Well, when all was said and done, the ACLU and its allies couldn’t actually force a school in Fulton, Miss., to allow cross-dressing and same-sex dates at the prom.
But they did use the prom case to win something else that may ultimately have more long-term impact: As part of a settlement, the school district will not only have to pay $35,000 and attorneys’ fees, but it will also be forced to implement a homosexual-themed “nondiscrimination” policy. Specifically, the policy will enforce special protections for “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” which can be interpreted to protect things like cross-dressing and boys using girls’ restrooms.
Homosexual activist groups are proclaiming this a precedent-setting victory—celebrating the fact that this makes the Itawamba County School District the first in Mississippi to enforce a policy of this kind.
We can take this as a lesson on the bully tactics of the left. Though the ACLU and homosexual advocacy groups spend a lot of time cloaking their goals with pictures of students they are technically representing—at the end of the day, it’s clear this is really about protecting political agendas, not people. That’s evidenced by the end result of this lawsuit—which had the main effect of forcing a political policy onto a local school district in a conservative community, in a way that clearly violates the wishes of the majority of parents and the student body at large. (Read ACLU Needs to Stop Bullying Our Schools.)
We’ve already been able to document how homosexual-themed “nondiscrimination” policies are used by gay activists to get one-sided messages into classrooms. These messages often are sexually graphic and put the school in jeopardy of violating religious freedoms. Read more about that here and here.
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