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Constance wanted to take her girlfriend Minerva to the prom at at Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi. She hoped to wear a tux, too.
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McMillen approached the school to make sure it would be ok for her and Minerva to attend. In response, the board sent out a memo including these guidelines for all dates:
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That’s when the ACLU got involved, and sent the school board a memo saying they were violation Constance’s civil rights by barring her from the prom. The school board responded by canceling the prom altogether. Now the ACLU is suing to make sure the prom happens. Write the school board and let them know you think this is not ok! (It’s not ok — for more on that, go here.) Write Theresa McNeese — tmcneese@itawamba.k12.ms.us and tell her to let Constance take her girlfriend to prom!
Let Constance Take Her Girlfriend to Prom!
Constance McMillen just wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom. The local Mississippi school board said no, and the ACLU is suing to have the prom go on. Get involved! (via Roger Ebert)
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☁Spam Of God☁ 3 years agoI danced with my boyfriend at the time, on the raised platform at the prom, in Tulsa Oklahoma, in 2001. People seemed uncomfortable but that was the worst of it, no public lynchings.
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Michele A. 3 years agois anyone really surprised? i mean, there is a school in mississippi that only just started having a racially integrated prom like 2 or 3 years ago…yeah, they used to have a black prom and a white prom separately…in this century!!! http://festival.sundance.org/2009/film_events/films/prom_night_in_mississippi
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whatthebuckwannabe 3 years agoI’m from Mississippi and I just want to say: Why is it any of their business in the first place?! Let the girl take who she wants to the prom and wear whatever she wants! Or did we all become communists and I just missed the memo?
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Chopped 3 years agoSorry rules ARE rules (otherwise why have them ?).
No sympathy from me. Good life lesson for Constance to learn as she enters adulthood “Life is NOT Fair” and the life lesson to learn for ALL the other students who miss out “It only takes one person to f*ck it up for the rest of us” -
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John Winskowicz 3 years agoThey don’t work, you’re right Steve. So I tracked down another email address, Clare Brown, he is a school board member. Here’s her email and the link to others. cbrown@network-one.com http://www.itawambacountyschools.com/board_members.htm
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Mock Turtle 3 years agoOh, Mississippi. First you were on such a roll with Admiral Ackbar, and now this. You’ve let me down. :( I’m moving to New Hampshire.
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Frolf Grizbee 3 years agoI’d be way more supportive of this if there wasn’t a lawsuit involved.
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turdinoneword 3 years ago
Correction: first, they told her she couldn’t bring her girlfriend to prom. Second, she told them that she intended to do so and if they didn’t like it she would see them in court. Third, the board canceled the prom, and put out the request for a private organization to host their own prom. I think that’s a swell idea, personally. I suggest we all write to Ellen Degeneres and ask her to host the prom.
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Billy 3 years agoWell, she looks pretty cute and was planning on wearing the tux herself. If she’s the butch one of the pair then I don’t get why there’s not a groundswell of support from the guys at her school. All kidding aside, though, I have no problem with same sex couples attending. In fact, I’m a little disturbed by the “may be a college age student” provision. I’d rather my 17 or 18 year-old be in a stable gay relationship with someone of the same age than with someone who could be 22 or, arguably, older.
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