The Museum’s favorite ‘that shit’s hilarious’ organization, the Westboro Baptist Church (creators of the ‘God Hates Fags’ slogan / cultural meme), is back to present more epic displays of so-not-funny-that-it’s-borderline-hilarious hate advocacy. This time, it’s with that Mississippi high school student who wasn’t allowed to attend prom with another girl (aka the “Are lesbians are allowed at the formal?” Summer Heights High-influenced dilemma)…
The church has decided to protest her high school graduation. Because, well, ‘homos shouldn’t graduate high school’.
NY Daily News has more:
A Mississippi lesbian who was denied the chance to go to her school’s prom is now being targeted by a Kansas-based hate group - and it is going to protest at her graduation.
The Westboro Baptist Church, which has drawn jeers for picketing at soldiers’ funerals and on Tuesday cheered the deaths of 12 tornado victims in Mississippi, said in a statement last weekend that they will be on hand for Constance McMillen’s high school graduation ceremony, the Advocate reported.
“[We] will picket the graduation of Itawamba Agricultural High School to remind the parents, teachers and students of this nation that God said ‘Thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind, it is abomination,’” the group declared.
McMillen fought a legal battle with her Fulton, Miss., high school after it refused to allow her to attend the prom with her girlfriend. In response to the fight, the school then decided to cancel the prom.
She won in court after the judge found that the school had violated her freedom of expression, but did not force the school to reinstate the classic high school event.
McMillen then attended a privately held prom, but said afterward that the one she went to was actually a “fake,” while most of the rest of her classmates attended another prom she wasn’t told about.
The 18-year-old received national attention for her battle with the Itawamba County School District. She received a $30,000 scholarship from Tonic.com, a digital media company, during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in March.
McMillen has also been invited to take part in New York City’s Gay Pride Parade through Greenwich Village in June.