"Day of Silencing" approaches
The "Day of Silencing", the day homosexual activists convince high-schoolers and government-school administrators to help silence those that oppose the homosexual agenda is coming up soon. WorldNetDaily reports...
"It's outrageous that our neighborhood schools would allow homosexual activism to intrude into the classroom," said Buddy Smith of the American Family Association, one of a long list of organizations asking parents to keep their students home from school on that day.
"'Day of Silence' is about coercing students to repudiate traditional morality. It's time for Christian parents to draw the line – if your children will be exposed to this DOS propaganda in their school, then keep them home for the day," he said...
Matt Barber, a spokesman for Concerned Women for America, said the day "amounts to educational malpractice."
"Our schools are supposed to be places of learning, not places of political indoctrination. It is the height of impropriety and cynicism for 'gay' activists and school officials to use children as pawns in their attempt to further a highly controversial and polarizing political agenda," he said.
Locally, my wife, who had an extended, substitute-teaching assignment, tells me the sign-up for that school's DOS made the rounds a few weeks back. She watched as kids were pressured into signing-up without being told fully what they were signing. As each kid signed the peer pressure to join in became greater for other kids. Meanwhile the very kids signing the papers saying that they would participate (and being told by the signature collector that they didn't actually have to participate, only sign) were the very students who regularly used the term "gay" as a slang for "bad", as well as the same ones who she could never, ever get to shut up in class. Symbolism over substance.
My question is, will the homosexual activists use the "petitions" as "proof" of how many participated, inflating the actual numbers, or is there actually a legitimate way of knowing how many kids voluntarily participated?
Posted by Danny Carlton at April 17, 2008 7:08 AM