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Quetzal

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Sat Dec-04-04 03:52 AM
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Hope in Mormon Utah

Prom dream a dance step closer for gay student

WEST JORDAN - No promises. But it looks like - come prom time - Jason Atwood may be able to walk onto the dance floor arm in arm with his boyfriend without a note from his parents.

After four days of protests outside Copper Hills High, Atwood, 17, and his allies won a small victory Friday afternoon when Principal Tom Worlton agreed to re-evaluate the school's policy - issued last month - requiring same-sex couples to get parental permission before attending school dances.

With about a half-dozen additional supporters, the handful of Copper Hills students took to the street, across from the school, to challenge the edict, which Worl- ton saw as a way to alert the parents to the dangers their children might face.

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Prom dream a dance step closer for gay student

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freeplessinseattle

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Sat Dec-04-04 03:59 AM
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1. wow, I grew up in West Jordan, never would have seen it as progressive

Edited on Sat Dec-04-04 04:15 AM by freeplessinseattle

wow, I must say though that note from parents policy is ludicrous, but not surprising.

*ha, and it'd be fun to go back sometime, not only do I have the non-Mormon stigma that followed me through elementary and middle school, but would come back openly bi, with my bi boyfriend, sporting dem stickers. It doesn't seem to have progressed that much in the last 20 years, but who knows, maybe West Jordan will be the center of a revolution.

Seattle's more my kind of place.

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Erika

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Sat Dec-04-04 04:15 AM
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2. Wow!

My little brother is a Mormon bishop in West Jordan. He hasn't said a word. The Church is still reeling from their excommunication of a young gay guy who then committed suicide. Maybe my affect on little bro is paying off.

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Sat Dec-04-04 11:42 PM
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4. Wow...

I could only wish back when I was going to Bountiful High School...

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Sun Dec-05-04 03:20 AM
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5. Mormon Queers

have you seen this film?

http://www.latterdaysmovie.com/index.cfm

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LDS Jock

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Sun Dec-05-04 06:37 PM
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6. I've seen it.. I liked it

Cute movie, cute guy.. what's not to like? Plus at least someone, even if only fictional, got to live out my corrupting a Mormon missionary fantasy.

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