Constance McMillen

HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS have found another field of potential conquest: the senior prom. And, they have found a small number of high school students who are willing pawns. But, as a commenter mentions below, perhaps the entire prom tradition should be retired. It’s become a night of excessive excess. 

The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi recently sued a school for not allowing same-sex couples to attend its prom. Now that the school has canceled the event, the ACLU, on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, is suing to have it reinstated. All so a confused girl can take another confused girl to the dance. 

This is yet another example of how liberals openly exploit the young. One of the obvious results of this will be to taint the innocent dancing girls often do with each other when there are not enough boys who will take to the floor. Now there will be sexual connotations to girls dancing with girls. Of course, that’s the least of the damage. The real disaster is the encouragement of lesbianism.

Laurence B. writes:

It’s certainly true that activists are taking advantage of high school students. Also, often times high schools, even private institutions (often Jesuit) take advantage of their students and try to make activists out of them. There was a similar tiff seven years ago at my high school, which was an all-boys Jesuit academy (a very ostentatious affair) and, predictably, two boys wanted to attend the prom together, openly, and unabashedly.

I should first explain that we were situated next to a similarly oriented all-girls school (which, despite, its extravagances and bawdiness, never performed as well as my school) with which we would coordinate a prom. Admission, which was prohibitively expensive, was granted at the door to couples of the opposite sex. Instead of just entering with a female friend, these two boys insisted that they be allowed to enter together, presumably so we could all see how unabashedly not-heterosexual they were. Before this made it to the courts, one of the two boys flunked out of school and nothing came of it, but I imagine that, because this nominally Catholic school held mandatory seminars on open borders, abolition of the death penalty, and a scientific encouragement towards open sexuality, it would’ve accommodated the budding homosexuals.

That all being said, I’ve never found proms to be particularly special, enjoyable, or necessary to the high school experience. In fact, what was once a nice evening and perhaps a structured prognostication for near-graduates of temperate, elegant, and well-mannered adult behavior has turned into an isolated case study of the cultural debauchery actively promoted amongst today’s youth. Without it becoming a school policy, I can’t see a prom which accepted homosexual couples as really much more opprobrious than what is already being promulgated.

The formal affair of Prom itself has become little more than a traditional photo opportunity before adolescents imbibe and indulge in frivolous behavior. I guess that if that behavior was homosexual, it would be worse, but addressing that aspect alone pays inadequate attention to the farce of prom night in general. (And no, I’m not complaining because I couldn’t get a date).

Mabel LeBeau writes:

Even if the event may still be ‘necessary’ in this day and age as a publicly sanctioned ‘coming of age’ event, it is not mandatory. In my area of the country, local cities promote Prom Dress Exchange for those without access to beautiful gowns. Local schools are heavily involved in planning the event, organizing ‘after prom events’ and encouraging student-body participation. Still, there remains that ‘boy asks girl’ routine or some permutation, ‘girl goes alone’ or ‘guy goes alone’, etc. as customary with a formal dance. Until the day arises that a prom is is no longer a ‘formal dance’ as part of the required cultural experience of every red-blooded American boy and girl, i.e. no longer a part of the American traditional high school curriculum, there will be room to clamor for ACLU grievance redress as part of an accepted ‘cultural’ tradition and a school event.

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