Did they run out separate drinking fountains?
A group of Indiana-based parents, teens and even a teacher is fighting for a separate “traditional” prom that would ban gay students.[snip]
Medley was just one of several parents, students and others who reportedly met Feb. 10 at the Sullivan First Christian Church demanding that gay students be barred from attending the dance. “We want to make the public see that we love the homosexuals, but we don’t think it’s right nor should it be accepted,” one local student is quoted as saying.
And what a great way to show you love! We love you so much we’re going to exclude you. The world could do without much of that kind of love.
Dan Savage has some choice words for Medley and her fellow travelers:
Let’s pause here to grieve for all the special education students in Sullivan, Indiana. Students with learning disabilities have it hard enough without getting stuck with a mentally challenged special ed teacher.
You know else has it hard enough? I imagine queer kids growing up in Sullivan, Indiana, population 4,249, have it hard enough without having to watch shit like this on the evening news.
The anti-gay haters at Sullivan High have a facebook page: 2013 Sullivan Traditional Prom. One of the organizers of this hate group would like us to know that “this is not a hate group.” 2013 Sullivan Traditional Prom is just a group that has been organized with the sole purpose of creating an alternate prom that excludes gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students and to achieve that end the group’s members are calling LGBT kids “offensive,” sick, and sinful. What’s hateful about that? Besides, you know, everything?
There’s no way to stop the haters at Sullivan High School from holding an independent prom for the
specialbigoted kids. But here’s what we can do: we can make a noise so loud enough that all the queer kids at Sullivan High School hear it. Those kids need to know that there are people—a lot of people—who think this shit is wrong.
This shit is wrong.
#1 by Larry Bergan on February 12, 2013 - 2:02 am
The world is probably populated enough at the time.
We all love to look at the beautiful children, and there will always be plenty of them; no-matter what we do.
Can’t we just leave it at that and leave the gays alone.
#2 by Glenden Brown on February 12, 2013 - 8:35 am
Larry – FWIW, it seems the idea blew up in the organizers faces to such an extent that they’ve all but abandoned the idea.
It’s important to note that the official school prom is and always was open to all couples, this was organized as an alternative prom.
#3 by brewski on February 12, 2013 - 10:23 am
Did Judge Memorial allow gay couples at its prom? Or is Judge Memorial a hate-group?
#4 by Cliff on February 12, 2013 - 10:33 am
Brewski, When you are not badgering us personally with clever innuendo from behind your mask of anonymity, do you ever find time to contribute something, anything to society?
#5 by brewski on February 12, 2013 - 12:23 pm
Coming from the man (and I use that term generously) who told me to go suck his donkey cock, I find that comment entertaining.
#6 by Larry Bergan on February 12, 2013 - 6:54 pm
PBS’s recent documentary about Oscar Hammerstein II, showed what a great social liberal he was. The presentation could never have been shown on “regular” television.
It’s amazing that a movie – South Pacific – could show up on American theater screens and be so absolutely accepted by our people so soon after the war, with themes that embraced Asians.
I would point to “The Green Zone” as a similarly sympathetic film, which wasn’t a musical, and wasn’t the blockbuster that “South Pacific” was, but portrays the – so called – terrorists as humans; just like us.
Damn today’s media heads for forcing their reporters to divide us.
The only people who should be exposed for who they are, are racists and hypocrites. I thank Dan Savage and Barny Frank for, aggressively doing that.
#7 by Glenden Brown on February 13, 2013 - 2:18 pm
Larry – I don’t know if it was the recent one on PBS or an older PBS show about musicals, but they talked about South Pacific and pointed out that for American liberals of all races in the 40s and 50s, there was a keen awareness that as a nation we absolutely needed to deal with racism.