Protect Your Kids on the Day of Silence: Keep Them Home
Culture Campaign has joined a national pro-family coalition calling on parents to keep their children home on April 18th from any PARTICIPATING school -- to avoid GLSEN's homosexual "Day of Silence."
NOT OUR KIDS…
Calling parents to respectful, but firm opposition to the promotion of homosexuality in our public schools on The Day of Silence
What: The Day of Silence is an annual event sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN.) According to GLSEN, The Day of Silence is held to commemorate and protest anti-GLBT bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day in silence to echo the silence that GLBT and ally students face everyday. In it's 11th year, the Day of Silence is one of the largest student-led actions in the country.
On last year's Day of Silence, over 500,000 students nationwide were confronted with mute homosexual peers and "allies" wearing stickers and passing out cards, which stated (in part):
"... My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending the silence is the first step toward fighting these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today. What are you going to do to end the silence?"
When: April 18th (some schools observe earlier, some later)
Where: over 4000 junior high, high school, and colleges participated last year. Check out the online list of probable participating schools.
Who: The Day of Silence is sponsored by The Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network (GLSEN). This organization has on more than one occasion sponsored events where kids as young as middle school were given graphic, sexually depraved how-to instruction in homosexual sex. WARNING: This material is extremely offensive but important for adults to see as it is a representation of what GLSEN considers to be helpful information for confused teens.
If you would like to see samples, you may click here and also click here.
Incidents at local, Chicago-area schools:
A North Shore high school student found a note on the blackboard of their art class stating that if anyone spoke on Day of Silence his or her grade would be lowered.
Students at Deerfield High School were initially told that they could NOT put up posters announcing the Day of Truth, which would have been a violation of The Equal Access Act. The school district delayed the students until after they spoke with their attorneys and then gave permission. The posters were subsequently defaced and torn down.
Our view: The Day of Silence is part of a larger strategy by homosexual activists to cast homosexuals and cross-dressers as the victims of society, when in fact they are aggressors who assault both the innocence of children (see the information in ‘Who’ above) and the natural family as the ideal of society.
Culture Campaign in no way condones the harassment or bullying of children in school – for any reason. However, we believe that teaching approval of homosexuality is NOT the answer to this problem. The greatest cause for harassment in school today is obesity. Schools should stand squarely against bullying, not in favor of homosexuality.
Public schools are not obligated to accommodate the Day of Silence. It politicizes the classroom, disrupts teaching, and allows teachers to express their pro-homosexual views. Furthermore, it also violates IL State School Code (105 ILCS 5/27-9.1): “Sex education presentations…protects against personal bias by an instructor."
"Teenagers deserve an opportunity to study English, history, math, and science -- without being subjected to pro-homosexual proselytizing sanctioned by school authorities. Students shouldn't be forced to self-censor or adopt beliefs contrary to those of their parents and places of worship," said Linda Harvey of Mission America, a coalition member. "Even the strongest of our junior high and high school children are not equipped to serve as frontline soldiers in this culture war.”
-- Linda Harvey, Mission America
Here’s what we are calling parents to do:
(1) Call the school and ask if the school has a ‘gay’ club, or ‘Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA).
(2) Ask if any students will be allowed to participate in the Day of Silence? If so, find out if the school is officially endorsing the event, allowing it to take place during the school day, allowing homosexual or other speakers to be brought in to speak before the student body – and any other questions you may have.
(3) Let Culture Campaign know if your school is participating in the DOS by emailing feedback@culturecampaign.com. This will help us provide everyone with accurate, up-to-date information about what is happening in their local school.
If your child’s school IS participating:
(4) Send a letter to the principle, school board members, and each of your children's teachers explaining why you will be keeping your child home. Here’s a sample letter you can either use verbatim, or edit to suit your situation.
(5) Keep your child home that day and tune into the Sandy Rios Show on WYLL AM1160 (listen live from 3-5pm) April 18th to listen to a special broadcast on the Day of Silence.
Culture Campaign is part of the Not Our Kids Coalition effort to protect America's youth from being pressured to approve of homosexual, bisexual, or "transgender" behavior. For a list of other participating organizations, please see the Not Our Kids website:
