| Mississippi highschool bans prom after petition from [message #93316] |
Thu, 11 March 2010 15:29  |
 CarolynnL 
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Fulton, Mississippi, a town of 4,000, will have no school sponsored prom this year. The district had promulgated a policy that required only one male and one female as a couple. A young lesbian girl petitioned to be allowed to bring a girl. The petitioner would be dressed in a tuxedo. Somehow the ACLU was asked to make a statement, which supported the student, not the school officials, so they canceled the April 2 prom. It is likely there will be a private prom that will exclude same sex couples, though the officials denied any knowledge of one.
Dinosaur's still rule in Mississippi. The students obviously are getting a quality education in Mississippi. Well, in the maintenance of bigotry at least.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35814348/ns/us_news-education/?G T1=43001
[Updated on: Thu, 11 March 2010 15:30]
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| Re: Mississippi high school bans prom after petition from [message #93333 is a reply to message #93328 ] |
Thu, 11 March 2010 17:32  |
lisagurl
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| Quote: | Lisa always blaming the victim.
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The community and stable education is the victim. They did not demand that the whole community change. It is an individual that started the problem and is taking from the whole community. Now is that fair? What has this individual given?
Public schools are funded by the public and rules made by the public. If one does not like the rules they are free to go someplace else. Children are not guaranteed adult rights.
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| Re: Mississippi high school bans prom after petition from [message #95866 is a reply to message #93327 ] |
Thu, 01 April 2010 07:50 |
sherri-ann
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SEE: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
Also, five other cases were combined onto Brown in et al. SEE:
Briggs v. Elliot et al.,
Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County
Gebhart v. Belton
Bolling v. Sharpe
FYI there's a rich history of precedent in which discrimination in any form is prohibited under several constitutional mechanisms, particularly the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause. Mississippi is asking for trouble as this case, if not resolved, will likely wind up making its way up the appeals chain, and possibly to the Supreme Court. The Constitution does not provide immunities to states' local school districts, it does the opposite by guaranteeing the individual right to participate in"any and all" taxpayer funded educational enterprises. Even private school's are not immune to Constitutional jurisdiction re acts or actions of discrimination, whether race, ethnicity, disability, or gender related.
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| Re: Mississippi high school bans trans student [message #95874 is a reply to message #95870 ] |
Thu, 01 April 2010 08:36 |
sherri-ann
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Jenny- I agree : ) but you really hit on a something that's likely to come to the fore sooner than you think. The prognosis in my legal circle(s) that deals with gender discrimination is that as gay rights are more and more recognized and become mainstream, so will gay men and women become not just "accepted," but incorporated to "normal" as much as anybody else in broader societies' eyes. I'm not saying this advancement is happening over night, but it is happening and it's a great, great thing. But the next "group" (the law calls them "protected classes") to emerge through the process is, well, us. As more and more young people are identifying as transgender and coming out at earlier and earlier, significant cases are bound to accumulate forward regarding the protection and abuse of anti discrimination rights as dictated by the Constitution and/or individual states themselves. So, I'd say, you're on to something! Support TLGB causes!
 Sherri
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