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IStoleYourPope · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Massachusetts

That whole story is ridiculous. It is not like she was wearing anything even remotely offensive...

And the school should be questioned as to why they require dresses on women that expose there chests, even in some small degree.

--Me

Grengor · Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 460

Could someone do a search and look for updates on that trial? I would be interested if she got her senses together and kicked the school board in the n*ts.

David · Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 12606 Location: Louisiana

Grengor wrote: Could someone do a search and look for updates on that trial? I would be interested if she got her senses together and kicked the school board in the n*ts.

The only thing I could find was that her parents spent 700 dollars for a double page ad in the year book showing her in the photo.Good for her parents.

cool · Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Pennsylvania

Wow, another right wing school board on the loose again. This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while. Let the girl wear what she wants. No one would have really cared until the school board had to go and make a big deal about it. If she's an open lesbian already, who cares?

Then again, with a school board with nut jobs like that, it could've been an attack on her open homosexuality.

RadicalLibertarian · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 63

Something contraversal!!! WE MUST BAN IT BECAUSE WE ARE THE SCHOOL BOARD WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

YourPlace · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 315 Location: Midwest

I was stunned when I heard how ignorant can people be and then you hear something even more outrageous. I heard a story today where a child was suspended from school for one day ..... why you may ask, because the mother would not give the child a disciplinary spanking that the principal was asking for! And the beat goes on ...........

Virail · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

See, this is why I love being Canadian, We only have to deal with this type of stuff in the conservative strongholds (Westren Canada). But still people like that make me wonder if they are even human. Such blind prejudices... ick. It just makes me ill.

Scribbler1 · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:59 am Post subject:

RadicalLibertarian wrote: Something contraversal!!! WE MUST BAN IT BECAUSE WE ARE THE SCHOOL BOARD WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

And that's not all the crap that sneaks in under the media radar regarding schools. Check these links regarding the banning of books (yup, right here in the good ol' USA).

http://links.forbiddenlibrary.com/

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm

http://www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin157.shtml

As for the tux, as a 60's teenager I thought I had seen the last of the outrageous examples of dress codes.

Welcome to the 50's, kiddies, where "family values" isn't just a good idea, IT'S THE LAW!

Snarf · Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 5459

That is sweet. She can borrow my white Jockey briefs any day. Go get 'em.

00timh · Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 13322 Location: upstate NY

Hey, if that is the way she wants to be remembered then fine, whatever, as long as whatever it is does not contain nudity or graphic violent images. There has got to be a certain level of dignaty but her wearing a tux does not step over that line IMO, It figures that when we finally get a conservative school board, they pick the wrong subjects to deal with... :roll:

Gdawg007 · Joined: 06 Jul 2004 Posts: 15319 Location: Albuquerque, NM

learn to swim wrote:
Dress-code or Sexual Discrimination?

Oh my freakin' God. I realize that someone could argue that a guy wearing a dress wouldn't be appropriate, but women can wear men's clothing and do so all the time. A man rarely does unless they are, well, let's say making a statement. In anycase (and yes, it's a double standard) but if she wants to wear a tux, let her.

Black and Gay · Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 50

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a joke. Only whacko christians could come up with this one.

AnOpenMind · Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 443 Location: Atlanta

Direct violation of her 1st amendment rights.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org
'Nuff said.

mwm1331 · Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 2629

What is more concerning to me is that an 18 year old girl thinks she is a lesbian.

F'losrix · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:20 am Post subject:

mwm1331 wrote: What is more concerning to me is that an 18 year old girl thinks she is a lesbian.

Why does that concern you? Why is it that you believe she merely 'thinks' she is a lesbian; you seem unprepared to accept the idea that she 'knows' she's a lesbian?

mwm1331 · Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 2629

Well for one to consider herself a "lesbian" at 18 means she has been sexually active for quite some time now which s disturbing in and of itself. Second To have "come out" at that young of an age I wonder what kind of brain washing her parents and scholl have put her through, finally no one 'is" a lesbain, they choose to live that lifestyle.

F'losrix · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:33 am Post subject:

mwm1331 wrote: Well for one to consider herself a "lesbian" at 18 means she has been sexually active for quite some time now

So you believe that a person cannot know their sexual orientation without sexual experience? Heterosexuals don't know that they're straight until they start having sex?

Quote: Second To have "come out" at that young of an age I wonder what kind of brain washing her parents and scholl have put her through

So your theory is that people become homosexual because their parents or school brainwash them into it? And how did you come to such a conclusion? Did your parents and school brainwash you into becoming a heterosexual?

Quote: finally no one 'is" a lesbain, they choose to live that lifestyle.

How do you know it's a choice? Did you choose to be a heterosexual?

mwm1331 · Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 2629

I know its a choice becuase heterosexualty is the norma state of humanity, I dont have to choose to breath I do have to make a choice to hold my breath.
I don't have to choose to be male I do have to make a choice to undergo a sex change operaton.
You dont have to choose to be what you are, but you do have to choose to deviate from it.
Heterosexualty is natural, homosexulity is a deviatian.

F'losrix · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:49 am Post subject:

mwm1331 wrote: I know its a choice becuase heterosexualty is the norma state of humanity

Just because heterosexuality is the 'norm', that doesn't prove that homosexuality is a choice.

Quote: I dont have to choose to breath I do have to make a choice to hold my breath.

Breathing and sexuality are not comparable. You're grossly oversimplifying the issue.

Quote: I don't have to choose to be male I do have to make a choice to undergo a sex change operaton.

Homosexuality and transsexuality are very different things.

Quote: You dont have to choose to be what you are, but you do have to choose to deviate from it.

But how do you know that homosexuals are deviating from who they are? Is it not possible that for them, heterosexual behavior would be a deviation from the person that they are?

Quote: Heterosexualty is natural, homosexulity is a deviatian.

The fact that something deviates from the 'norm' doesn't automatically qualify it as unnatural.

In fact, deviation from the norm is a natural occurrence.

Static-I · Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

mwm1331 wrote: I know its a choice becuase heterosexualty is the norma state of humanity

How do you define "normal?" Point being, you cannot prove that heterosexuality is the "norm" anymore than bisexuality or homosexuality.