Lesbian Teen Sent To Decoy Prom While Other Kids Party At Real One(Link)
All the news had been good for Constance McMillen, who was supposed to bring her girlfriend to her school's privately sponsored prom on Friday. Except that prom was a decoy.

The Advocate writes,

McMillen tells The Advocate that a parent-organized prom happened behind her back - she and her date were sent to a Friday night event at a country club in Fulton, Miss., that attracted only five other students. Her school principal and teachers served as chaperones, but clearly there wasn't much to keep an eye on.

Making matters worse, McMillen's school may have ostracized disabled kids at the fake prom as well. The Advocate also says:

Two students with learning difficulties were among the seven people at the country club event, McMillen recalls. "They had the time of their lives," McMillen says. "That's the one good thing that come out of this, [these kids] didn't have to worry about people making fun of them [at their prom]."

McMillen continues to sound preternaturally wise and clear-headed, in a situation that would test anyone's faith in humanity. And if the allegations of a real prom held somewhere else are true, her classmates sound unworthy to go to school with her. Of the rumors of an alternate prom for the straight and able-bodied students at Itawamba Agricultural High, Gawker initially wrote, "this could all be untrue scuttlebutt, but we find it hard to believe that all those kids really wouldn't go to their big dance just because one girl and her date were there, unless they had another place to party that same night." And indeed, Facebook photos soon revealed that other kids from McMillen's school were at some prom Friday night, and there were more than seven people in attendance.

According to the blog of a Mississippi lawyer, the teens may have had help planning their fake-out. Tom Freeland writes that after the cancellation of the school's prom, parents set up an alternate — but they didn't want McMillen to attend. So they pretended to cancel their prom, but really moved it to a secret location. Even worse, Freeland writes, "there's a rumor that school officials were directly involved in setting up the 'fake' prom." It's not clear if this is true, or what, if any, involvement adults had in sending McMillen to a decoy prom, but it seems unlikely that a group of teenagers could have both organized and funded a last-minute secret prom on their own.

The fact that anyone was willing to go to such lengths to exclude and belittle a teenager is pretty terrifying — it seems that denying McMillen the right to dance with everyone else was worth quite a lot of money and hassle to the people of Itawamba County School District. And unless there's some other explanation for the sparse attendance at McMillen's prom, and the grinning Facebook photos at the other one, McMillen's school must suffer from a deeply toxic atmosphere. McMillen actually seems relatively undaunted by her continued persecution, but the students who excluded her will have to live with the memory that they brutally tricked a classmate simply because of the gender of her date. They'll grow up believing that any deviation from a heterosexual (and able-bodied) standard is cause for elaborate ostracism. I don't envy them.

THIS!!

Bigots Now Targeting Lesbian Teen's Graduation(Link)
It apparently wasn't enough that Constance McMillen's school insulted her with a decoy prom. Now the Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket McMillen's graduation, protesting against homosexuality and "the biggest lie of all - that God loves everyone."

Two gay teens, Jordan Nixon and his boyfriend Chase have been allowed to attend prom at Starmount High School in Booneville, NC after Jordan's mom Leesa heard how Chase had been told by the principal that he couldn't bring a "friend" to the prom. After explaining that Jordan was not a friend but a "boyfriend" the school still wouldn't relent.

Jordan's mom Leesa Nixon went to the principal, threatened to take action and go to the media, and quickly the issue was resolved.

This is the story of a great parent standing up for her gay kid and a school faced with the threat of exposing its discriminatory behavior.

• starmountmom
North Wilkesboro, NC
Sunday Apr 18
I myself have a son who is a Senior at Starmount High. I really disagree with this and am now in the proces of trying to plan out an alternate plan to the prom. I have spoken with several parents and we all feel that if these two boys are allowed to go to prom that there may be trouble and we don’t want it to interfere with our children and their special night.

• fed up
Jonesville, NC
Monday Apr 19
I am the parent of a student that will be a junior next year. There WILL be a PRIVATE prom next year for Starmount High students to attend by invitation only. The ballroom has already been reserved at a very nice hotel in the Elkin/Jonesville area and there will be a dj and all the catering and decorations. We will be contacting other parents if you’d like to help make this a truly special prom for your straight kids.I for one AM NOT too cowardly to stand up for what is RIGHT!

• John
Mocksville, NC
Monday Apr 19
What the other students at Starmount High School should do is boycott the Prom. Let NO attend except these two. The school would be seen as caving in to the treat of being called into the ACLU. The mom in this instance, is looking for “attention” and publicity. It is common knowledge that she and her son plan to move to California after graduation this year. That is JUST the place to have these relationships.

• Scam wrote:
It would be no different were it pedophiles, necrophiliacs,people who have sex with animals, showing up at the prom. Homosexuality is a sickness that no child should be exposed to. It certainly should not be taught that there is nothing wrong with it! Do you teach your children about the other perverted , degenerate things certain people CHOOSE to engage in? Sick world only being made sicker by telling sick people that they aren’t sick!

• fed up wrote:
Lev 18:22 “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman;that is detestable.”
29 “Everyone who does these detestable things such persons must be cut off from their people.”
20:13 “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
Rom 1;27 “In the same way the men also abandoned natural relationswith womenand were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselvesthe due penalty for their perversion.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
1Cor 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God?Do not be deceived:Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders.
NOW YOU TELL ME YOU ARE DOING YOUR JOB AS A PARENT? YOU ARE SENDING YOUR CHILD TO HELL!!!!!

Also, every child that went to the private prom had a choice to make. They could have chosen the official event over the private one

NOW YOU TELL ME YOU ARE DOING YOUR JOB AS A PARENT? YOU ARE SENDING YOUR CHILD TO HELL!!!!!

Aren't they at school with these other kids every day the whole rest of the year anyway?

Just for the record, I'm fine with someone fucking a sheep as long as I don't have to see it.

Negative Vana.

She was originally told that she could go but would be asked to leave if any of the other attendees complained. They also told her she could not wear a Mans Tux. Just like they would have any of the other girls if they asked.

Being the drama whore she is, she then filed a lawsuit to not only attend with her girlfriend, but to be able to wear a man's tux.

She was originally told that she could go but would be asked to leave if any of the other attendees complained.

I still can't fathom the whole "the school's rules are and always were X, why make exceptions?!" logic. By this, schools that had colored water fountains should have retained them merely because they had been in place for a long enough time. At some point you have to admit that it's discrimination. No "exceptions" need to be made, merely the rules need to be changed in order to represent the fact that for homosexual couples, customary attire like a woman in a tux/suit has become acceptable/reasonable for such an occasion.

Who tells a kid they can go to the prom but if anyone complains they are there they will have to leave? I wouldn't be surprised if the girl added extra drama to this whole incident, but it certainly appears the parents and school had much, much more hand in the mishandling of this. What high school kid isn't attracted to drama anyway, that isn't something restricted to gay students. The adults should know better and handle themselves as role models, not hate mongers.

I am going to hold a school prom and say nobody is allowed to have an afro.... that should keep the blacks out.

At the end of the day, she's probably a bit of a drama queen surrounded by bigots, with hilarity to follow.

I could just see Khan during the black civil rights movement...talking about how those drama queens should just use *their* water fountains, asking what's wrong with the back of the bus anyway, telling that King guy to stop trying to grab his 15 minutes of fame, and wishing they'd all stop "parading around" being so "openly black".

Apples and Oranges Bovine, too bad you are too stupid to realize that.

This isn't about gay rights in the least. Plain and simple, this is about rules that everyone regardless of sexual orientation is expected to and has followed concerning a voluntary function that if she wanted to attend and purchase a ticket for she must follow.

Stuff like that is what people should be concerned with and put an end to. Not this little bitch's petty complaints.

If you want to see a real tragedy, go back a week or so on Tarot's facebook page and find the story about the two men who did everything to the letter of the law concerning PoAs and such and lost everything they had.

find the story about the two men who did everything to the letter of the law concerning PoAs and such and lost everything they had.

She said she knew the school had a prohibition against same-sex prom dates, so she asked permission from Assistant Principal Rick Mitchell and Principal Trae Wiygul to attend with her girlfriend.

She was told that she could go only if both the two women were accompanied by male dates, McMillen testified.

Superintendent Teresa McNeece, Wiygul and school board Chairman Eddie Hood testified that they received a lot of angry e-mails in response to their no-prom decision.

McNeese also testified that the prom had become a distraction in classrooms, although Wiygul said that school had gone on as normal despite the looming issue about the prom.

Hood, who has been on the board for 18 years, said the district had its prohibition of same-sex prom dates for years. He said the rule was not intended to be anti-gay but to “try to keep a bunch of boys or a bunch of girls from getting together and making it a party and not a prom.”

Assistant Principal Rick Mitchell told Constance that while she wouldn't be allowed to attend prom with her girlfriend, she could go with "guys." Meanwhile, Superintendent Teresa McNeece, whom Constance all met with, said she and her girlfriend (also a Itawamba student) could both attend, albeit separately. Both would also have to wear dresses, McNeece said (according to Constance's statement), and would be prohibited from slow dancing with each other, 'cause that would just "push people's buttons."

Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes.

That entire story is just insanity.

and it's terrible because it's an example of people discriminating against children because they believe they're too powerless to take action AND it's demonstrating to the other children that people in authority say it's OK to go ahead and behave that way...giving us another generation of this sort of nonsense.

And aren't you the one that made a big stink at the school your son was attending because you didn't agree with their policies? Back then it wasn't drama whoring, it was teaching your son to be a badass and stand up for himself, as I remember it. But this? Oh no, this is a RULE and it must be FOLLOWED and she is a OMFG DRAMA WHORE for speaking up about it!

Your hypocrisy is astonishing. Your blindness to your hypocrisy is even more astonishing.

I think everyone agrees that lynching was a bigger concern for blacks than sitting at the back of the bus. However, sitting at the back of the bus was one of the dehumanizing factors that legitimized lyching.

So - gay legal rights is probably a bigger concern than a lesbian at a prom. However, the degradation of forcing her out of the prom empowers people to deny homosexuals fundamental American rights - such as marriage.