Monday, May 03, 2010

The Earth Stopped Over The Weekend… Did You Feel It?

In New Jersey a boy went crossdressed to his senior prom and you know what? Nothing happened. The earth didn’t stop revolving around the sun, the sun rose the next day and New Jersey didn’t slide into the Atlantic!
Cross-Dressing Teen Sparks Prom Debate In NJ

CAPE MAY, N.J. (CBS 3) ―

A New Jersey student, who is a cross-dresser, spoke to Eyewitness News about his fight to go to the prom in a knee-length black dress and heels.

Lutz had no worries until he was told Thursday that wearing the dress to the prom would violate the school's dress code.

"I was asked to go to the principal's office," Lutz said. "Basically, he just said I couldn't wear a dress to prom."

In the meantime, his friends started a petition and collected more than 600 signatures. Hundreds more joined a Facebook page created and titled: "Let Derrek Lutz Wear A Dress To Prom."

In response, the school's principal told Eyewitness News: "There was a discussion between the principal and a student. That discussion was taken to other parties in the district and the issue was resolved."
Now contrast that with what happened in Fulton Mississippi in April, when a lesbian wanted to bring her girlfriend to the Itawamba Agricultural High School prom. It took a court order to allow them to attend the prom. The students then held a secret prom, the girls were the only ones beside special needs students at the official prom and everyone else attended the secret prom. But that was the first time that school system did something like that, they did the same thing back in the sixties when integrated, the white students held secret prom parties and didn’t invite the blacks students.

Which school system taught a better civics lesson to their students?

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