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On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:26:51 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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So, you're the one who gets to define normal? I don't think so.



As an attorney, I would think you would agree that the appropriate way to
have dealt with this situation would have been to petition the district
school committee to revise their policy *before* the prom was scheduled.

so if they'd said only white couples could attend, the way to change
this is 'through channels'?

i dont THINK so...

In a culture based on the rule of laws, it seems that now-a-days adherence
to existing laws or rules is
optional.


how about jim crow laws? should we have obeyed them or protested them
and disobeyed them?


Laws and the social acceptance of them are two different things.
If the laws are outdated, unenforceable or just plain wrong, there is a
legal process
available to change them. Inviting or risking conflict and violence is not
the means.

Eisboch

On 3/12/10 6:33 AM, Eisboch wrote:
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:26:51 -0500, wrote:


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So, you're the one who gets to define normal? I don't think so.



As an attorney, I would think you would agree that the appropriate way to
have dealt with this situation would have been to petition the district
school committee to revise their policy *before* the prom was scheduled.

so if they'd said only white couples could attend, the way to change
this is 'through channels'?

i dont THINK so...

In a culture based on the rule of laws, it seems that now-a-days adherence
to existing laws or rules is
optional.


how about jim crow laws? should we have obeyed them or protested them
and disobeyed them?


Laws and the social acceptance of them are two different things.
If the laws are outdated, unenforceable or just plain wrong, there is a
legal process
available to change them. Inviting or risking conflict and violence is not
the means.

Eisboch





That's just plain silly, richard. I can think of a number of instances
in which demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, got unjust laws or
policies changed. I'm aure you can, too. Conflict can speed along the
process.



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That's just plain silly, richard. I can think of a number of instances in
which demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, got unjust laws or policies
changed. I'm aure you can, too. Conflict can speed along the process.



Not silly at all. I can think of demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise
that have resulted
in people killed or in the hospital. A high school prom isn't worth the
risk.

Eisboch

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"HK" wrote in message
m...

That's just plain silly, richard. I can think of a number of instances in
which demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, got unjust laws or policies
changed. I'm aure you can, too. Conflict can speed along the process.



Not silly at all. I can think of demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise
that have resulted
in people killed or in the hospital. A high school prom isn't worth the
risk.

How did she die? The police put down a riot at the high school because
of a question about who you could bring as your date to the prom.

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In article ,
says...

"HK" wrote in message
m...

That's just plain silly, richard. I can think of a number of instances
in
which demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, got unjust laws or
policies
changed. I'm aure you can, too. Conflict can speed along the process.



Not silly at all. I can think of demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise
that have resulted
in people killed or in the hospital. A high school prom isn't worth the
risk.

How did she die? The police put down a riot at the high school because
of a question about who you could bring as your date to the prom.

???

Eisboch

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:33:10 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
m...

That's just plain silly, richard. I can think of a number of instances in
which demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, got unjust laws or policies
changed. I'm aure you can, too. Conflict can speed along the process.



Not silly at all. I can think of demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise
that have resulted
in people killed or in the hospital. A high school prom isn't worth the
risk.

Eisboch

They should have designated it as a Sock Hop. Hell's Fire, many of the
girls danced together years ago and it was ignored.

We have fell into a "Stupidity Pit" and some think is is normal.

Let's break out the National Guard and have them stand guard to enforce
"Christian Values".

Damn that's already been done also. To think they shot a Southern Governor
and bought him a wheel chair over dumb **** such as this.

On 3/12/10 11:13 AM, your kind of guy wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:33:10 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


wrote in message
m...

That's just plain silly, richard. I can think of a number of instances in
which demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, got unjust laws or policies
changed. I'm aure you can, too. Conflict can speed along the process.



Not silly at all. I can think of demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise
that have resulted
in people killed or in the hospital. A high school prom isn't worth the
risk.

Eisboch

They should have designated it as a Sock Hop. Hell's Fire, many of the
girls danced together years ago and it was ignored.

We have fell into a "Stupidity Pit" and some think is is normal.

Let's break out the National Guard and have them stand guard to enforce
"Christian Values".

Damn that's already been done also. To think they shot a Southern Governor
and bought him a wheel chair over dumb **** such as this.




What "they" should do is get governmental agencies out of the business
of determining what is right or wrong in gender preferences. There
are lots of serious issues needing attention. Who someone dates, or if
adults, sleeps with or marries, is not the business of government.

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"HK" wrote in message
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What "they" should do is get governmental agencies out of the business of
determining what is right or wrong in gender preferences. There are
lots of serious issues needing attention. Who someone dates, or if adults,
sleeps with or marries, is not the business of government.

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I don't equate a local school committee as being big "government".
It's likely a 50 year old policy that nobody has challenged or even thought
about before.

On 3/12/10 11:35 AM, Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
m...


What "they" should do is get governmental agencies out of the business
of determining what is right or wrong in gender preferences. There
are lots of serious issues needing attention. Who someone dates, or if
adults, sleeps with or marries, is not the business of government.

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I don't equate a local school committee as being big "government".
It's likely a 50 year old policy that nobody has challenged or even
thought about before.


Government is government.

My junior year in high school, my best friend and I wrote a letter that
was published in the Register in which we griped at length at the dress
code that *required* that boys wear ties to class, *even* when the
classroom temps were in the 80's...we had no a/c in our high school.
We started a protest and a week later, on a Tuesday, *every single male*
in the school refused to enter the building unless the tie rule was
rescinded. The principal went ape****, but in the end, he gave in. He
gave me a hard time my entire senior year, though. It was worth it.

There is no reason for that mississippi school system to deny a prom to
gay or lesbian couples. The system rightfully could impose and enforce a
rule against alcoholic beverages.


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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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What "they" should do is get governmental agencies out of the business of
determining what is right or wrong in gender preferences. There are
lots of serious issues needing attention. Who someone dates, or if
adults, sleeps with or marries, is not the business of government.

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I don't equate a local school committee as being big "government".
It's likely a 50 year old policy that nobody has challenged or even
thought about before.


It's about time.

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