Chickenshit Capital of the United States

[jamesq]

Remember Constance McMillen, the lesbian senior who wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom and ended up showing the world what a bunch of backwards hillbillies the Itawamba County School Board is?

Turns out the prom was a few days ago and seven kids showed up, plus Ms. McMillen and her date. The rest of the kids were at the double-secret-no-homos-allowed prom put on by the ever-tolerant parents of Fulton Mississippi.

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

Anyway, the Itawamba County School District has won and excluded Ms. McMillen. They get to continue to be an insular little backwater and no one's going to make them abide by new fangled ideas like equal rights, common decency or just not being an asshat.

Ms. McMillen will just have to accept that she's lost and will have to leave town to spend her 30k scholarship to a post-secondary institute in a more enlightened area. She'll have to suffer with the knowledge that she stood up against bigotry, fought the good fight and has the opportunity for a fulfilling life in the greater world outside hickville. What a nightmare.

Oh wait, it sounds like the Itawamba County School District actually only won the battle but Ms. McMillen won the war.

Anyway, looks like Fulton is going to go down as Chickenshit Capital of the United States. Plus the ACLU will be giving them a well-deserved public spanking.

Comments

[missymorgan1.livejournal.com]

We should invite her to spend that scholarship here in Canada.

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

seconded! Good call.

[jamesq]

This way we can spread Western Egalitarian thinking to America! Brilliant!

[missymorgan1.livejournal.com]

It's a little disconcerting to think that Alberta would - if the US only understood it really - a hotbed of politically correct socialism...