Gossip Lover

This is unfair and very sad that we live in a world where kids can’t be themselves. With all the other pressures kids have in High School, for a school to cancel senior prom because a lesbian couple wants to attend is horrible. Now not only does this poor girl have to be judged for wanting to be herself and go to her senior prom with someone she cares that happens to be of the same sex but now she has to deal with scrutiny from her peers because she is being blamed for their scol prom being canceled. Horrible!!
Read the following article we received from the associate press.

JACKSON, Miss. – An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student whose school district canceled her senior prom rather than allow her to escort her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo said she got some unfriendly looks from classmates when she reluctantly returned to campus Thursday.

Constance McMillen said she didn’t want to go back the day after the Itawamba County school board’s decision, but her father told her she needed to face her classmates, teachers and school officials.

“My daddy told me that I needed to show them that I’m still proud of who I am,” McMillen told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “The fact that this will help people later on, that’s what’s helping me to go on.”

The district announced Wednesday it wouldn’t host the April 2 prom. The decision came after the American Civil Liberties Union told officials a policy banning same-sex prom dates violated students’ rights. The ACLU said the district not letting McMillen wear a tuxedo violated her free expression rights.

McMillen said she felt some hostility toward her on the Itawamba County Agricultural High School campus.
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