Gays first ruin marriage, now prom!
Posted at 1:25 PM Nov 11, 2009
By Andrea Grimes |
| courtesy ACLU |
| This is Cynthia, who is going to ruin your prom with her gayness. |
Naturally, when a lesbian high school couple decided to attend their school prom, the only logical thing the school could do was threaten to cancel prom. After all, what straight person in her right mind would shake her ass within miles--let alone feet--of a lesbian? Heck, she might even be tempted not to go back to a hotel room with her sexually inexperienced boyfriend and feel pressured to lose her virginity through vaginal intercourse, which is the only right and proper kind of sex to have. (Except you shouldn't ever ever have it, ladies!)
Per the ACLU:
Cynthia Stewart, a 17-year-old junior at Tharptown High School in northern Alabama, is a member of her school's prom planning committee, had personally raised over $200 for the prom, and created the theme her classmates had chosen for the dance. She is also an out lesbian.Honestly, the nerve of lesbians these days!
When Cynthia approached her principal to ask if she could bring her girlfriend with her to the prom, he said no. He also made Cynthia remove a sticker she was wearing that said, "I am a lesbian," telling her, "You don't have that much freedom of speech at school." Cynthia's aunt and guardian, Kathy Baker, then appealed the principal's decision to the school board. But the board let the decision to bar Cynthia from bringing her girlfriend to the prom stand.
This is just completely ridiculous. Not only do hetero same-sex "couples" go to prom all the time--by this I mean friends who go with each other as dates and the world doesn't fall apart at the hinges--but if I remember correctly, prom is pretty chock full of booty-grinding, pro-heterosex behavior. I fail to see a lesbian couple is going to ruin the whole event because of their sexuality.
Comments
This was done to a friend of mine at a Catholic school about 15 years ago. I'm sad we haven't come further. (My friend took a guy cousin so she could go...and then she and I ditched our dates with their approval to dance several dances together. The school hadn't said girls couldn't dance with girls, just that your date had to be opposite-sex....)
Posted 11/11/2009 at 02:09:50 PMIt makes me really sad to hear this. I guess it all depends on the sort of environment that the school is located in. I was openly gay throughout my high school years and I never got any sort of discrimination. I took my boyfriend to my prom and there were no irregularities anywhere for anyone. (To my knowledge)
Posted 11/11/2009 at 06:46:51 PMI consider my self lucky that I was/am able to live my life the way I want without having to worry about what other will say/do.
I took a girl to homecoming in 1993! Granted it was in the DC Metro area - but it was still Virginia. Sad that we haven't come any further. It certainly was fun watching the school flip when a cheerleader showed up with a girl! :-)~
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Posted 11/12/2009 at 01:22:56 AMI wonder if this attention was exactly what she wanted. Why did she feel the need to clear her prom date with the principal in the first place? You show up, you dance, drink a little punch, you go home. If you don't cause a ruckus the chaperones would have not reason to notice you or your date.
Posted 11/12/2009 at 09:37:58 AMLewen: My high school made you have your parents sign a form if you were bringing a same-sex date or someone from outside the school. Maybe the high school required her to get approval from the principal to bring a date from outside of the school.
Posted 11/12/2009 at 10:44:40 AMYou needed permission at my high school to bring a date that wasn't a senior at our high school, and that was in 2006. I can't believe this kind of thing still happens. I brought my friend (who was also a girl) to our prom, and the only out gay kid in my grade brought his boyfriend with no problems. This just reaffirms why I wasn't open about my sexuality in high school
Posted 11/12/2009 at 08:20:25 PM