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The parents are teaching their children that its perfectly fine to discriminate against someone as long as you have the money to do so.

It's not even about who has money. They are teaching their kids that you can invite and not invite whoever you want as long as you are footing the bill, regardless of it's chips and dip or champagne and a house band.

The reaction of those around them will teach them to alter their guest lists.

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Did I say I had a problem with it?

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McMillen went to the Itawamba Agricultural High School prom at the Fulton Country Club, but she was one of the few to attend the event. McMillen said she arrived at the dance an hour-and-a-half after it began and stayed for about 30 minutes. She said she saw six other students and several school officials while she was there.

Meanwhile, many more Itawamba AHS students went to an event held at the community center in Evergreen, another community in Itawamba County. McMillen said she knew about that event but that when she asked another student if she was invited, the student told her, “the prom is at the country club.”

“I took that as no,” McMillen said. “If I wasn’t wanted there, I wasn’t going to go.”

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At a hearing on a preliminary injunction filed by the ACLU, Senior U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson ruled that the district had violated McMillen’s First Amendment rights but that it shouldn’t be forced to sponsor a prom since a group of parents had already agreed to hold an event that would be “open to all IAHS students.”

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Last Monday night, those parents announced they would no longer host that prom. On Tuesday afternoon, school district attorney Michele Floyd said a private prom would be held at the Fulton Country Club, although the exact sponsorship of that event remains a mystery.

Kristy Bennett, legal director for the ACLU of Mississippi, said her organization was still gathering details about what happened Friday night to determine whether they would ask Davidson for sanctions.

At the least, Bennett said the details about Friday’s prom would be used in the organization’s damages suit against the district, which is still being developed.

“We are disappointed at the sparse attendance, and we’re looking further into the situation,” Bennett said.

“Whatever we find will be brought to the court’s attention, whether it is in the damages trial, or whatever. There will still be a trial on the merits. The case didn’t end in the preliminary hearing.”

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The parents are teaching their children that its perfectly fine to discriminate against someone

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I honestly want to know what they thought the worst-case situation would have been if they had allowed her to attend with her girlfriend. If they felt the two girls were in danger, then they clearly failed to prepare their students for the real world where they will encounter gays and lesbians. If they wanted to avoid disruption, I'd say canceling prom is about the dumbest thing they could have done. Right or wrong, my friends and I eagerly looked forward to prom and would have been devastated at it's cancellation.

Now it seems to be a snowball of good intentions, bad results.