From WCTV-TV(CBS)
A lesbian student in Mississippi who sued her school for the right to bring her girlfriend to the prom said she was sent to a fake prom instead.
Constance McMillen, 18, told The Advocate that last month's invitation to an alternate prom was a sham, saying that most students attended another dance organized by parents at a secret location.
"They had two proms and I was only invited to one of them," McMillen told the magazine. "The one that I went to had seven people there, and everyone went to the other one I wasn’t invited to."
"It hurts my feelings," she said.
Itawamba Agricultural High School cancelled its prom over the controversy sparked by McMillen's attempt to overturn the school's policy banning same-sex prom dates.
Last month, a federal judge ruled that the school district violated McMillen's constitutional rights, though did not reinstate the prom.
According to McMillen, the prom she attended was at a country club. She said of the five other students at the country club, two had learning disabilities.
"They had the time of their lives," McMillen said. "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]."
So, young Constance McMillen finds the upside of this nasty trick. And she and her girlfriend found common ground with the disabled in the struggle to be accepted for who they are.
As for the other students and parents of Fulton,MS no doubt they are "good christians". Hence they would be familiar with what Jesus had to say on their behavior, found in Mark's gospel:
Then Jesus said to them, ‘Prophets are not without honour, except in their home town, and among their own kin, and in their own house.’ And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. And he was amazed at their unbelief.
Then he went about among the villages teaching. He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. He said to them, ‘Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.’ So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. -Mark 6:4-12
Shake off the dust of this hometown, Constance. And may those who have needlessly hurt you repent. For if they don't regret and apologize for what they did, justice may come in something more terrible than what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah (yeah, that's right, 'christians'; you could go crackle, crackle, crackle!)
A lesbian student in Mississippi who sued her school for the right to bring her girlfriend to the prom said she was sent to a fake prom instead.
Constance McMillen, 18, told The Advocate that last month's invitation to an alternate prom was a sham, saying that most students attended another dance organized by parents at a secret location.
"They had two proms and I was only invited to one of them," McMillen told the magazine. "The one that I went to had seven people there, and everyone went to the other one I wasn’t invited to."
"It hurts my feelings," she said.
Itawamba Agricultural High School cancelled its prom over the controversy sparked by McMillen's attempt to overturn the school's policy banning same-sex prom dates.
Last month, a federal judge ruled that the school district violated McMillen's constitutional rights, though did not reinstate the prom.
According to McMillen, the prom she attended was at a country club. She said of the five other students at the country club, two had learning disabilities.
"They had the time of their lives," McMillen said. "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]."
So, young Constance McMillen finds the upside of this nasty trick. And she and her girlfriend found common ground with the disabled in the struggle to be accepted for who they are.
As for the other students and parents of Fulton,MS no doubt they are "good christians". Hence they would be familiar with what Jesus had to say on their behavior, found in Mark's gospel:
Then Jesus said to them, ‘Prophets are not without honour, except in their home town, and among their own kin, and in their own house.’ And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. And he was amazed at their unbelief.
Then he went about among the villages teaching. He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. He said to them, ‘Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.’ So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. -Mark 6:4-12
Shake off the dust of this hometown, Constance. And may those who have needlessly hurt you repent. For if they don't regret and apologize for what they did, justice may come in something more terrible than what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah (yeah, that's right, 'christians'; you could go crackle, crackle, crackle!)
2 comments:
I hadn't heard the end of this struggle and I agree she had the best of it and the rest of that community has a real problem.
Peggins
I hadn't heard the end of this struggle and I agree she had the best of it and the rest of that community has a real problem.
Peggins
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