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Students Wear Shirts With Anti-Gay Message on Day of Silence
kptv ^ | Apr 11, 2014 | Kimberly Eiten

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: christiansstudents; education; gay; homosexualagenda; oregon; speechcodes; teens; tshirt
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To: nickcarraway

Wake up and Stand Up...

Good on ya, kid.


21 posted on 04/12/2014 3:20:54 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: nickcarraway
support their freedom of speech

What a novel concept. Seems to be really rare these days...

22 posted on 04/12/2014 3:22:50 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: nickcarraway

Homeschooling yet?


23 posted on 04/12/2014 3:24:43 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: nickcarraway

Interesting how the student who disagrees with the students who wore the shirts keeps banging on about how they’re out of lock-step with the “consensus”-he’s drunk deeply of the marxist indoctrination of “consensus”.


24 posted on 04/12/2014 3:30:12 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: tophat9000

“Sodomite” is my word. It’s good enough for the KJV, it’s good enough for me.


25 posted on 04/12/2014 3:31:20 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Tax-chick

HA...Your statement would have likely been a little TOO radical for the promoters I think...(not me....plus, I think they were trying to make a play on the PRO-homo shirts sayings....but, couldn’t find it in the article...so not sure.


26 posted on 04/12/2014 3:32:40 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: nickcarraway

“I was just really sad because I take pride in this school,” senior Justin Low said.

GAY! And he’s the guy who will ask any shooter to put down the gun. While the guys with the t-shirts will try to do something to stop him.


27 posted on 04/12/2014 3:33:08 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Hugin

It always interests me how the left is now all about what they call “consensus” when, up to the point before they became the “establishment”, they were supposedly all about “diversity”.


28 posted on 04/12/2014 3:33:18 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: nickcarraway

Celebrating sexual deviancy in our schools is sick.


29 posted on 04/12/2014 3:33:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: nickcarraway
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30 posted on 04/12/2014 3:34:42 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)
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To: Tax-chick

I agree. It just goes to show how invidious and complete the indoctrination has been, when even we the opposition unconsciously have fallen prey to using their terms. Language does matter.


31 posted on 04/12/2014 3:35:06 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: nickcarraway
'Gay Day is not OK,' is not "Anti-Gay". It is opposing the idea of having a day to celebrate a guy putting his p**** into another guy's a**.

Which is rather disgusting.

32 posted on 04/12/2014 3:38:04 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: goodnesswins

Specificity about acts makes people very uncomfortable.

(I was typing a much longer post, and then my 2-year-old stepped on the on/off switch of the power-strip and everything went black ;-).


33 posted on 04/12/2014 3:43:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Entropy is high. Wear a hat!)
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To: mrsmel

“Gay” can be a fashion statement. The real point is man-on-man oral and anal sex.

If the “gay” person isn’t doing that, then he’s just confused and/or posing.


34 posted on 04/12/2014 3:44:40 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Entropy is high. Wear a hat!)
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To: nickcarraway

I did not believe for the life of me that folks would ever embrace a religion which practices eating fecal matter from the rectum of another . . . and call it being “gay.”


35 posted on 04/12/2014 3:47:45 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: mrsmel

It never just “Stays in the bedroom” because it is PART of an agenda driving cause to destroy conventional values...

It is about forsaking their own birthright in the name of pent up emotional aggression towards their own parents.


36 posted on 04/12/2014 3:49:37 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Pollster1
The idea of a “Day of Silence” amuses me

How about National "STFU Day"?

37 posted on 04/12/2014 3:49:57 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Exactly...The Love that dare not speak its’ name, is now the Love that won’t STFU.


38 posted on 04/12/2014 3:50:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tax-chick
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.

"Poop is not love."

39 posted on 04/12/2014 3:50:43 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Ben Mugged
If those are too outside-the-box, how about “Hot For Teacher” Day?

(...oops. Every day is “Hot For Teacher” Day in public schools.)

40 posted on 04/12/2014 3:52:40 PM PDT by RichInOC (...roll that beautiful Alex Van Halen drum solo...)
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