Every now and then I come across a story that makes me wonder what the hell is wrong with people nowadays. In a Yahoo! article, it appears that a 17-year old boy Tyler Frost, plans to attend his girlfriend’s prom. He’s never been to a dance before… so you’d think this would be a magical experience. The “what the hell is wrong with people” part comes in to play here: the fundamentalist Baptist school that he attends will suspend him if he goes to that prom, as they forbid dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing.
According to that Yahoo! article, Tim England, the principal at Frost’s school, stated that “if Frost is involved with alcohol or sex at the prom, he will be expelled.” He goes on to say that “in life, we constantly make decisions whether we are going to please self or please God. (Frost) chose one path, and the school committee chose the other.”
Haven’t these people ever watched Footloose?
And what the hell is WRONG with these people?
Here’s another kick in the crotch… the handbook for Frost’s high school says that rock music “is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people’s hearts and minds.”
NOW you’ve gone too far, my friend.
I’m a God-fearing man. I believe that God created everything the sun touches, and even the stuff it doesn’t find… which includes Rock n’ Roll. Remember that scene in Major League when pitcher Eddie Harris says, “You trying to say Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?” Well, that’s what I’m saying here… “You trying to say Jesus Christ can’t play the end solo of Free Bird???”
Boggles the mind that these institutions still exist in our country.
This video would make Principal England ma-a-a-a-a-a-d.
I bet Principal England sees that video on the same “sin level” as Debbie Does Dallas… which, incidentally, I have NEVER seen (outside the comforts of my home).
Mr. Frost… your mistake won’t be to attend that prom, it will be to return to that high school.
P.S. – On Monday, May 11, the price of those “Forever” stamps go up to 44 cents… so if you want to save 2 cents per stamp, go get some this weekend. And call your mother.
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I read about this too – and the school’s response to all the media attn: Heritage Christian School: Response to Media. I haven’t studied the Bible extensively, but it seems they are taking this a little too far, and have applied the “lustful situation” concept unfairly. Not everyone ends up getting drunk or laid at a prom. Most kids just pretend they did.
When the school committee, many years before I became the principal, set up the policy regarding dancing, I am confident that they had the principle of fleeing lustful situations in mind. The question as I see it is, should a Christian place themselves at an event where young ladies will have low cut dresses and be dancing in them?
I’m all for individual interpretations of scripture and following rules, but it seems this rule should be revisited by the school, or at least make an exception for a senior dance of some kind. Kudos to Tyler for still insisting on going. More power to him.
Oops, forgot my other point. So does he mean then that the girls dancing in low cut dresses are NOT Christian? If I were one of their parents, I’d be taking issue with THAT.
That’s just stupid. Imposing rules such strict rules on kids is a sure fire way to make damned sure they rebel. We all knew a preacher’s daughter who was wilder than a monkey,right?
talk about puritanistic!!! wonder what they think of the ballet??? men in tights and all…mmmmmm….
and what of all the Bibical quotes that refer to dancing in a positive light? hasn’t Mr. Frost seen Footloose either, to know that he needs to dig those up, to quote back?
I love that the ad on top of your page for this article is for christianmingle.com. “Click here to meet local single Christians.” But NOT at a dance. Hee.
Please forgive a godless heathen like me, but doesn’t the Bible have music in it? Aren’t the Songs of Solomon, er, songs? So, just because electricity hadn’t existed at the time, God would have issues with an amp and electric guitar? Way to presume for GOD. Just a touch arrogant of people, I think. Didn’t Jesus turn water into, gasp, wine? Was it to just look at? So it was a non-dancing Jewish wedding? No one did the dance where they form a circle and lift up the bride and groom in their chairs?
Now, I have zero problem with people believing whatever they want, as long as it makes them better, less judgmental, more understanding people. But any group that makes blanket judgments about what some music is going to do to undermine a person’s fundamental morality is a bit, well, mental. Nice how they assume that the kid hearing rock at the prom will cause him to have sex and get drunk. If that were true, I should be a drunk whore right now. So should you.
I think, and this is just me thinking here, not trying to convert anyone to my way of thinking, that if there is an all-powerful creator and savior, he/she/it/they would care more about the content of our hearts, not the contents of our i-Pods.