Soon (April 17), the Day of Silence will be observed around the country and some conservative groups are not happy about it. A coalition featuring the American Family Association and the Concerned Women for America is suggesting students walkout of school to protest the disruption of silence by same-sex attracted students. Not a hint irony there, I tell you.
Again this year, I suggest an alternative to a walkout. Go on over to the Golden Rule Pledge and check out the plan there.
If you are on Facebook, you can join the initiative there as well. I will have more through the next several days, but I wanted to get the word out here today…
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By allowing our children in school on the Day of Silence, we may – and I emphasise may be seen as giving some kind of approval to homosexuality.
But by keeping them away, we will definitely be seen as approving of bullying in school, as long as it ‘straightens the gay kids out”. Even if they’re not actually gay, and even if some of them die as the result.
Here is what one commentator wrote;
I urge everyone to examine their consciences. To what extent are these accusations true? How many who kept their children away did so because they secretly approve of such social sanction, if it will “save some souls’? How many see Homosexuality as so inherently evil that no amount of cruelty, and no number of dead children, is too high a price to pay to prevent it? And if so, to what extent is that justified by scripture, and to what extent it is merely a consequence of lack of charity and even hatred “in God’s name”?
And how many like this commentator will look at the Church, and see that those most sanctimonious in professing their Faith are like the tree that bears evil fruit. “By their fruits shall ye know them”. How many will turn away from God as the result? How many will get such a terribly distorted view of the Church, a view that the evidence supports?
I am no Christian, but even I can see just how completely wrong this commentator is in blaming religion, and the Church. I cannot bring myself to condemn their views though, as there is an uncomfortable amount of truth in the accusations.
Please look into your hearts, examine your consciences, and pray. Whether for guidance, or for forgiveness. For myself, I could do with a lot of both. More so than most, I fear.
Yeah, I just don’t understand why the need to protest. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect even when you disagree.
Why protest the “day of silence?” I don’t understand this. Even if you don’t agree with homosexuality, don’t you agree that kids should not be bullied or harassed no matter what?
I would join the day of silence as a christian. It’s the right thing to do.
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