On The Day Of Silence

You must be referring to the April 25th, Day of Silence, organized by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, one of the most militant, well funded and powerful homosexual pressure groups out there.

The Day of Silence (DOS) has been held in my area for a few years now.  It's really all about pro-homosexual indoctrination of our children. Students and teachers are encouraged to refuse to speak in a show of support for self-described homosexual or transgendered students. 

Our schools are supposed to be places of learning.....not places where they are encouraging young kids to engage in sex that killls?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sounds like some are trying to push us back to the dark ages.

If there is a stupider way to demand an awareness of an issue, I have not found it yet. But then genius is limited, stupidity is boundless.

And, more, they go for one minority less persecuted than others. How many people have been shot for homosexuality?

12 were killed for Christianity in a school on one day.

When I was in school we were identified according to our gender...as male or female....today they encourage kids to identify themselves according to their "perceived sexuality! See how they slickly they maneuver sexual behavior into identity?

Autoerotic asphyxiation?

~Zoo

Actually, one thing about it is, shouldn't sexual preferences... heck, sex in general, be an unspoken taboo?

Do you really need to talk to everyone on the street about it?

Yes, I think so...especially with school age kids. Sex talk should be strictly left up to the parents....but ever since the sexual revolution in the 60s, prayer and God is OUT and teaching about sex is IN. The secularist worldlings won't have it any other way.

For a sampling of the kinds of things GlSEN teaches children, click here and be warned, it's graphic.

http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.aspid=2580&department=CFI&categoryid=papers#fistgate

What happened to your other article on the Day of Silence?

Could you please link to a news report or other evidence of a 12 CHRISTIAN school children being murdered in school FOR being Christian? I have no idea what incident you're talking about.

I am talking about, of course, Columbine.

Look it up.

Wrong. Try again.

Well, at least one of them was shot specifically for it, so that would mean that all could have been shot for that reason.

Also, who does these shootings? Not people raised in Christianity, your precious secular group.

Witch burnings, the Crusades, the Inquisition...nope, good God fearing Christians don't hurt anyone at all.

~Zoo

How old were you when Columbine happened? Do you even remember how/what went down?

Read up about it from news reports and then get back to me.



I'm not sure what this sentence even means. Christianity = my precious secular group? HUH?

Christians do indeed commit murders. I would have to do some digging to prove it but I would guess that at least a few of the recent school shooters have backgrounds of being raised in the Christian faith.

Regardless, the point is Christians in America are not being murdered for Christianity's sake. Christianity is a majority religion in America, and school children are generally NOT persecuted or harmed because of their faith of choice in schools.

Further, if they were, and even if they're not, feel free to start your own Day of Silence equivalent to highlight injustices and cruelties. Don't be jealous.

You are way off the mark here.

I shared important info regarding the Day of Silence on your other thread.

The National Day of Silence serves to "bring(s) attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools."

As a Christian, you should be on board with this cause. Christ did not engage in bullying and harassment, but instead promoted love and inclusion of those society would shun or abuse. I can give you Scriptures for this if you need them.

"This year’s event will be held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed Feb. 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression."

Again, how could you, as a loving Christian person, have a problem with this? Regardless of your stance on homosexuality, surely you do not support the murder of homosexuals!

This is an optional cause. Children who feel motivated to do so can participate. Those who don't feel motivated to participate don't even have to opt out. It's not mandatory or any sort of school requirement.

Do you really begrudge another human being humane treatment just because they do not live as you do? You are also a sinner, and your sins are equivalent to those of any homosexual, according to Christian belief. The blood of Christ, again, according to Christian belief, is your only salvation.

I am just befuddled by so many Christians who spend so much time bashing homosexuals. In what way is that constructive? Again I will ask you...what would Jesus do? Do you believe he would be outraged at high school kids taking the initiative to stand against murder and maltreatment of their peers?

GAAH! Typos abound.

Second off, no, but I am willing to take being called names, why should I not protest about state adoption of promotion of a sin.

Zoo, what you said with sarcasm was actually 100% correct. The Crusades, witch burning, the Inquisition, all of those were fundamentally flawed, and just an excuse for the primitive warlike European barbarians to express themselves. They just justified it through the church, incorrectly.

Ah, double posting because of the "Auth. Error".

Does sexual orientation have any place in the public sphere anyways? Other than politics and religion? No. So you don't need to walk around blatantly saying "I like others of my same gender group", you don't have to say anything. Sure, you can, but you don't have to.

It's not like you don't have a choice of sexual orientation. I believe all that "You're born that way" stuff is crap.

If you can't take the heat, just take a vow of celibacy.

In the spring of 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 students at COlumbine HS before killing themselves.  

From what I read, at least three of the students were singled out because of their Christianity by the two killers.

Cassie Bernall, 17, was asked by her killers whether she believed in God, and as she answerewd yes, was shot in the head at point blank range. We have the testimony of Darrell Scott, father of 2 victims, who testified at the Subcommittee on Crime hearing, May 27, 1999 in Washington. He  wrote a poem that says it all:

"Your laws ignore our deepest needs

Your words are empty air.

You've stripped away our heritage.

You've outlawed simple prayer.

Now gunshots fill our classrooms.

ANd precious children die.

You seek for answers everywhere.

And ask the question, "Why?"

You regulate restrictive laws.

Through legislative creed.

And yet you fail to understand.

That God is what we need.  

As far as I know, to date, there hasn't been one single shooting that has taken place in a Christian, Catholic or home school.

 

 

 

 

 

We had witch trials here in the states as well. There was also that massive slaughter and indoctrination of those pesky Native Americans. Not to mention all the good Christian KKK members who lynched those troublesome black people.

Yep, morality=Christianity alright.



Oh there have been a lot of shootings in homes. Not necessarily school, but homes nonetheless.

~Zoo

Oh no, then why did they take a simple non-denominational prayer out of public school, and  even  a simple quiet time when kids could privately pray for a few moments? Now we can't have that. Prayer mats for Muslim prayer, no problem though. How about removing anything that amounts to seeming "Christian" at holidays, like Christmas? The schools in my area are so rabidly anti-CHristian that they won't even allow the colors red and green!  

You may not think that classroom sex instruction and "day of silence" propaganda encouraging homosexuality is harming Chrisitian children,  but I do...I think it's tantamount to child abuse and for good reason...becasue homosexuality is statistically and manifestly a deadly sexual practice.

Our Lord had something to say about those who harm His little ones...that better a millstone be hung around their necks and they were thrown into the sea than harm one of His. 

 

Well, thanks for the suggestion. Evidently it's already in the works...it's called the Day of Truth...it's based upon the idea that the Day of Silence is a misnomer, because what is truly being silenced is the Truth.

Yep, parents all over the country are fed up...some are keeping their kids home that day and others are planning to shatter the "silence" with the Day of Truth. Monday, April 28th.



I'm blanking out, I don't remember this thread.




To be sure, name-calling, bullying and harassment of ANYONE shouldn't be tolerated against ANYONE, for any reason and those who engage in it should be properly punished. That's it. That's how to handle bullying, etc.

BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE DOS IS REALLY ABOUT AND IF YOU BELIEVE IT THEN,

SORRY, You've been duped. In reality, these good hearted but misguided kids are pawns serving school administrations too scared and politically correct to come up against the homosexual heavies like GLSEN and other activists.

The DOS serves only to honor homosexuality...after all, everybody has just got to buckle under, drop their Christian morality, and believe with all their heart the lie that homosexuality is normal, safe and perfectly acceptable and respectable.




As a Christian, I want anyone who bullys or hurts another person properly punished.

Christ told the adulterous woman to go and sin no more. He also said He came to bring testimony to the Truth.

I'm actually done with this discussion. No disrespect, Lula, but you tend to go on and on and on and on with something and this debate is simply not important enough to me for me to invest that kind of time in.

I disagree that this is a huge problem for parents. My school-age children are 7 and nearing 11 and they have no idea what the Day of Silence even is. It's just not something we are personally concerned about right now. I am not offended nor do I feel morally threatened by those who feel passionately about the DoS and who wish to participate, even in my own children's school. It doesn't harm me in the least.

I am likewise not offended or concerned by the DoT proposal.

Regardless of what goes on in school, my husband and I are the ones with the most influence over our children's moral values (this has been researched and found to be true...parents have MORE influence even than peers). If I ever feel their school environment is in direct and problematic contradiction with our values, I have several options including private school and home schooling.

Re: the other article

Erathoniel has ignored my comments regarding it, but he had initially posted two separate articles on this topic, one of which I took great care to comment on and apparently it has been deleted, although he seems unwilling to admit he deleted it.

Anyways, I'm done, son. Enjoy agreeing with each other!

Not only were these three Columbine students killed becasue they were Christians, but when crosses were put up on the grounds as memorials, some others were "offended" and had them removed.



I condemn immoral, harmful and potentially deadly behavior...and that's what homosexuality is...and schools that encourage it by having DOS are committing educational malpractice.


Are you all for a day of silence for those students who smoke heavily, are hooked on drugs and drink alcohol?

Lula, as I said previously, I am finished with this discussion. You can continue to debate my points with Erathoniel or whomever else happens upon this thread, but if I respond to even one of your comments it will end up being a days or weeks long discussion.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, but I am pau.

Because to Liberals.. Victim=Respect.

None taken....I was trying to answer your questions in post #13. I've learned that it's best to be thorough in discussions such as this...

It's true that parents are the most important educators and influences on their children and it sounds as though you are on top of the situation...unfortunately way too many parents aren't.