Posted on 04/12/2014 2:23:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The phrase a few students decided to wear to class on a T-shirt sparked a social media blitz at a local high school. The matching shirts share one controversial message.
"I just made it say 'Gay Day is not OK,' because I don't believe that it's OK," Oregon City High School student Alex Borho said.
He and just a few of his friends wore the shirts at the school where there are more than 2,000 students.
For some there, today was a day of silence. It's part of a national movement that only about 40 kids at Oregon City High School participated in.
It ends the much larger unity week that all the students there partake in. It's meant to be a time of dropping labels and breaking down social barriers.
"I don't have a big problem with gay people. It's just when they start parading around the school about how we have a day of silence for gays, lesbians and transvestites," Borho said. "We don't have a straight day."
Borho said he doesn't like the message associated with the day, intended to draw attention to bullying of gay students.
Other kids weren't staying silent about the shirts.
"I was just really sad because I take pride in this school," senior Justin Low said. "We're all students here and we're all trying to accomplish the same things: get through the four years, graduate and hopefully set ourselves for a bright future."
He's on the student council and helps organize unity week which, up until Friday, went as planned.
"It was just really sad because it's the last day of unity week and people took it the wrong way," he said.
Low and other students spent Friday evening setting up for a fundraiser for a classmate hurt in a car crash. That's how he wants his school represented: As students always willing to look out for one another, and not by five words on a T-shirt.
"That doesn't reflect our school, our student body or our school and community," Low said.
The kids who wore the shirts said they had heard from other students who support their freedom of speech. They said they would choose to wear them again.
I think the school should hold a “bestiality” day and an “incest is best” day.
But how? How can you be sad if you're gay?
Good for you students. First Amendment verses gay pride advocacy any day. Advocate all you want but don't try and force me and mine to accept your sinful deviant ways buster. You can have all the First Amendment say all you want but try and deny me mine either.
Funny.
Hey, folks from the third world who fancy children must also be heard!
dissent is patriotic - Hillary Clinton
put that on the back
brains will fry
They decide to have a gay celebration day, but it is the other kids’ fault when they object...
Here’s an idea! If you don’t want people objecting to Gay Day, don’t have Gay Day!
How about “Bullies are People Too” Day?
Good!
When it comes to gay activism, I’m all for silence. Please.
It when someone declare the lie is the truth, when the government declare the lie is the truth, and went they both declare all must confess the lie is the truth..
That is the point you must take a stand or be broken to perpetual servitude to these powers ..
Because while it is he first lie you must confess..it will not be the last
According to our national (and media, and entertainment leaders) everyday is “gay day”.
He's on the student council and helps organize unity week which, up until Friday, went as planned.
Quit trying to indoctrinate your fellow students and get back to work then.
The idea of a “Day of Silence” amuses me - I’d like to see it just once. I don’t think there has been a day in the last two decades when gays could stay quiet about their sex lives.
My kids would have been sick and had a day out on the town!
arrest/jail those deniers...
Being “gay” does not exist. There are various forms of perversion with homosexuality being one of them. I REFUSE to allow the English language to be perverted by pervert. You want to be a homosexual then own it. Do not hide behind terms like “gay”
Just a tactical comment ... I don’t think, “Gay Day is not OK” is the best message: not clear enough.
I’d rather see, “I believe sodomy is wrong,” or “I find sodomy disgusting,” or “Our school should not celebrate sodomy,” or something like that. I think you have to go for the absolutely concrete message.
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