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Lesbian Teen Sues To Force School To Hold Prom
JACKSON, Miss. — A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who said she faced some unhappy classmates after the Itawamba County School District said it wouldn't host the April 2 prom.
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One of the things that really stands out as inordinately stupid (even beyond the whole why-can't-two-girls-go-together) is that cross-dressing is an issue, because the girlfriend wanted to wear a tuxedo.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a tux is nothing more than a jacket and pants, right? And don't girls wear pants all the freakin' time?
I really wish there was a way to round up all the small-thinking, narrow-minded people and deposit them on a desert island somewhere. Or the moon. Somewhere far away, where their teeny, narrow thoughts aren't going to mess with the lives of those of us who can see that love is love, no matter the color or gender or anything else.
JACKSON, Miss. — A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who said she faced some unhappy classmates after the Itawamba County School District said it wouldn't host the April 2 prom.
Read the rest of the article here.
One of the things that really stands out as inordinately stupid (even beyond the whole why-can't-two-girls-go-together) is that cross-dressing is an issue, because the girlfriend wanted to wear a tuxedo.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a tux is nothing more than a jacket and pants, right? And don't girls wear pants all the freakin' time?
I really wish there was a way to round up all the small-thinking, narrow-minded people and deposit them on a desert island somewhere. Or the moon. Somewhere far away, where their teeny, narrow thoughts aren't going to mess with the lives of those of us who can see that love is love, no matter the color or gender or anything else.
