Posted on 04/23/2007 12:39:52 AM PDT by dbehsman
A Christian student has been punished by his Michigan high school for demonstrating opposition to a school event celebrating the homosexual lifestyle. The boy's father, a pastor, says he's frustrated the rights of Christian students are being constantly trampled on campus.
Oakridge High School in Muskegon, Michigan, is one of many schools across the U.S. that took part in Wednesday's "National Day of Silence" -- an event promoted heavily by homosexual activist groups, which view it as a day to protest alleged discrimination faced by students who identify as "gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT)." At Oakridge High, duct tape was passed out for students to wear over their lips as a way to show solidarity with homosexual students who are purportedly suffering in silence.
John Gardner is pastor of Holton Family Life Worship Center in Holton, a community of approximately 2,500 about 17 miles northeast of Muskegon. Pastor Gardner says his 15-year-old son David, a student at Oakridge High, was suspended for a day by the school because he wrote with a black marker "I'm straight" on a piece of duct tape and attached it to his shirt. He explains that David donned the message to voice his objection to the school's participation in the Day of Silence.
"They asked him, at that point, to take it off," Gardner says, "and David [asked] why do the rest of the kids in the class get to wear theirs and I can't wear something about what I believe?" According to the pastor, the teacher then instructed David to remove the message or he would be "kicked out" of class. "And he said, 'Well then, you'll have to kick me out' -- and that's what they did," says David's father.
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LOL
That became inevitable the day the women's suffrage amendment was declared ratified. Adult citizens in any society that does not selectively abort its girls will be majority female and in any such society females will ultimately rule, even while they do not yet occupy a majority of the seats of power because their votes are sought by office-seekers and policies will inexorably swing toward feminine "feelings."
That bodes ill for the future because America's deadly rival China, will remain a masculine society for some time into the future, at least another generation and probably several. A masculine society with an overabundance of young males who cannot get wives is a warlike and expansionist society. Its government must keep those young men busy doing extreme things to burn off their excess energy lest it rises up against the state.
And that is not even talking about Islamic society which is Masculine because its females share a status with sheep and cattle.
It is called the homosexualization of society and is a major project of the left in America.
AMEN!
“...suffering in silence.”
Last time I checked “suffering in silence” didn’t involve having an official school sanctioned holiday about it. This is like praising Al Sharpton for being forgiving of Imus.
Discrimination is in the eye of the beholder apparently in that school. This is a clear cut case of just that...but they don’t get it since their eyes are blinded to anything that isnt self serving. Thats a surprise...NOT
Later pingout.
So how much longer before heterosexuality is declared illegal in Michigan?
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!
NO more calls, please.
We have a winner!
Sue them.
And the state sponsored indoctrination of the captive audience continues.
No, blow out the school board at the next election, then hold a long, long meeting after the swearing-in, and make a long, long, long list of teachers and administrators who have been the movers and perps behind this stuff -- then let the pogroms begin.
Purge.
Teachers unions.....the devil incarnate : )
“And just for the record it’s a damned shame that the damages can’t come out of this idiot principals pocket or pension”
The administrators need to be sued along with the rest.
Scum.
How about an X with red tape, with the words "EXIT ONLY."
Not much chance of that. Usually no more than three or four parents in a given school district care about anything more than that their kids are awarded good grades or play football, certainly not enough to affect an election. In this town we had such an election a few years ago and the new school board found that the whole system had turned opaque on them. They got no cooperation from anyone and after a few months one could not distinguish them from the old school board.
I believe most principles are required to join professional organizations that provide insurance to the principal for just such suits.
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