All dressed up, no place to go? (Canada).Marc Hall For the baseball player, see . Marc Hall (born 1984) is a Canadian man whose legal fight to bring a same-sex date to his high school prom made Canadian and international headlines in 2002. Court Case Marc Hall v. wants what every high school senior wants--to spend his senior prom For the formal end-of-school-year dance, see . Senior Prom is a still-classified U.S. Air Force program to develop a stealth unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle (and possibly as a cruise missile), designed to be launched from a DC-130, B-52, or B-1. with the date of his choice. But officials at the Oshawa, Ontario Oshawa (2006 population 141,590, CMA, 330 594) [2] is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline, approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe. , Catholic school that the 17-year-old attends have barred Hall from going to his prom if he brings his boyfriend as his date. On April 11, Hall sued the principal and the school board, seeking $100,000 in damages and a court injunction to force officials to allow the couple to attend. "I don't want to be suing my school. I just want to go to the prom with my boyfriend," said Hall. Hall claims school officials said that they couldn't allow him to bring a male date because the church does not condone condone v. 1) to forgive, support, and/or overlook moral or legal failures of another without protest, with the result that it appears that such breaches of moral or legal duties are acceptable. the "homosexual lifestyle"--a position Hall calls hypocritical hyp·o·crit·i·cal adj. 1. Characterized by hypocrisy: hypocritical praise. 2. Being a hypocrite: a hypocritical rogue. , since an unmarried pregnant student attended last year's prom despite the church's opposition to premarital sex. "I'm sorry, but I don't have a `lifestyle.' I have a life," Hall said. "The school board uses this expression because they really do not accept and support gay students." |
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