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Pregant girl banned from graduation services

by Parker
Thu May 19th, 2005 at 01:47:26 AM EST

Of course this has do with the wingnuts ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A pregnant student who was banned from graduation at her Roman Catholic high school announced her own name and walked across the stage anyway at the close of the program.

Alysha Cosby's decision prompted cheers and applause Tuesday from many of her fellow seniors at St. Jude Educational Institute.

But her mother and aunt were escorted out of the church by police after Cosby headed back to her seat.

"I can't believe something like this is happening in 2005," said her mother, Sheila Cosby. "My daughter has been through a lot and I am proud of her. She deserved to walk, and she did."

...

The father of Cosby's child, also a senior at the school, was allowed to participate in graduation.

So this has nothing to do with religion otherwise the father should have been banned tooo..

Pregant girl banned from graduation services | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Pregant girl banned from graduation services (4.00 / 3)

Your conclusion is spot on.

In the long term, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris on Thu May 19th, 2005 at 05:59:28 AM EST

Re: Pregant girl banned from graduation services (4.00 / 2)

What a wonderful and brave young woman! I hope that more and more women, people in general, react in this way-it's not so easy to push people back into their little "place" once they've escaped it! And the hypocrisy of banning her but the not the father speaks for itself on just who is considered due to be shoved back into place!

"Before you knew the word 'dream' and the word 'fire' you dreamed of fires" Lisel Mueller

by vida on Thu May 19th, 2005 at 09:40:27 AM EST

Re: Pregant girl banned from graduation services (none / 1)

Just another continuation of the suppression of women, by the church and the reichwing Theocratic Fascistst, that want to control every aspect of our lives.

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by ghostdancers way (ghostdancers_way@hotmail.com) on Thu May 19th, 2005 at 09:51:03 AM EST

Re: Pregant girl banned from graduation services (none / 1)

Someone said it on another thread that all of these issues, abortion, abstainence, activist pharamcist is just to bring back shame on the woman... this story proves it...and this is why the Catholic church is dying because it is run by a bunch of mysoginists.

Let's beat the Republicans by by electing our own... Republicans.

by Parker on Thu May 19th, 2005 at 09:59:02 AM EST

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My mother walked for graduation in May of 1966. She and two other girls were called into the office of her suburban high school outside Grand Rapids, MI, and asked individually if they were pregnant. My mother lied--if you knew her, you would know how much it hurt her to do that--and they let her walk. The other two were given diplomas but not allowed to take part in the ceremony. My parents were married that same month, and I was born in late October that year. I attended the same high school, and eighteen years later broke her heart by dropping out my senior year. I remember her crying when I dropped out, telling me about what happened, and how my walking across that stage those years later would have been vindication for her...or maybe that's the wrong word, I don't know. I can't remember exactly what she said (though I can feel the pain of hearing it right now, twenty-one years later) but the gist was that by me turning out alright, getting through and graduating there, it meant in some measure that she hadn't done the wrong thing.

These girls have enough to deal with. I am a practicing Catholic, my children attend a Catholic school, and if that goes on here some people are going to be very unhappy to see me when I get wind of it. These girls need our support. They and their children need all the love and support we can give them. I want to believe that the Catholics are more tolerant (and I think that they are, by and large), though I still have issues with some of the beliefs they put forth. One of the few things I am sure of in this world is that none of the earthly religions have it right. Anyway--off subject.

Important note--there were mothers in my class who took part in the graduation ceremony, at that same high school, the class of 1984. While I don't think we should have to wait, and I am in no way defending the actions of the school, I think there is hope going forward. Some people are just so eager to cast that first stone, you know?

As far as letting the "biological father" walk--I feel a little sick thinking about them drawing the distinction. I actually convinced the mother of my first daughter, born when I was eighteen and incarcerated, to put me on the birth certificate when she was four. Parents are parents, and they need to held accountable for their actions, if they won't come forward and be accountable on their own. He should have refused to walk in protest.

Cheney/Voldemort '08

by wolverine writer on Thu May 19th, 2005 at 01:04:14 PM EST

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