The money is largely symbolic. She can pay her lawyers and maybe buy a car and a new tux. The important issue is that she made a positive change in the lives of LGBT youth in her community. She has shown the truth in the words of Margaret Mead when she said, “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

Constance is an example for all of us to stand up for our convictions.

If I were a religious man, I'd see this as evidence of a divine revelation visited upon the school board.

My faith in humanity allows me to hope that it reflects a genuine change of heart and an understanding of both the folly and cruelty of their previous approach to something that posed no real threat to anyone.

In the cold light of day/reason, I suspect it has more to do with lawyers and money than anything else.

However one reads it, it is a step in the right direction. Let's pay attention, though, to see that the stated resolution is sustained. Takes more than a "settlement" to change hearts and minds.

Money never lessens the pain. Why should our young people have to feel the weight of old style prejudice
. Let us move on to the 21st century and not worry about what a persons orientation is or who they choose to love.

God is THE REASON America became so great. God never intended man be with man or woman with woman. This is a moral issue and we do NOT condone it. Quit trying to make this a civil right because it's NOT. Our founding fathers would be so very ashamed of America today! They NEVER intended it to be this way. Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Who the heck are you, Kay, to speak for the national "we" in saying "we" don't condone whatever "it" is?

Constance wanted to wear a tux to the prom. Is that all your panties are twisted over? Get over it. The only difference between a man's shirt and a woman's blouse is the side the buttons are on. Today I wore a woman's pin stripe suit from Macy's and the only discernible difference between it and a man's is the zipper up the side instead of the front on the slacks.

Maybe you fancy yourself a better role model than Joan of Arc but she managed to save a nation and stand before God while crossdressed. She didn't blabber about “the reason” her country was great, but rather stood behind its greatness and stood for her king and her Savior. What sacrifice other than lip service do you have to offer?

Excuse me girlie, but if you're going to do the “Forgive them, for they know not what they do,” playing Jesus thing maybe you should put on some trousers. Oh. My mistake. Jesus didn't wear trousers, did He???

Kay,

Homosexuality is (and always has been) a very natural part of humanity. Your religious scruples cannot change that fact. The fact that you don't "condone" it is irrelevant and somewhat ludicrous. You might as well not "condone" blue eyes or left-handedness.

Our founders, bound as they were by eighteenth-century mores, would not have thought to codify equal right for homosexual people, just as they did not think to codify equal rights for women and for Black and native-American people. But they did create a Constitution that implicitly grants those rights (Sometimes it took Amendments to rectify the founders' oversights.) and they explicitly prevented your religious scruples from undermining those rights. I have no real problem with your being uncomfortable with homosexuality. Your inability to fathom the reality of innate same-sex attraction is much more your own problem (although I suspect it causes problems for people you know and love). The Constitution does not provide for your comfort. Indeed, accommodating the civil rights of others may necessitate some discomfort.