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Comment on Mississippi Dignity Caravan by Paul Overstreet

Paul Overstreet — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:12:53 +0000

I am glad we got someone to do this

If anyone wants to carpool from the Gulf coast area
let me know

I like to go also and we can chip in on gas
Feel free to contact me at 228-831-8152 or 228-297-1664

Comment on Action Alert: Encourage Equality at the Prom by none

none — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:32:39 +0000

The school and the school district has no right to impose religious views on the children. Keep your views to yourself! This is a civil rights issue and you have violated these kids’ rights. A prom should be a happy time for them and an event that they can fondly look back on but your school and school board have taken that away. Shame on you!

Comment on Action Alert: Encourage Equality at the Prom by Dick Hoogendijk

Dick Hoogendijk — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:59:24 +0000

The more I read these kind of articles the more I feel the USA is very narrow-minded. I always felt this country was an example of human rights. The authorities seem to think otherwise. Be it in violating women rights, sexual rights or other. I’m getting prouder and prouder to be living in the Netherlands. Not all of it is OK, but conceirning human rights and freedom of choice, it is.

Comment on ACLU Demands MS School Allow Lesbians to Attend Prom by Olga Johnson

Olga Johnson — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:28:48 +0000

It is unfair to not be able to live in your own skin and be proud of whom you represent. We are in America people, we have a voice, dont silence those whom you don’t agree with, walk beside them, regardless of your indiffences! America is the land of the free! Right!!?

Comment on Action Alert: Encourage Equality at the Prom by Stella Anton

Stella Anton — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:36:46 +0000

As teachers and as school board members, you should be very careful of what you are teaching -you are forming young people’s minds. Is discrimination part of your school’s syllabus?

Comment on Action Alert: Encourage Equality at the Prom by Jeana

Jeana — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:25:22 +0000

There is nothing wrong with this young woman’s choice in her sexuality or her life. There should be no reason for this to happen. When I attended my Senior Prom in high school IN MISSISSIPPI,(86) half of the girls that attended came in Tux’s, and came as a group, or Stag and we all met there. Nothing was said about that there. This has become an issue of her choice in mates/dates, not all about what she is wearing.
The people in the School district and my state have shamed me, and I am embarrassed to see that these people are living in the dark ages. Come on people, get with the program, this is the 21st century, and there are more important things to worry about then a woman’s choices in her dress or mates.
More power to the young woman for standing up for her belief’s and for herself. She is a beautiful young woman and I don’t think this is going to stop her from achieving her future goals!
Bravo!

Comment on Action: Show your support for Ceara by ruthadar

ruthadar — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:13:00 +0000

Dear Mr. Clopton and Mr. Greer,

I’m writing to ask that you reconsider your ruling on the yearbook photo of Ceara Sturgis.

I can certainly understand that you want yearbook photos to be dignified and proper. Were Ms. Sturgis to be photographed in a provocative manner (say, a showgirl costume, or without drapes) I would understand your decision to block the photo.

However, when a young woman chooses the path of wearing clothing that is modest, orderly, and respectful of the institution, I fail to see the difficulty. Yes, a tuxedo is more typically clothing of a man, but many women have worn them in dignified, even iconic roles.

Also, I understand that from your point of view, the photo is provocative, in the sense of provoking comment. I suggest to you that the best way to deal with such things is not to draw attention to them; by making an issue of the photo, you’ve drawn national attention to a matter that you had hoped not even to appear in a school yearbook. Now it’s all over the Internet, and probably People Magazine is next.

Please reconsider. The young woman has chosen to express herself in a harmless manner. You may disagree with her choice, but is making a national issue of it really going to accomplish your desired end? By stepping back, you will make this a non-news item, and really, that’s what it is.

Sincerely yours,

Rabbi Ruth Adar

Comment on Local Gift Ideas from Friendly Businesses by Unity Mississippi

Unity Mississippi — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:23:28 +0000

We’d love to add some more businesses from around the state. If you have a suggestion, leave a comment.

Comment on Action: Show your support for Ceara by speduk8rs

speduk8rs — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:10:45 +0000

I think it is a sin and a shame that we have laws that give us inalible only when higer “authorities” tell us we can’t be ourselves.
Does the principal allow females to wear beads in there hair,colored hair. Citizens of the principal remember _YOU ARE THEIR boss not the other way around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on Action: Show your support for Ceara by Amy Hinton

Amy Hinton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:38:48 +0000

Dear Mr. Clopton:

We the Parents, Friends, and Family of Lesbians and Gays would like to express our concern for your decision to uphold Principal Greer’s decision to not allow Ceara Sturgis’ photo to be placed in the yearbook. It seems this is a right of passage that many thousands of students get to experience in their life. Ceara has attended school and made it to her senior year. A yearbook photo is celebrating and recognizing her achievement to get to this point. Why is there such a problem with her wearing a tuxedo in her picture?

Your decision to uphold Principal Greer’s decision to intervene in the publication of Ceara Sturgis’ yearbook photograph based on a personal “conviction,” a conviction without any objective policy rationale, is inconsistent with the values of the Copiah County School District, whose stated mission is to provide “learning opportunities that will enable students to become productive and well-adjusted citizens in an ever-changing society.” Indeed, it is difficult to see his exercise of power as anything other than a simple case of bullying.

It seems with the many issues we face today such as economic, poverty, teen age pregnancy, bullying, drop out rates, that our concern for a girl wearing a tuxedo in her picture should be of little value. This is how she wants to be remembered, as the person she truly is and not some made up person wearing a dress or feminine clothes to conform to your standards. Women can run for president, serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and preside over our nation’s most prestigious universities. And yes, they can even wear tuxedos. Please address this injustice, and allow Ceara Sturgis’ photograph to be published in the 2009 Wesson Attendance Center high school yearbook.

Respectfully,

PFLAG-Laurel, MS