Comments on: Day of Silence legal tips; you do and don’t have the right to remain silent

By: » Groups call for walkout on Day of Silence - Blogger News Network

» Groups call for walkout on Day of Silence - Blogger News Network — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:32:12 +0000

[...] admits that the DOS does not mandate such exemption. As noted in the release and on my personal blog last year, DOS materials make this clear. In any event, it seems to me that a walkout will be more disruptive [...]

By: National Day of Avoidance — Warren Throckmorton

National Day of Avoidance — Warren Throckmorton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:07:28 +0000

[...] speaking and then admits that the DOS does not mandate such exemption. As noted in the release on this blog last year, DOS materials make this [...]

By: Zoe Brain

Zoe Brain — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:26:45 +0000

Those who say the DOS is a disruptive activity may not realize that the organizers communicate this to the participants.

I’m glad you said “may”, as although I’m sure many don’t know, others just don’t care. And will try to stop this information being publicised too.

You do know that many have been accused of being part of the “Homosexual Agenda” just for making this kind of thing known, don’t you? Please be careful it doesn’t happen to you.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:08:56 +0000

Warren, you should inform Mat Staver about these… Seems he hasn’t heard much about it.

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:00:28 +0000

Are you telling me that a few kids not talking in the halls and at lunch would be disruptive? You’d think it would be a blessed relief….

By: Boo

Boo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:37:43 +0000

Oh, and off topic, I heard your institution is picking up wacky ID pseudoscientist Guillermo Gonzalez. Good luck.

By: Boo

Boo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:35:53 +0000

Those who say the DOS is a disruptive activity may not realize that the organizers communicate this to the participants.

Those who say the DOS is a disruptive activity are often looking for any excuse to believe the worst about gay people.

By: jayhuck

jayhuck — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:47:40 +0000

Those who say the DOS is a disruptive activity…

I wonder who that could be?

By: Pathia

Pathia — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:18:25 +0000

Warren,

I’m surprised you haven’t. This is pretty core to the DOS. As far as I know every time we ever had it, we had a big meeting where it was explained it’s not an excuse to not talk in class, or to get out of a presentation etc. We only kept silent in the hallways between classes, and at lunch.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:30:02 +0000

Except for one sentence this is a fair and valuable piece. The sentence I question is:

A lot of schools this year are announcing that they aren’t sponsoring Day of Silence due to pressure from national anti-gay groups.

Do we really know why these schools aren’t officially sponsoring the DOS? Even if that were the reason, I don’t imagine many schools “announcing’ the fact that they caved in to anti-gay interest groups. I’ve heard some talk that schools didn’t want to ‘officially sponsor’ because that would open the door for them to have to ‘officially sponsor ‘ other groups and causes. So, it’s easier to allow students to participate in the DOS without providing an official endorsement.