(Wyo.) Student Challenges Rule on Same-Sex Dates

[DUreader]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3421649,00.html



BIG PINEY, Wyo. (AP) - A straight teenager is
challenging a school district policy that bars
students from bringing same-sex dates to school
dances.

In September, Amanda Blair tried to defy the rule
by taking another young woman to the
homecoming dance at Big Piney High School. They
were kept out by sheriff's deputies at the request
of school officials.

Blair, a senior at Big Piney, has now enlisted the
help of the American Civil Liberties in formally
calling on Sublette County School District No. 9 to
lift the same-sex date ban.

In a letter sent Thursday to Superintendent B.
Weldon Shelley, the ACLU stated the policy
violates a 1980 federal court ruling out of Rhode
Island. The decision handed down in Frick v. Lynch
found that students who bring same-sex dates to
school dances are not only protected by the
Constitution but that schools must take steps to
ensure their safety when they attend the dances.

[xchrom]

1. damn, man

i love it when i hear str8 people get in on the action like that.
it just tickles me and makes me feel good all over.
that is so cool.

[WillParkinson]

2. Awesome!

It makes me feel like there is hope for man (and woman) kind.