Column for March 18, 2010

I am just ignorant and unenlightened. I did not know that until this week. I guess that would be the very definition of the words, though. So, what could this faithful, opinionated, gregariously misanthropic writer of newspaper columns be so ignorant and unenlightened about? A lesbian teenager, apparently.

National news outlets recently carried the story of a lesbian high school student from Mississippi that wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom. The school decided rather than capitulate, they would cancel the prom for everyone. Now this lesbian teenager is suing the school to reinstate the prom event and allow her to attend just as she desired.

It is sad that the school ended up ruining everyone's prom, but it was a prudent decision. First, the prom is meant for male/female couples and has always been so historically and traditionally. To endorse a disruption such as a lesbian couple would violate the very tradition they were seeking to uphold. Even worse, it would be endorsing a lifestyle that is unnatural, unholy, a public health nuisance, totally against the idea of abstinence education, contrary to the vast majority of the public's morals, and until recently illegal in many states.
Why would it fine to ban religion and prayer in schools but OK to allow sodomites to be on promenade? By canceling the prom, all students, not just a lesbian, gets the misery of not going to the prom. I would think that this would strengthen the position of the school against a lawsuit. Obviously the lesbian in question flaunted the idea prior to the prom, or the school would not have canceled it. There is now no prom from which to be barred.

I know of one person who disgustedly exclaimed that people just need to pray for the school administrators in this situation. I agree. We should pray for them. Others liken the stand against homosexual behavior to opposing the Civil Rights Movement and brand those like myself who oppose the homosexual rights agenda as ignorant, unenlightened fools. If you believe in prayer, you must also believe in the idea that homosexuality is a grievous sin and a behavior. Segregation because of skin color is one thing, but homosexuality is a choice of behavior, not a matter of being born with dark skin pigment.

I can not fathom being complacent, not minding such moral decay in our society. It is precisely such decay that led to the downfall of every major civilization in history. Am I intolerant of the homosexual rights agenda? You better believe it. We as a people need to be less tolerant, not more permissive on some issues. The "gay" (I hate the term "gay" since it is a hijacking of a once proper word. Now I can't hear "The Flintstones" theme song without cringing) agenda is one of those. I certainly do not want my children infected by tolerance of it, which is oft being pushed in society as well as in our schools. I applaud the school system in Mississippi for their willingness to take a stand. Tolerance of the homosexual agenda and moral decay is the real ignorance rather than withstanding it.

But Troy, you ask, how can a lesbian knowing who she is and just wanting to be herself be moral decay? Are we not in the 21st Century after all? What was once considered deviant, perverse behavior is now becoming mainstream and permissive. That most certainly is decay.

You may ask, "What business is it of the school's if a young woman wants to happily be a lesbian and attend the prom with her partner?" It is every bit their business. If the student wants to be a lesbian, that is her business. But to bring her demand of acceptance of said chosen perversion to the public school, paid for by the tax dollars of the majority, is a concern for everyone who paid tax dollars, everyone who works there, and everyone who either is or sends students to that school. I believe that the young lesbian has every right to be one if she chooses, but has zero right to flaunt it, promote it, or force acceptance of it upon school children. That is moral decay.

My hope is that we never have to deal with this same issue in our own schools here in our area. Alas, I believe it will happen, though. The flood is coming. The finger is out of the dike, so to speak.