High school prom poster sex-shames young women

[procon]

19. OK lets start with this:

Two proselytizing religious groups, a taxpayer funded public school and principal, do not mix. This is prominently featured in our Constitution, as well as many other well defined laws prohibiting this type of public endorsement of religion. That principal is an enabler, and without his approval, those church-sponsored flyers would never be up on the walls without his permission.

This is a theological propaganda poster that was designed by one of the religious groups, and includes their advertising message icons and slogans as well as the signed endorsement by the principal. One of the faith groups even explains their intent, "This poster was one part in a series of timely social messages..."

The intent is to target school kids with the religious taboos of one faith, with the primary focus on young women in particular because, apparently, prom is a night when girls -- and it's only the girls, yeah! -- have a reputation to protect. This poster is promoting the beliefs of one religion and laying out a double standard that lets young men get off without any admonitions or snide assessments of their characters or moral virtues. The graphic image of a young woman describes "character" in terms like “shy, polite, tidy, and quiet", because girls who are loud, assertive, outspoken, and angry must be bad and undesirable if her character valued and self-esteem is tied to her meekness and the implication of sexual "purity".