Miss. School Prom Cancelled After Lesbian's Date Request
A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
The Itawamba County school district’s policy requires that senior prom dates be of the opposite sex. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi had given the district until Wednesday to change that policy and allow 18-year-old Constance McMillen to escort her girlfriend, who is also a student, to the dance on April 2.
Instead, the school board met and issued a statement announcing it wouldn’t host the event at Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Fulton, ”due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events.”
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This is why I’m proud to be a Mississippian.
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WTF?!
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I live a little over an hour away and these people are so stupid.
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