{"id":7614,"date":"2010-03-12T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/12\/teh-gay-ruins-mississippi-prom\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:52:11","slug":"teh-gay-ruins-mississippi-prom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/teh-gay-ruins-mississippi-prom\/","title":{"rendered":"Teh Gay Ruins Mississippi Prom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lesbian student wanted to wear a tuxedo and accompany her girlfriend to the prom in a Northern Mississippi school district.  Chaos ensued.  It turns out that Itawamba County school district has an explicit policy requiring that senior prom dates be of the opposite sex.  (This is the same school  district that got in trouble some years back for intercom-led prayer and bible sessions.)<\/p>\n<p>The AClU dove in.  The school district canceled the prom but refuses to say exactly why.<\/p>\n<p>So, look for a private non-school related anti-gay prom-like &#8220;event&#8221; to occur in Itawamba County this spring.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is our hope that private citizens will organize an event for the juniors and seniors,&#8221; district officials said in the statement. &#8220;However, at this time, we feel that it is in the best interest of the Itawamba County School District, after taking into consideration the education, safety and well being of our students.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wirestory?id=10067417&#038;page=1\"><br \/>\ndetails <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lesbian student wanted to wear a tuxedo and accompany her girlfriend to the prom in a Northern Mississippi school district. Chaos ensued. It turns out that Itawamba County school district has an explicit policy requiring that senior prom dates be of the opposite sex. (This is the same school district that got in trouble &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/teh-gay-ruins-mississippi-prom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teh Gay Ruins Mississippi Prom<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1YO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}