Personally i agree with the school because i feel she was trying to go into a community where she knows moral convictions are against her lifestyle, and force them not only to admit her but to accept it as normal, essentially spiting in the face of the values of the community.
Yes, how dare she expect to be an actual member of the community, rather than sitting on the fring because she's not like everyone else. And how dare she think that she deserves to take the person she wants to the prom like everyone else.
She had no regard for their feelings on the issue.
Yes, she's the inconsiderate one, and not the faculty that is setting her up for intense retaliation.
Its like sticking your nose some place it doesn't belong.
She's a student in the school. She's in the appropriate class. How does her nose not belong?
Its sort of like a white supremacist going to a Harlem school demanding to wear a shirt with the confederate flag on it and swastikas, and then demanding he be allowed to do that every day, essentially saying "learn to live with it".
First, huge difference. One is implicitly, intentionally offensive. The other is simply dressing against the norm, and going to a party with a person you love. One is a conscious choice, aimed directly to cause distress in others, no more, no less. The other...let's face it. It's not the fact that she's going to the prom with a girl. It's the fact that she's a lesbian, period.
People can always move, why do they have to force people to throw away their values and adopt theirs?
Who's making them throw away their values. No one's saying they have to LIKE it. They are saying that the school has no right to discriminate against her on the basis of her sexuality.
I won't expand on why i agree with the school other than i have my own reasons as well, so as not to get flammed here.
Good luck with that.
Look, the thing is, I can understand them disapproving of her choice. I can understand them trying to convince her not to do it, even. I can even, in it's own, warped way, understand them disallowing her from coming...I wouldn't agree with it, but I could understand. However, when they cancel the entire Prom, PURELY on the basis of a lesbian bringing her girlfriend, and wearing a tuxedo, it crosses a big line. You are now, unabashedly, turning the student body against the girl, and effectively trying to drive her off, and endangering her wellbeing. This is not disagreeing with her lifestyle. This is them using their power to harm this girl, straight up.
