Hear the Republicans screeching about States Rights! today States Rights tomorrow! States Rights forever? Hear the Tea Party gang screaming the same thing? Hear them both in their constant attacks on the BIG GOVERNMENT, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE EVIL GOVERNMENT? Well here is what that is all about…
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI – A 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 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 Constance McMillen, 18, to escort her
girlfriend, who is also a student, to the April dance. Instead, the
school board met and issued a statement saying 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.” Prom canceled rather than allowing lesbians to attend