Well Itawamba Agricultural High School you blew it this time! Seems you didn’t make the right choice now did you, or did you?
The brouhaha that has been stirred up over the school’s choice to cancel their prom instead of allowing a lesbian student to bring her same-sex date (and wear a tuxedo) to the prom was inevitable. The gay and lesbian communities are up in arms at such discrimination. Of course, let us not forget that bastion of rights protectors, the ACLU, who have now filed suit to force the issue to be decided on behalf of the student.
When this issue came up to school officials in the first place they should have known they had two possible choices, and that neither would be without controversy. So they weren’t going to get out of this quietly in all likelihood. The schools could have acquiesced and changed their rules or make the choice to cancel the event.
Now while canceling the event has brought national attention on the school, had they given in and changed their rules to accommodate the student the attention the school drew may well have been much more localized. Either way the school was going to really anger some group. The question was whether the school stood by their set standards or not.
Since the school did stand by their set standards, they made the only reasonable choice they could – cancel the prom. While they ACLU and gay/lesbian movements call this discrimination I don’t see why it is. They are excluding everyone from attending by not having the event. The reasoning for the cancellation is a reflection of the community views, through the school. If something should change it should be done through the process of action by the school board and the community, not the courts in this particular case.
It use to be a reasonable standard that if you refused to accommodate one you shouldn’t accommodate anyone was a proper choice, albeit not necessarily a popular one. Not anymore it seems.
So Itawamba, you lose – no matter what choice you make.
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