The default right-wing take on this girl's case tends to be rather unsympathetic. Girl wants to go to prom with other girl, she's either a dateless wonder or a lesbian, who cares? Oh, she's making a political statement, great, so the statements more important to her than the prom, since she could easily have attended with another girl and simply not have said anything to raise a fuss. Common courtesy says keep the politics away from a major emotional event of most teens lives. If the prom was important to her the way it is to most people, she would have just gone with her date and no one would have stopped her, instead she's decided to throw a self-righteous fit and disrupt everyone else's experience when she likely could have aired her views on this left and right all day long without objection from the school board and either attended anyway or simply not have gone out of protest. There's a difference between protesting a war and protesting a war at a military funeral, although the ACLU happens to believe otherwise on that too.