Free To Choose

AND SO IT CAME TO PASS that in a small western indiana town a few teachers and some students decided to have a "traditional" prom, meaning, an exclusively heterosexual one. And this has caused an international furor, in the town, and everywhere else, via the internet.

My understanding is that this straight prom will not be an official school function, and that the regular, officially school santicioned politically correct prom shall likewise commence. One wonders how many students will attend both.

The "prom", of course, being an american institution in which , usually, the high school junior class gives the  seniors a dance party as a going away present. My senior year, we didn't have one, because the juniors and  seniors couldn't get along.

With regard to this indiana gig, the question is,: so what? Who cares? Well, a lot of  people, actually. More than should. There will come a time when the people who promulgated this traditional prom will laugh at themselves for having done so.

 One of the teachers instigating the conservative alternative prom openly spoke out against gay people, and others have pointed out that the community of four thousand is highly christian. Bible believing Christians. As if this in itself justified bigotry, rather than condemned it.

The controversy is the talk of the town, and the talk of the world, via the internet, as well, with online petitions calling for the anti gay teacher's termination. Millions want to weigh in, and more power to them. I say, simply ignore the fools. The fools would be humorous, were they not in such deadly earnest, to quote a a famous philosopher.

Prom season is still a couple of months away, so, there's time to find a solution, to heal. But it needn't be a problem, for this town, or anyone else. Live and let live. Acceptance and tolerance of everyone, regardless of race, color, creed, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and so forth , and so on, will proceed.

In other words, people who do not like gay people are free to do whatever they want, or should be free to do whatever they want, to avoid all contact with gay people. That is the american way; freedom, freedom of association, or non association.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world, which includes most americans and most others, is free to continue to progress towards a world of universal love and tolerance, like jesus wanted. We'll have to wait and see how it turns out.