# US school cancels prom to avoid lesbian student bringing a date **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108 "2010-03-11T15:28:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/21 "2010-03-11T17:13:09Z")
This is old southern hat… like Kopek said they use to do this with interracial dating… heck Cairo Illinois cemented their swimming pools when faced with a court order to desegregate… I’m sure the local country club will have/offer a “private Prom”… I mean its Miss… soon that young lady will smarten up and do what the vast majority of gays and lesbians in ALabama do… move to Atlanta… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/22 "2010-03-11T17:28:08Z")
> [@Juliana](#): > > Damnitall, I love Mississippi, but there are parts of the state that have gotta come into the 21st century. Or at least the 20th. The school district is keeping its head down but I’m sure they are happy to let their constituents and students blame the ACLU for everything. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/23 "2010-03-11T17:59:27Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Which makes me wonder what the “educational process” of a prom might have been. Wait, prom is like the practical for the sex-education class, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/24 "2010-03-11T18:04:14Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > I’m sure someone in the neighborhood has a barn or something that could be used for the dance if the school won’t sponsor it. Of course, if they do that then John Lithgow might show up and try to ruin it for everyone. I’m quite certain that this will be the case. They are probably planning on holding a separate prom sponsored by and possibly held at a local church. The ACLU can’t touch a church for practicing their faith. As long as it isn’t in any way coordinated advertised or sanctioned by the school, I don’t think they can do anything. I’ll bet some school officials are even affiliated with the church and had some knowledge of how it would work out before they actually canceled it. Even if that advanced knowledge would demonstrate coordination, the ACLU would have to prove it. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/25 "2010-03-11T18:10:53Z")
(Heads spins) Are people still this backward? Plenty of same-sex couples went to my prom, and every other school dance, and nobody batted an eyelash. Then again, I went to high school in Los Angeles. But still, this is years later, and so you’d think… right? That even if there were some leftover cranky old men, grumbling under their breath about coloreds and queers, current generations would allow people to go to prom with whoever they wanted? I mean, this is a school dance we’re talking about here, not something gods-endorsed like marriage. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/26 "2010-03-11T18:12:58Z")
I heard that some fans are asking Ellen DeGeneres to organize a queer-friendly prom. Anyway, this is why when Marc Hall successfully sued a Catholic (government-funded) school board in Ontario to allow him to go to prom with his boyfriend, the judge took the precaution of enjoining the school board from cancelling the prom in the mean time. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/27 "2010-03-11T18:14:16Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Cancel the entire prom?! How 20th century. They should be burning her and her girlfriend at the stake like they used to… _at_ the prom. > > Jesus loves a good stake-burnin’. > [@cmyk](#): > > Lightweight… everyone wants to be blue in Candyland? Stake burning. That’s your answer to everything, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/28 "2010-03-11T18:35:53Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Cancel the entire prom?! How 20th century. They should be burning her and her girlfriend at the stake like they used to… _at_ the prom. > > Jesus loves a good stake-burnin’. Pussy. I say we nuke them all from orbit. > [@](#): > > everyone wants to be blue in Candyland? Stake burning. But then they’ll argue about who gets which stake, and _then_ what will you do? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/29 "2010-03-11T18:37:41Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Maybe they were just concerned about the effects of second-hand lesbianism. I’ve seen videos of that…it’s _hot._ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/30 "2010-03-11T18:40:21Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > That’s your answer to everything, isn’t it? Well, yuuh! Now help me gather some dry sticks… ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/31 "2010-03-11T18:42:14Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > Pussy. I say we nuke them all from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/32 "2010-03-11T18:45:51Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > Pussy. I say we nuke them all from orbit. > > But then they’ll argue about who gets which stake, and _then_ what will you do? The only thing you can do at that point: Napalm. (It’s the only way to be sure.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/33 "2010-03-11T18:49:09Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve seen videos of that…it’s hot. People don’t realize how easily lesbianism can be spread. I know everytime I see two lesbians making out, I start wanting to have sex with women too. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/34 "2010-03-11T18:52:31Z")
“Mississippi - Making Utah look good since 1869.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/35 "2010-03-11T18:58:42Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > I’m quite certain that this will be the case. They are probably planning on holding a separate prom sponsored by and possibly held at a local church. The ACLU can’t touch a church for practicing their faith. As long as it isn’t in any way coordinated advertised or sanctioned by the school, I don’t think they can do anything. I’ll bet some school officials are even affiliated with the church and had some knowledge of how it would work out before they actually canceled it. Even if that advanced knowledge would demonstrate coordination, the ACLU would have to prove it. This is exactly what I thought. It reminded me of that one school that has a white only prom elsewhere and only Black people go to the real prom. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/36 "2010-03-11T19:12:08Z")
Cool news: the ACLU has filed a [lawsuit](http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100311/NEWS/100311012/ACLU+sues+school+over+canceled+prom) against the school. And please remember not to paint us all with the same brush. Every state has their idiots: it doesn’t mean that everyone in that state is an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/37 "2010-03-11T19:15:36Z")
> [@Juliana](#): > > Cool news: the ACLU has filed a [lawsuit](http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100311/NEWS/100311012/ACLU+sues+school+over+canceled+prom) against the school. > > And please remember not to paint us all with the same brush. Every state has their idiots: it doesn’t mean that everyone in that state is an idiot. But can we burn the idiots at the stake? Pleeease? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/38 "2010-03-11T19:17:30Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > But can we burn the idiots at the stake? Pleeease? Please do! In fact, I know a few I’d love to shove to the front of the line. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/39 "2010-03-11T19:25:34Z")
We’re gonna need more stakes. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108/40 "2010-03-11T19:28:05Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > We’re gonna need more stakes. How about some steaks, too? If we’re going to have fun, we might as well have a picnic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-school-cancels-prom-to-avoid-lesbian-student-bringing-a-date/532108.md?page=3)