The unmasking of yet another homophobe hypocrite minister made me think back to the good Christian state of Mississippi. A couple of months ago, I wrote about Constance MacMillen, the lesbian teenager who wanted to attend her school prom in Fulton, Mississippi. Her school had canceled the prom, but after a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, there was an agreement that Constance could attend the private prom.
It turns out that parents and students decided to hold two proms. Constance was invited to only one of them, along with 7 other students, including two with learning disabilities. As has been the case throughout this mess, Constance showed far more class than the adults in her backwater ville:
“They had the time of their lives,” McMillen says. “That’s the one good thing that come out of this, [these kids] didn’t have to worry about people making fun of them [at their prom].”
Meanwhile, in Wesson, Mississippi, Ceara Sturgis, a lesbian senior, tried to have her picture included in the yearbook. Since she was wearing a tuxedo, the administration at the Wesson Attendance Center decided to not only refuse to print the picture, but also erased her name from the pages of seniors graduating from that august institution of learning. Of course, this being Mississippi, the senior section did include a kid who had already dropped out of school.
Both of these young women have supportive families who were willing to go to bat for them. I wonder about the many who don’t, some of whom end up as suicides, runaways or both. Those kids never seem to be mentioned by Baptist minister compatriots of John Dobson who prefer their rent boys with a “perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)”.