the US Constitution. So much for “pursuit of happiness”.
I guess our founding fathers considered that portion of the Constitution to apply to white men and nobody else, ever.
March 11th, 2010 at 4:56 pmMr.Dupe says:
… hee haw.
Do you have bright orange hair, buck teeth and heavy black frame glasses, Mr. Dupe?
March 11th, 2010 at 5:00 pmWelcome to the new South — same as the old South.
Yeppers. This gay couple thing is surely distracting to the edumacational process. It certainly would be worse than the usual heterosexual cousin couples, drunken orgies and unintended pregnancies that are the usual Southern Prom traditions.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:01 pmGood for the school district.
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March 11th, 2010 at 5:01 pmHow so?
conservative guy says:
“Good for the school district.”
Probably not.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:02 pmOnce a district captures the attention of state boards of education, the scrutiny usually digs a little deeper.
Mr.Duke says:
mausium says:
Paging Mr Duke, Mr Duke, you’re called away from the masturbatorium to announce that you have just coincientally “stumbled across” another thread about gay rights on TP.
I am here…. right now…. the daily “gay” story on this website. … the streak is unstoppable. … keep pushing that gay agenda TP. … hee haw.
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*fap, fap, fap, fap* I am here…. *fap, fap, fap, fap* right now…. *fap, fap, fap, fap* the daily “gay” story on this website. … *fap, fap, fap, fap* the streak is unstoppable. *fap, fap, fap, fap* … keep pushing that (big) gay agenda TP. *fap, fap, fap, fap* … *fap, fap, fap, fap* hee haw. *fap, fap, fap, fap*
See how gay Duke sounds?
March 11th, 2010 at 5:02 pmdbadass… this little gem was forwarded to me by an agency biologist today:
According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated:
Wash. Biol. Surv.
Until the agency received the following letter from an Arkansas camper:
“Dear Sirs:
While camping last week I shot one of your birds. I think it was a crow. I followed the cooking instructions on the leg tag and I want to tell you it was horrible.”
March 11th, 2010 at 5:07 pmThe bands are now marked Fish and Wildlife Service.
Can’t visit the website, but here is the principal’s email address.
twiygul@itawamba.k12.ms.us
Ugh. This is disgusting.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:22 pmAnd the email for the district superintendent
tmcneece@itawamba.k12.ms.us
March 11th, 2010 at 5:24 pmThe AP reports that when McMillen returned to school today after the prom cancellation announcement, she received some “some unfriendly looks from classmates,” and one student told her, “Thanks for ruining my senior year.”
Morons will always find a way — which the school district counted on.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:32 pm“Thanks for ruining my senior year.”
If not having a prom is all it takes to ruin this students senior year, maybe she’s not ready to graduate.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:51 pmyeah I am the ignorant one. At least i am not so smug I actually believe that I cam change hundreds of years of thinking in the most southern belt state there is. You people baffle me..not one person in the entire state of Mississippi reads this trash website. Eugene Debs if you wanna be a bulldyke thats your thing. Just do it in the designated areas. fatty mcfatster.
March 11th, 2010 at 6:29 pmnoseeum, et al… says:
If not having a prom is all it takes to ruin this students senior year, maybe she’s not ready to graduate.
The simplest solution is to find another place to hold the prom. The kids don’t need the school involved to have a prom. If they did do it without the school, then the school would have no say so about the prom.
March 11th, 2010 at 6:34 pmSomeone needs to step forward and pony up the bucks for the “independent prom” for these kids and let the bigoted members of the faculty stay home and watch Hannity.
Before someone asks me to do it, I am already financing the prom for my kid’s high school in Houston. Yes, the whole thing. The school simply can’t raise the money. I’m happy to do it, even though my kid isn’t even a senior yet. But the school has good kids and a good faculty. They deserve it, and it’s been a good year.
March 11th, 2010 at 6:48 pmWhen a state, city, or school district decides to create laws, rules, or regulations that encourage — or worse, mandate — prejudice and bigotry, then one has no recourse except to challenge the legality and constitutionality of the legislation in a court of law.
To suggest that she should be vilified because the district decided to act so immaturely is inane.
Should Rosa Parks have refused to sit in the back of the bus? Had the bus driver told everyone to get off the bus and walk because of her heroic stand, would we reflect back in history and condemn her for making the white passengers suffer?
March 11th, 2010 at 7:29 pmI find it laughable at the Biblical experts here that call themselves Christians and then quote and mention Old Testament scriptures. Many of the Old Testament scriptures were directions for how the Jews could differentiate themselves from the other tribes in the Middle East. Things like kosher dietary requirements, the treatment of women and slaves and the Sabbath and sacrifices.
You Christians do know that the Old Testament is the book of the Jews and that the death of Christ created a new covenant between God and His people. If Sodom and Gomorra was destroyed because of homosexuality, why wasn’t Athens, Sparta, Alexandria or Rome destroyed; they all had homosexuality as part of the society. Also Jesus Christ NEVER, NEVER said anything about homosexuality, homosexuality was a part of life in the Ancient World so you would think that the founder of Christianity would have said something, anything about the evils of homosexuality.
As for being unnatural, homosexuality occurs in nature regularly; apes, monkeys, dogs and other wild animals engage in homosexual acts. There is more and more scientific evidence that people who are gay are born that way; which means that God wants them to be gay. But Christians don’t care about science and the progression of the human race; the list is so very long– the earth is the center of the Universe, Evolution, the practice of Chemistry being demonized as witchcraft and the study of Human Anatomy having to being done in secret.
March 11th, 2010 at 7:59 pmYou people baffle me..not one person in the entire state of Mississippi reads this trash website.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:10 pm—
Is there a reason you are pretending that this is the only source which has noted this event? I already told you that it was up on Yahoo hours before here. How many folks do you think see Yahoo news? Would you like to make a wager on how this plays out? Oh and do you know any sincere articulate conservatives by any chance. I am working on a collaborative project and am having a difficult time finding the folks I need to make it work. Thanks-
175. dbadass – there are currently over 45,000 comments on this story at Yahoo news. So I think that fact alone makes your point.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:18 pmwreckingcrew says:
You people baffle me..not one person in the entire state of Mississippi reads this trash website.
It would only take one to prove you are ignorant.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:38 pmJC1269 says:
If Sodom and Gomorra was destroyed because of homosexuality, why wasn’t Athens, Sparta, Alexandria or Rome destroyed; ….
God got too busy with the adulterers and forgot about those cities. In fact, God has still got his hands full with the adulterers. Thank goodness, God doesn’t send hellfire and brimstone because there would be a lot of empty red states.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:50 pmreceived some “some unfriendly looks from classmates,” and one student told her, “Thanks for ruining my senior year.”
And yet somehow, I suspect MsMcMillan would be seen as being a b*tch unless she spends her time at school smiling and being cooperative to the point of being subservient.
It is perfectly OK for her to have to sit there and listen to all the talk about the glamor of the prom. Every single minute of her high school existence. And she had better smile and giggle.
And althought the percentage of the population which is homosexual may be in doubt, reasonable estimates imply that 10 to 20 % of the students in the school had better do likewise. OR ELSE !
March 11th, 2010 at 9:53 pmI should have added, that I would naturally tend to be “anti-gay” but events such as this are a large part of what convinces me that we need “gay rights.”
March 11th, 2010 at 9:55 pmLooks like the ACLU made the mistake of thinking people aren’t crazy as crack house rats in Ol Miss.
I hope the girls parents can afford a bulletproof vest for her ’cause she’s going to need it.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:15 pm@170 If
of all places can allow legal gay marriage, I’m going to assume that the rest of the state isn’t as inbred as your kin, and that stories like these are going to crop up more often, then disappear. Again, as happened with the irish, blacks, women, any other group you hate.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
@180
What does that even mean?
March 11th, 2010 at 11:00 pm“Distraction to the educational process”?! WTF is that supposed to mean? I don’t remember going to the prom to be a part of an “educational process,” it was about seeing if you could get the person you wanted to go with, to go with you. And bringing in Bacardi’s 151 to share with your bros, making out with the person you came with (or someone else, if things didn’t work out), dancing, and avoiding the monitors. Stuff like that.
Seriously, that’s such an immature reaction on the school’s part. They’re supposed to be educators? What a bunch of babies!
March 11th, 2010 at 11:26 pmI think Connie’s gown would require less fabric than a suit for Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett or Dick Cheney.
Fuzzy Slippers™ A Solid B+ says:
March 12th, 2010 at 12:38 amHow many yards of fabric will it take for Connie’s gown? You think that Ms. Obama might tell her to mix in a salad once and a while?
Mr.Duke says:
keep pushing that gay agenda TP
Equal rights for all. We refer to that as the “American agenda.”
March 12th, 2010 at 3:15 am#186 – ElBruce, owned and operated by NewsCorp, Inc. says:
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“Equal rights for all. We refer to that as the “American agenda.””
March 12th, 2010 at 3:15 am
I’ve always found it somewhat amusing that it’s the right-whiners who so obviously hate American values like equal rights for all.
March 12th, 2010 at 9:54 amwreckingcrew
If YOU want to be an ignorant brainwashed pile of dogshit why dont you go stink up some other site. Since you are too stupid and pathetic to even come NEAR a cogent argument why dont you STFU?
March 13th, 2010 at 8:23 amFuzzyBeefSwallower
Yes let me enlighten you. You are stupid. You are pathetic. You are a liar a moron and a punkass troll. Not a single person you ever meet in your entire life will ever care about you or respect you. Let me enlighten you. You have nothing to live for. You will be abysmally stupid and your entire life. You will disgust every decent human being who ever come in contact with your pitiful self. The upshot of which is that when you GAIN enlightenment you will realize the only decent thing you can do is to kill yourself. Until then go FCUK yourself
March 13th, 2010 at 8:27 amBy the way wreckingcrew
YEAH you are definitly the ignorant one
March 13th, 2010 at 8:29 am