Anoka-Hennepin changes Snow Days coronation over lesbian students’ election

The right extremists scream, leave it to the vote, and then when it comes to the vote, and they are defeated they still say I don’t want it.

We need to stop pandering to the special interest groups that try and force all society to fit in its small box.

If you don’t like watching two women walk hand in hand with each other than look the other way or don’t go or don’t hold another womans hand if your a woman.

Seems students thinking for themselves is not something to be respected.

I think the Lesbian Royalty should “Make Out” at the Coronation.. It would be fun to see Barb Andersons brain melt..

My thoughts are, why make the school the battle ground. Ban all romance and sexual, dont single out anyone, that should make everyone happy. I am sick of the schools being used as political pawns. If you want to be with someone of your own sex, do it on your own time.

Interesting idea, except for the fact that straight couples have been free to be prom royalty, dance at school dances together, etc. for decades. Now that same-sex couples are getting their shot (thanks to voting by the student body), you want to ban school romances?

I think its rediculous how Barb Anderson believes that “LGBT advocates were responsible for LGBT students being bullied.” LGBT students were getting bullied before anyone ever deffended them. So how is it now that the selective few in the student body that actually care about the well being of the gay-community in our schools are the cause of them being persicuted? I believe that no one should be treated differently because of there race, ethinicity, gender, or sexual preference. That being said, I think the District should have handled this in a matter that, maybe, this was a start to the acceptance that there are same-sex couples in our schools. And it’s ok. Instead of shutting down the movement, embrace it. Cause seeing this may give LGBT students hope that things will get better in schools as the years go on. I don’t see anyone telling me I’m wrong for being attracted to the opposit sex. So why tell sam-sex couples that there wrong for what there attracted to? Just my thoughts…

Want to anger your conservative 3rd/6th district parents? Do it anyway. Teens are all into rebellion, why not then?

Why do they want to separate the couple now that it’s a lesbian couple?! It screams discrimination. They would never cook up that new rule if it wasn’t two girls, obviously. I’m glad the student body sees this, and is rising above the close-mindedness of some of the older people in the district.

Teacher – yeah, telling kids to hide their essential selves is really conducive to learning. Not.

Here is an update:

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-and-rights-groups-urge-minnesota-school-district-to-restore-lgbt-students-rig

“…they couldn’t walk into the celebration in pairs, because for two girls to do so might offend some students.” Let us have another perspective; seeing a guy and a girl walking into the celebration in pairs might offend some students. If the guy and girl scenario were the case, how come it’s not getting much publicity if it’s offending some students?

Peter Gokey – thank you for the update

Teacher – You shouldn’t be teaching.

As a student at this school and friend of the two nominated girls I think you need to know what really is happening in my school. There are several people nominated to be a part of royalty. Half men, half women. They are nominated AS INDIVIDUALS and at the coronation ceremony, the royalty group chooses who they want to make an entrance with. Normally the students would choose a royal person of the opposite sex. The two girls who were part of royalty wanted to walk together because they are dating. That therefore would leave two men without a female partner. The two men who were left out are also good friends of mine. They said they had no problem either walking alone or even together despite the fact that they are both straight. They were just going to make it a funny entrance or a joke if they entered together. The school administration has told us that by forcing royalty to walk alone, it will make everyone comfortable and happy and it’s not a violation of rights. Although I personally am indifferent about the “gay debate” being a strong Christian, I don’t think it should be any problem for a couple to choose to walk together. The ONLY reason this is a social issue is because the girls are gay. PLAIN AND SIMPLE

Very good point, Champlin Park HS Alumni 02, U of M Grad Student

people get with it were not in the 50st they are human no diffrent then people making a reglion chose

The skool offishuls are rite!!!

Here are some more things that would offend me at a skool dance:

Tall girl walkin with short boy.
Good lookin boy walkin with fat girl.
White girl walkin with black boy.
White girl walkin with mexican boy.
Jew walkin with christan.
Anyone walkin with muslim.

Its obvious them kids are gettin communized by teechers or they wud only vote for rich white kids.

will students also be walking alone for graduation ceremony for the same reasons? after all what would people think!!!

It was with great dismay and concern that I read new reports of the
changes in the Snow Days Coronation at Champlin Park High School. The idea that responsible adults would curtail the rights and customary
privileges of a these young women to avoid offending the sensibilities
of a bigoted few is quite alarming. If anything, these young women
should be celebrated for having the courage to be open about who they
are in this day and age of hate and violence towards their kind. I
urge you to do what you can to set an example and display the courage
to stand against prejudice and bigotry.

Thats exactly what i was saying! this should have been seen as a good thing rather than somethin to be frowned upon and swept under the rug. Proof once again that Christians get what they want…

The statements from the school seem to be changing. This is what was reported on the WCCO website:

“Anoka-Hennepin schools spokeswoman Mary Olson says traditionally the royal court walks into the assembly as male-female couples, but the lesbian couple said they weren’t comfortable with that.”

That’s not what was reported in the above. So did the couple really say they weren’t comfortable or is Mary Olson not telling the truth? Her statement is also a bit confusing. What exactly is the lesbian couple uncomfortable with? Walking in as a lesbian couple or walking in with a guy? This makes no sense and I suspect the school is trying to cover their butts as quickly as possible. (Not doing a real good job either IMO)

I am uncomfortable with hetrosexuals, dont want to see them, watch them kiss or walk together or anything especially teach them about their own sexuality. Further, heterosexual breeding is against my religion and I think it is sinful, so I dont really think it is a good idea to promote this practice, or let kids even see that heteros exists because they might just turn into heterosexuals. I really wish heteros would just do all that pre-breedy thingy on their own time and keep it to themselves, repent or pray it away really. I’d be so much more comfortable.

And Teacher, this IS their time, not yours! YOU are fomenting a battlegound, and I agree with Alumni 02. Be off! You are NOT qualified to teach children so they thrive.

In response to the quote from the email, own up! If you’re going to be homophobic, at least be honest. Don’t try and hide behind empty words. ” Please remember that students were nominated as individuals, not as couples – therefore we will present them to you and honor them as individuals during the Pep Fest.” Come on! Look me in the eye and tell me these changes would have been made if the two girls hadn’t wanted to walk together. And “We feel this decision is more respectful for all students,”? Really? I’d like to know how respected those girls (or the people who voted them in for that matter) feel.

What a bunch of homophobic B.S.!!!! I hope the school district gets their rears sued and has to pay out a lot of money so that “teacher” above will loose her/his job as a result. School don’t need homophobic teachers.
These women are both 18 which is the legal age and can do as they wish. Go girls, do your thing and sue the school district.
It would be great if the entire student body would start kissing their members of their own sex as a show of support for these students violated civil rights.

@ Wendy

Hunny I LOVE your posts and I have read most of what you have to say..I agree with you on 99% of OUR value system.. BUT!! Dont be doggin’ ALL of us heteros.. Believe it or not ….. Not all of us live in a trailer park.. The Trailer Park Heros are the Bachmann supporters…

I find this issue to be wildly blown out of proportion by the school administration and the school district. I am a recent graduate of Champlin Park and I attended the Snow Days Pep Fest and dance for the last two years. There have been homosexual students nominated to the court in previous years. These students were fine walking across the gym in front of the student body with the opposite sex. These two girls were not comfortable with the situation, so they went to Student Council, who organizes the Snow Days event. The Student Council agreed that the two girls could walk together, as long as two guys (who were heterosexual) were okay walking together. The two boys agreed to the arrangement. There have been plenty of lesbian and gay couple who have attended the dance together and no one has ever protested. Obviously the student body nominated the two girls to be royalty, and has no issue with the girls being on the court. When the principal heard about the two girls walking together he decided that was not alright, for whatever reason, and declared they could not walk together. The school board agreed with his decision. Shouldn’t the student body and Student Council who are putting on these events make the decision?

@Emily, Thank you for your insight. The School Board is run by a bully, he was a coach of my son’s football team and unless you were part of a certain group then you didn’t play. This was not a school sponsored sport and all boys should have played equally because it was a “learning team” and a “fun sport”, not a “who’s who” sport. Mr. Heideman is a bully and has been for years and is trying to force his religion and his “clic” onto the districts rules.

I will not stand for PALS or MFC coming in and speaking for the few, I have spoken to many parents of bullied kids that have gotten no help from Anoka-Hennepin School District because the Board is cow towing to the few.

This shit makes me sick. I cant believe that this is such a big deal. So two girls like each other SO WHAT! Y is it so horrible? Dont fucking look if u dont like it. Just like if you dont agree w/ a straight couple being together..dont look…not ur life…stay out.

Wow. What a bunch of nonsense to accommodate a couple of kids who want to be identified by the type of sexual gratification they prefer.

Your culture needs a psychiatrist.

AT Dennis

Proms and dances, and pep rallys for decades have been delivering to the straight culture.

One is born Gay, one is not just getting gratification sexually. One identifies with what they are.

You must identify with being a bigot. Get to a psychiatrist, you need one.

Actually, Marie, I “identify” as a human. You should wikipedia that yourself.

Bettie, the 20% of people who self-identify as liberals in this country also control the media, education and entertainment industries and so they have an over-inflated view of their influence with the population as a whole. It helps explain why they’re shocked when the people they despise get elected to office and their confusion over why parents are pulling their kids out of government schools.

I remember that infamous comment from the Manhatten liberal when Reagan was elected in 1980: “What! How could he have won? I don’t know anyone who voted for him!” heh

@Dennis obviously you get your facts from fox news and are very easily and fond of throwing up the same line of bs of the Glen Becks of the world.

@ Bettie, those were the very same words the extreme religious right used to try and keep slavery. its nice to see history repeat itself in such a Biblical way :)

uh, Marie. The pro-slavery folks were the democrats. Lincoln was a republican. Bobby Byrd, was a democrat senator from West Virginia and a member of the KKK, as was Hugo Black, supreme court justice appointed by FDR. More republicans voted for the 1964 civil rights act than did democrats. Al Gore’s father and Bill Clinton’s mentor, J. William Fullbright filibustered against it.

In short, you need to read a history book.

Dennis uhhh

do your history over

the Southern Baptist Convention was formed in an effort to preserve the Christian basis for slavery before the start of the Civil War, they did not feel it necessary to bother apologizing until June 1995. The reason was that even though the question of slavery had been settled, the question of race still burned.

The later repression and discrimination against the freed black slaves received as much biblical and Christian support as the earlier institution of slavery itself. This discrimination and the choice to enslave blacks only was made primarily on the basis of what has become known as the “sin of Ham” or “the curse of Canaan.” Occasionally there would also be defenses of the inferiority of blacks by asserting that they bore the “mark of Cain.”

Dennis: They are the “Democratic” and “Republican” parties – not the “Liberal” and “Conservative” parties. In the 1860s, the Democratic Party was the party of the establishment, and in the south that meant the endorsement and continuation of slavery. The Republican party had a strong civil rights wing until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey successfully exhorted the DNC to “come out of the shadow of states’ rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of Human Rights” – driving the Dixiecrats from the Democratic Party into the waiting arms of the Republicans, who promptly purged all traces of their positive past on civil rights to embrace their new racist constituency.

Liberals and Democrats are not synonymous – they are merely an alliance of convenience.

The equivalency of the two is not natural, but happened as the result of the conservatives’ hollowing out of the Republican Party’s skull and replacement of its theoretical brain matter with a toxic stew of religion and power-politics.

@Katie, well put.

The business of liberal and conservative is only used now in connotation with religion within politics which it does NOT belong.

Lets get back to the basis of politics, where a conservative economic idea could be heard, and debated on. The same with a Liberal.

Do NOT indoctrinate your personal religious choice and lifestyle on the public. Let live and let God, be it if you believe to judge, since that is what your religion even dictates!

@Bettie

you do realize that there are actually MANY Christian sects that either a, totally and fully support the concept that homosexuality is not a sin and that many many others do not condone any anti gay thoughts, when they do not agree with the notion that gay is ok.

So only a very small percent is an indoctrinating, and oppressive, and is insulted pr offended by seeing something that they do not agree with or do not support.

For no matter what you think or even the extremists otherwise think, Gay is real, and is here, and ALWAYS has been here.

50 years ago the same bigots would have had the same problem with black/white couples. Now they are directing their attention at the gays.

The happy news is that by voting in the gay couple these students are showing that the younger generation is increasingly unconcerned with gender orientation. Reason almost always wins out in the end, but not before the conservatives put up a fight against it.

Marie don’t entertain Dennis it isnt worth it

for the rest
i am a heterol sexual person
we have posted together before
i have been trying to understand the concept of being born gay
to me it makes it sound like a disease
trust me there is no offense intended to anyone
and i dont really care if a person is gay or not
i just don’t like the petifiles preying on a person who doesn’t and is to young to
to differentiate a sexual preference

the military churches ,state and federal Representative and also prisons are full of sexual petifial people don’t tell me i am wrong i know this , i have seen this many times in every category i posted especially the military and the politicians

a perfect example is almost every heterol sexual males dream is to see two women sleeping together or multiple partners or even boppin the bishop every chance they get
so the petifial thing is where i draw the line
a person being openly gay is just fine and guaranteed under the 14th amendment

in the henipen school district where i once lived ,,at 4th grade my daughter ,had a class of alternative life style, i chose to keep her out of school that day
my daughter received an unexcused absent in which i could have cared less

i guess my point is i don’t think its a disease
2 people like each other so be it
and people saying they were born that way makes it sound like a disease

please i am not trying to debate or offend anyone , i am just trying to understand it
and i will never understand or tolerate a petifial person that is a disease of the mind

if one of my children came home and said they were gay,, i would say yeah so what
if they were of a age where they could understand the true difference of sexual preference ,, if they were to young i would seek professional help so they could understand the difference and then let them make the choice

and also kids take your time [ 20 and younger ]
truly find out who you are before you decide who you are

life is to short but for some life can be to long

this all comes from 30 years of pain from being raped by a petifial

one more thing i didnt add i will not or condone any type of bullying which is also
called school retaliation
zero tolerance policy with expulsion

i remeber we had a football coach who enticed the kids on the football team to pick
on other kids for diferent types of reasons , he is in the state coaches hall of fame now
i should give his name as he was so highly put on a pedestal,but he was a total a hole

as this story was unfolding i forgot about the bullying part
i am sorry

kids it is your obligation to report it immediately and follow up that some thing is done there is a bully hot line number ,,google it
in the military it is called command retaliation which is no different

Can we remember that these are kids? Can we even begin to think of the impact these polarizing adults are having on the life of these children? When it was up to the kids, it was fine with them to let the young women walk together. The straight guys didn’t mind. Now, presumably under the cloak of “what’s good for the kids,” stridency, polarization and bigotry rule the day. What a sad lesson for the children. What is wrong with these people?