Thursday, April 29, 2010

Mississippi Is Anti-Tuxedo......If You're A Lesbian


Mississippi will never learn.

They tried to keep Constance McMillen from the prom for many things, including wearing a tuxedo, and now another school in Mississippi has removed a photo of a lesbian student for the same reason.

Tuxedo.

Mississippi high school senior Ceara Sturgis opened her yearbook last Friday to find that her photo, in which she wears a tuxedo, was not included; worse yet, was that her name was not included in the names of the senior class. All because of a tuxedo.

Sturgis, a student at Wesson Attendance Center, and her mother, Veronica Rodriguez, fought school officials last fall when they first rejected the photo of a tuxedo-clad Sturgis. The ACLU wrote a letter demanding officials use Sturgis' submitted photo in the yearbook, but Copiah County School District officials refused.

Veronica Rodriguez said she expected the yearbook to at least contain a reference to her daughter on the senior page, but discovered that the school had refused to acknowledge her entirely.

The Copiah County School District maintains that its decision not to run the photo is based on federal legal precedent.

Oh, you mean the federal legal precedent that says girls can't wear tuxedos in their yearbook pictures in bassackwards states like Mississippi where redneckedness, bigotry, homophobia, racism, and just plain stupidity are the law of the land.

That law?

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:36 PM

    And the spineless officials were so sure they were legally correct that they never informed the student of their decision? Oh but students who have criminal records were permitted to have their photo, name and accomplishments in the book?

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  2. Anonymous1:46 PM

    Yeah, and I bet if the HOTTEST cheerleader on the squad wore a tux, it wouldn't be a problem. A girl that went to my high school prom (back in 1752)wore a black leather mini-skirt and a tuxedo top. She rocked it! And she went stag because her boyfriend at the time was in the military stationed overseas.

    Oh, the scandal! It was simply delicious!

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  3. So wrong!!!
    The Parisian fashion has women wearing fab tux! I guess Paris France ain't Mississippi huh?!
    anyway;grrr...(your posts makes me grrr-grrr sometimes darling!)

    xo

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  4. Federal?!?! If you ever find out what statute that is let us know. Yearbook committees are a pain - been there, suffered that.

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  5. Is there something in the water down there? Just shameful.
    I can't help but think that the sooner these kids pack up and leave for true freedom, the better off their chances of finding happiness will be.
    I think we need to start a new Underground Railroad.

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  6. It's that damn Marlene Dietrich's fault!

    Seriously, though, what kind of federal precendent could there possibly be for denying the existence of a student? I can see precedent for class photos the school deems obsjectionable (doesn't mean I agree) but to completely erase her? That's despicable.

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