Gay-free prom rejected by church pastor

There has been an angry reaction to a group of parents decision to organise a gay-free prom.

Parents of an Indiana high school launched the idea after the principal was asked if same-sex couples could attend the prom, to which he later said “Anybody can go to the prom”.

The church pastor, who hosted the initial meeting has said that the church doesn’t back the effort to throw a “straight-only prom”.

Diana Medley, a special-education teacher at a different school is quoted as saying to a local NBC station that the prom is “offensive to us” because of the decision to allow gay and lesbian students to the prom.

She went on to bring God into the debate by equating gay and lesbian teenagers to students with learning difficulties. Medley said: “I think God puts everyone in our lives for a reason.”

A student at Sullivan High School, the school in question, said the following on the matter: “As long as they aren’t sitting there and kissing on the dance floor and grinding on each other, stuff like that, I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t see what’s wrong with it. Prom is for everybody. It’s a high school experience.”

[Written by Shaun Linden, source: NBC News / NBC WTHR]