Samson, our intrinsic differences lie in the fact that you view gay people doing this as a "choice" I see.
There's really no reconciliation to be had here, and I can understand if you truly believe homosexuality is a choice how you could believe that.
However, I know you are very logical, and despite our disagreements we do have to come to the following conclusions:
1. The school was involved with using taxpayer funds to discriminate based on gender. Not sex, but the gender. This is illegal. Had the parents started with a private and public prom it would have been different, but the initial prom was scrapped and then a poorly, reinstated version was constructed. Once again, even if you don't like homosexuality, I can't really see how one could reconcile the freedoms provide in our constitution with a ruling like this.
2. Reports are varied on whether the school was involved with the private prom or not. Whether this is true or not is beyond me, but the school was involved in discriminating against mentally handicapped kids here too. This is the larger problem to me. Sure some people in Miss. may think homosexuality is a choice, but surely they didn't think that mental disorders were too? Why were the mentally disorder kids diverted there?
WE can have our differences samson, but I don't think we should jump the gun on deciding whether the private prom was moral or not. Like I said dude, I'm not even trying to argue the moral side. I don't really "approve" of homosexuality, especially being a former Southern Baptist christian, but I've come to slowly start defeating my societal basis. As a black man, discriminating against others to me is tantamount to hypocrisy, so maybe we'll just have to agree to have fundamental differences about this one mate.
I'm actually relatively satisfied at how this thread has progressed though, solid discussion without too much nonsensical stuff.
There's really no reconciliation to be had here, and I can understand if you truly believe homosexuality is a choice how you could believe that.
However, I know you are very logical, and despite our disagreements we do have to come to the following conclusions:
1. The school was involved with using taxpayer funds to discriminate based on gender. Not sex, but the gender. This is illegal. Had the parents started with a private and public prom it would have been different, but the initial prom was scrapped and then a poorly, reinstated version was constructed. Once again, even if you don't like homosexuality, I can't really see how one could reconcile the freedoms provide in our constitution with a ruling like this.
2. Reports are varied on whether the school was involved with the private prom or not. Whether this is true or not is beyond me, but the school was involved in discriminating against mentally handicapped kids here too. This is the larger problem to me. Sure some people in Miss. may think homosexuality is a choice, but surely they didn't think that mental disorders were too? Why were the mentally disorder kids diverted there?
WE can have our differences samson, but I don't think we should jump the gun on deciding whether the private prom was moral or not. Like I said dude, I'm not even trying to argue the moral side. I don't really "approve" of homosexuality, especially being a former Southern Baptist christian, but I've come to slowly start defeating my societal basis. As a black man, discriminating against others to me is tantamount to hypocrisy, so maybe we'll just have to agree to have fundamental differences about this one mate.
I'm actually relatively satisfied at how this thread has progressed though, solid discussion without too much nonsensical stuff.