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I’m not talking about bans on weapons or local chapters of al-Qaida. In Copiah County, the public school system forbade a gay female student from wearing a tuxedo in her senior yearbook photo.
“The way we’ve always done it” must be that boys wear tuxes and girls wear those lovely draped things, sometimes with a little shoulder showing.
Now, it looks like the schools superintendent wants to take it all the way legally
You’ve got to wonder about a drawn-out fuss, even if they claim they have a legal precedent to back them up.
A young lawyer I know asks two very good questions:
- Is this a battle worth fighting?
- Is this a fight that can be won?
If you answer “no” to either one, it’s worth a re-think.
But when both questions get “no,” what kind of crazy place is that to put yourself?
Copiah guy, this is a yearbook, not the U.S. Army. Uniform dress by sex makes for an appealing look, but it’s hardly worth spending money in court.
Back in my McComb High days, we just used those always lovely, regular school photos. Remember back in the ’60s when in-authority adults got all worked up about Beatles haircuts? Or when guys peroxided the front of their hair?
I remember the day when Ole Miss female students had a 10:30 weeknight curfew and couldn’t wear slacks or jeans on campus, unless they were art students.
I’ve often thought that senior dress-up requirement had more to do with making money for a professional photographer than anything else. Even if that’s the case in Copiah County, the young woman is hardly rabble-rousing. She’s wearing an approved garment. The yearbook gets her photo in accordance with its dress policy, and the pro photog makes money, if her mom wants to purchase prints. In this case, The New York Times may want some.
If I were her classmate, it would make me get my photo re-taken in the sex-approved drape but with blue hair.
About a decade ago, my son’s yearbook adviser called me, furious that he had “ruined” the Brandon annual. My God, I thought, has he set fire to the layouts or something? No, she said, he gave her another middle name for himself instead of his real one, a family name he wasn’t overly happy with at age 17.
Really? I inquired.
Yes, and it had “ruined” the full-color senior section of the book, she repeated, as well as the hallowed composite. Seems he had decided to ensure his immortality in the annals of annuals by inserting the name of his favorite wrestler – Goldberg – where his real middle name should have been. The earth did not stop rotating on its axis because of the joke, and Copiah County will continue to exist, despite a gay young woman’s decision to suit herself rather than others.
Folks, get over it.
Contact Patsy R. Brumfield at (662) 678-1596 or patsy.brumfield@djournal.com. Read Patsy’s blog, From the Front Row, on NEMS360.com.
Stop the State and Federal monies to the school system.
They have no right to discriminate agaist gays/lesbians or race etc.
All who agree ought to flood President Obamas with your opinions on this. And all the media outlets.
It is simply discrimination and the school system is teaching it.
I guess Al Gore told you that the polar cap is melting? Have you been there??? I thought not!!
I also have no idea what you have or have not caught. I have not caught the swine flu but I do not want to be exposed.
I do want the polar bears protected because they were put on earth to make me a fur coat.
Global warming is an Al Gore religion and he has made millions parading arround in his private jet while trying to force me to drive a tin can.
As usual, I just want to share my thoughts with intelligent folks who can make up their own minds about whether they want to catch "GAY'.
They believe in anything that takes GOD out of schools and our America.
The real problem in our society are those that would laugh when their children lie and disobey school policy just to make a statement.
It is creepy, but true "gay is catching". Gays cannot naturally reproduce, so how come there are so many of them??
I thought schools were supposed to have rules and regulations designed to make better citizens, not to encourage perverted ideas.
It seems many journalist and some other folks just bloviate to be provocative.
It was my understanding that the dress policy was specific to gender in its requirements. I do not have a copy of their policy, and couldn't find one on the net, but if the policy is that way then "she" could not have possibly been wearing an "approved" garment....
Either way....what's next? You want the school to change out every door knob because one student only wants to open doors with triangular shaped knobs?
This is ridiculous...I'm glad the school is standing their ground!!!!
Just look at the progress we have made since we got so politically correct.
We should all just forget our morals and traditions and give the radicals and rebel rousers all the publicity they desire.
A high school lesbian? COME ON
I think moral folks are nt quite ready to GET OVER IT!!!
Why not write something sensible and try to get over being the opiate for the jackasses