Posted on 04/12/2005 11:52:33 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
(Editor’s note: The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has slated April 13 as the Day of Silence. School kids who are sympathetic to their peers who are perceived as “gay” are supposed to remain silent the entire day, regardless of how disruptive this is for the other students. It’s part of a full-court press to use the schools to normalize homosexuality. In the commentary/book review below, Christian free-lance writer Lee Duigon gives us a glimpse of what they have in mind. A link to a CWA resource paper to counter the Day of Silence is at the bottom. )
Sexual Orientation and School Policy by Dr. Ian K. Macgillivray
(Rowan and Littlefield, New York, 2004)
Is public education to be so "inclusive" that it excludes the majority?
According to a new book by James Madison University education professor Dr. Ian K. Macgillivray, yeah, sure, if that's what it takes for the homosexual movement to prevail in America.
Macgillivray is more than just a professor. He's an out-and-out advocate of homosexual militancy who has written many books and articles on the subject; a list is available at queertheory.com.
Revolutionaries always publish their plans in advance, and the rest of us always laugh them off. Europeans never took Hitler’s Mein Kampf seriously. America ignores the many documents in which the homosexualists outline their plans for this country and even reveal their tactics – as Macgillivray does in Sexual Orientation and School Policy.
For him, the public schools are to be used "to outwit or educate the opposition" (us), and to overthrow a conservative Christian value system that he considers "outdated" and "morally invalid."
As to the tactics, it's all very simple. First you set up a program or an organization and give it a name and a mission that nobody--least of all a Christian who's already shy about being pilloried as a hatemonger--will object to. Macgillivray likes a "Safe Schools Coalition." Everybody wants safe schools. No one wants to see kids bullied or assaulted because they happen to be "gay."
“By portraying homosexuality as a victim class, the activists put anyone with traditional values on the defensive,” said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute. “The approach is brilliant; it appeals to the best in us, the part that wants to defend the underdog. But increasingly, the ‘underdogs’ are becoming the bullies, using school programs and compliant bureaucracy.”
“We can and should teach civility without also promoting homosexuality, but parents and teachers are given a stark choice: go along with the pro-homosexual programs or be blamed for any incident involving a ‘gay’ kid.”
The school will also need a "non-discrimination policy," and no one will object to non-discrimination.
Now, how do we create safe schools where there's little evidence of discrimination? Work on the hearts and minds of those who are guilty of making schools unsafe, who practice discrimination — or, rather, work on the hearts and minds of their children. Turn them against the idea of "a heterosexual cultural norm." After all, as Macgillivray says, "Modernity is against moral conservatives."
Employ "restorative justice" in the classroom. It's not just about wiping out supposed violence against homosexuals; it's about "superseding a conservative heterosexual hegemony." (Don't hold your breath waiting for actual evidence of "violence" massively directed against "gays." That's one of those things you're supposed to take on faith.)
"Education" is to liberate children from the hetero cultural norm. Macgillivray admits that this is to be at the expense of the conservatives. There will be "winners and losers" in this battle, he says, and he aims to make sure his side wins. What life will be like under a homosexual cultural norm is not something I want to find out.
Meanwhile, wherever they encounter opposition, the homosexualists are to play the "bigotry" card. If you oppose them, you want violent schools, you probably think "gay" teenagers are to be stoned, blah-blah.
Macgillivray worries about Christians pulling their kids out of these schools. In the long run, he doesn't care if there's no one left in them but the children of parents who want their offspring to buy into the homosexual vision. He'd rather Christians left their children in public school to be "re-educated" as to the invalidity of their parents' moral and religious beliefs, but he'll take what he can get.
As the National Day of Silence looms, in which schools from coast to coast compel children to show their "solidarity" with the homosexual quest to reshape American life and morality, it would be well for parents to make some noise.
Millions of Christian parents have removed their children from the baneful influence of the public schools. Many millions more have not.
Whatever their reasons for leaving the children in these schools, there is no reason not to elect school board members who will put a stop to the Day of Silence and all the rest of it. Maybe if the schools were not so busy sexualizing children, they might find time to teach them how to read.
Why do people allow sick perverts to define what is normal?
How, pray tell, should school boards put a stop to students not talking?
"You! Speak!"
Require a verbal exam on that day for each student. Make it count for 20% of the semester grade.
I don't remember the last time schools had a similar thing for support of reading.
i find it pretty hard to believe there could be nationwide support for this. then again, i'm no longer in the public school system.
I think the Day of Silence is a wonderful idea. Let's try to talk the leftists into making it a year-long event.
The thing that makes me sick is that the parents are letting it happen.
>>Require a verbal exam on that day for each student. Make it count for 20% of the semester grade<<
Excellent idea!
You can't force them. But you can grade them accordingly if they refuse to properly participate in class.
My bet is a lot of parents are not aware of it. Did the schools send home notices about this?
Best response is not to respond. I don't care if they all sit around with duct tape on their mouths.
Oh, go check out girlsinc.org (or .com ??). You can link to that from the U.S. Dept of Education website (I think via the afterschool program links). You don't really have to look too hard to locate the lesbian stuff. It's worse than people think.
Isn't that why they call it "holy matrimony"?
I like it! National Day of Silence = National Oral Quiz Day!
...Or perhaps I'm just too "heteronormative".
Have you been "zotted" previously?
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