Irony pie, full of delicious irony cherries

[merrily]

Update to this post about Constance wanting to bring her girlfriend to prom - the American Humanists Association (that is, Atheists 'r' Us) have got together, via an anonymous donation, a whopping $20,000 to spend on an LGBTQ-friendly prom for Itawamba Agricultural High School.

I cannot even imagine what kind of kick-ass awesome amazing prom 20K buys. Streamers made of platinum? Diamonds for everyone? The Itawamba Ritz rented out for the night?

To me, this is lovely, delicious irony, because it seemed that the undercurrent in the Itawamba County School Board's statement - that they hoped a private group would put on an alternative prom - was that they hoped one of the churches would take over. One of the local churches, that is, with similar homophobic tendencies,* who wouldn't be blamed for keeping tux-wearing girls out.

And what they got were the atheists.

Ahahahaha.


*I'm sure there must be at least one local church there that would've been delighted to hold an LGBTQ-friendly prom. I just don't think that Itawamba County School Board was looking at Metropolitan United when they said they hoped an outside group would host prom for the kids.

Comments

[glitterandlube]

:D I hope they all have the most awesome prom ever. Uh, however that actually goes. I've never been to one.

[merrily]

Mine was like everyday highschool, but in fancy clothes. And then we drank a lot.

So. Prom - it sounds like more fun than it is.

That said, if there was a kickass stick-it-to-the-man defy-wrongheaded-authority thing going on, prom could be _totally amazing_. I posit.