“A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.”

Uhm.  What?

I find that interesting, considering there are plenty of metal Christian bands out there.  Plenty.  By plenty I mean well over a handful.  So, they can’t listen to religious metal music either?  I don’t get it.  I listen to rock music regularly.  I rarely drink (and I’m 24, I can legally), I don’t drive and drive, I’ve never even used drugs (or smoked cigarettes, tried it and thought it horrid and disgusting, never tried it again), and I don’t rebel.  My parents know just about every aspect of my life, I’ve told them where I’ve been going when I go somewhere.  Overall I’d say I was a respectful kid.  My first CD I bought was Green Day’s “Dookie” when I was 9.  It was closely followed up by CDs including Marilyn Manson (and Hanson, if you want to question whether my music taste has a broad spectrum).  Rock music does not cause rebellion.

And, holding hands?  When I was little I held my mom’s hand crossing the street.  It’s a simple and appropriate sign of affection that you can display in public without making someone else want to vomit.

Where the hell does it say that God isn’t okay with dancing?  Or kissing?  Apparently, from my research, there’s not even real passages in the Bible about not having sex before marriage.  Just keeping your bed clean.

I wash my sheets every 4 days.

What’s so inappropriate about attending prom?  It doesn’t mean you’re going to have sex, or get drunk, or do drugs.  I did none of the above at mine.  I danced, I went to a school lock-in at a sports center, watched a hypnotist and played games in an adult supervised area that was free for prom attending students.

A lot of schools in my little town in Iowa provide such events to persuade students away from the hotel scenario to keep girls from feeling obligated to have sex and being put in crummy situations.

Then again, we had sex-ed.  So, we were pretty much coerced out of having sex by the time we were 12.

Anyway.

Read on here.

What do you think this kid should do?  I think it’s excellent he’s attending a senior prom with his girlfriend.  I’m sure it’s important to his girlfriend (what girl doesn’t want to go to prom?), plus it’s such a defining moment of that point of leaving high school.  It’s your last real school event prior to graduation.

I think his school is ridiculous, and no wonder there is such a disconnect between God and youth these days.