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Straight Kids Unite by: J. Matt Barber, May 08, 2008 On April 25, adult homosexual activists with the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held their annual “Day of Silence” (DOS) propaganda push. During DOS, teachers and students in roughly three thousand middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country are cynically used as culture war pawns in an effort to legitimize conventionally immoral, objectively deviant and demonstrably high-risk sexual behaviors. Kids and teachers are encouraged on DOS to disrupt the school day by refusing to speak in class as a show of support to students who self-identify...

On April 25, adult homosexual activists with the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held their annual “Day of Silence” (DOS) propaganda push. During DOS, teachers and students in roughly three thousand middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country are cynically used as culture war pawns in an effort to legitimize conventionally immoral, objectively deviant and demonstrably high-risk sexual behaviors. Kids and teachers are encouraged on DOS to disrupt the school day by refusing to speak in class as a show of support to students who self-identify as “GLBT” (No, GLBT has nothing to do with bacon,...

Day of Silence Soundtrack by: Malcolm A. Kline, April 25, 2008 As an alternative to the Day of Silence that the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community demands, and frequently receives, from schools, colleges and universities, we offer some retro music that you can listen to voluntarily at whatever volume you choose: 1.) That’s a Plenty 2.) Ain’t That A Kick In The Head 3.) Lady Is A Tramp 4.) Viva Las Vegas 5.) You May Be Right...

What if homosexuals staged a huge promotion of that sexual lifestyle choice, and no one came to see it? That's exactly what a coalition of organizations is proposing for April 25, this year's "Day of Silence," which is sponsored in public schools across the nation to promote homosexuality. "It's outrageous that our neighborhood schools would allow homosexual activism to intrude into the classroom," said Buddy Smith of the American Family Association, one of a long list of organizations asking parents to keep their students home from school on that day. "'Day of Silence' is about coercing students to repudiate traditional...

Friday, April 25, several thousand schools across the nation will be observing "Day of Silence (DOS)." DOS is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools. AFA is joining other family-oriented groups in urging parents to keep their children at home that day if their local school is participating in the DOS project. By remaining silent, the intent of the pro-homosexual students is to disrupt the classes while promoting the homosexual lifestyle. DOS is sponsored by an activist homosexual group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). DOS leads the students to believe that every person...

"Boycott the April DAY of SILENCE! Below is the list of schools we believe will be participating in the April 2008 "Day of silence." This pro-homosexual day communicates clear (and false) messages to ALL students in the school that: homosexuality is a worthy lifestyle; that it has few or no risks; that some people are "born" homosexual, including students; and that those who oppose this behavior are hateful and uninformed. We do NOT agree. The Day of Silence is, sadly, a day of deception.The facts do not support the implications noted above. Responsible parents and communities will oppose this message...

If your child's school observes the homosexual sponsored "Day of Silence," keep your child at home April 25. Friday, April 25, several thousand schools across the nation will be observing "Day of Silence (DOS)." DOS is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools. AFA is joining other family-oriented groups in urging parents to keep their children at home that day if their local school is participating in the DOS project. By remaining silent, the intent of the pro-homosexual students is to disrupt the classes while promoting the homosexual lifestyle. DOS is sponsored by an activist homosexual...

A U.S. District Court judge has been asked to reconsider his ruling in a 2004 free speech lawsuit filed by a former Poway High School student who was prohibited by school officials from expressing his opposition to a “Day of Silence” sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Tyler Harper, then a student at Poway High School, came to school wearing a T-shirt bearing the handwritten messages, “I will not accept what God has condemned” and “Homosexuality is shameful. Romans 1:27." School officials, claiming that Harper’s message could be disruptive, suspended him after he refused to take off...

<p>Two weeks ago Thursday, I agreed to participate in the “Day of Defiance” on April 25, which is a counter protest to the now national “Day of Silence”. This “observance” takes place in many high schools around late April nationwide. I planned on reading redacted paragraphs from the Little Black Book. I made this public statement on the MassResistance radio program, pre-recorded on Thursday, April 18.</p>

Students who wore attire with an offensive word in gay rights debate allowed to tone it down. Turns out there's yet another use for duct tape. Rio Linda High School students who were suspended last week for wearing offensive T-shirts to school can put them back on -- as long as they cover the word "sodomy" with duct tape. Several students were suspended last week for wearing T-shirts that said "Sodomy is sin." The shirts were a response to the national Day of Silence, a day of activism when some students take a daylong vow of silence in support of...

Annual 'Day of Silence' observed at Great Oak High (Temecula, CA) Thursday, April 19, 2007 By: JENNIFER KABBANY - Staff Writer TEMECULA -- Every year, tens of thousands of students across the nation participate in the Day of Silence, a nationwide event organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network that aims to fight against what the group says are common anti-gay biases in schools. While students at several Southwest County high schools annually participate in the event, Wednesday marked the first time since Great Oak High opened in 2004 that its students joined in. About 300 students at...

The administration at St. Ignatius High School may be backing the pro-homosexual Day of Silence, but the majority of students at St. Ignatius are not buying it. St. Ignatius students believe their classmates deserve the truth about the deadly and sinful homosexual lifestyle...not silence. Of course, Moms and Dads aren't paying thousands of dollars in tuition so that Junior can blow off school in protest of the homosexual "Day of Silence." ( See Not Out Kids) And so, the always inventive students at St. Ignatius High School have found a simple, serious and somber way to educate their classmates...

The president of a public high school's Christian Club is suing for the right to hold an event at the school to air his anti-homosexuality views. Jason Aufiero, a senior at Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, wants to hold a "Day of Truth" next week to present what he considers the biblical teaching against homosexuality. His lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Newark, is backed by the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative Christian legal group. Evangelical Christians have begun staging Day of Truth events in response to the national "Day of Silence" that some districts hold...

On April 18th, a number of public schools across the country will hold a so-called "Day of Silence." The day was originally promoted by an adult homosexual advocacy group, GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) with the intent of ending discrimination against students who were allegedly harassed because of alternative sexual lifestyles. Though I do not support special rights for homosexuals, I do believe the concept of silence in our schools concerning the subject of homosexuality is appropriate. In fact, I feel there should be silence 365 days a year--when it comes to the discussion of how individuals have...

ADF sponsors third annual opportunity for students to express Christian viewpoint on homosexual behavior; enrollment already up 32 percent. Christian students at high schools nationwide will have the opportunity to participate April 19 in the “Day of Truth,” designed to provide students a platform to counter the promotion of the homosexual agenda and peacefully express an opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective. Enrollment currently is up approximately 32 percent over last year. “Christian students should be allowed to express their viewpoint just like any other student. The Day of Truth is an opportunity for Christian students to respectfully present a...

An Illinois high school student is in federal court seeking the right to wear T-shirts that declare sentiments such as "Be happy, not gay." Heidi Zamecnik, of the Chicago suburb Naperville, wants to wear the shirt at school the day after the "Day of Silence," a nationwide observance April 19 to protest harassment of homosexuals in schools, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Zamecnik is asking the court to order her school, Neuqua Valley High, and Indian Prairie District 204 to allow her to express her family's "conviction that true happiness cannot be found through homosexual behavior." (Story continues below) The "Day...

Tomorrow is the Day of Silence - Tuesday, October 24 Tomorrow (Tuesday, October 24) is the 3rd annual Students Day of Silent Solidarity. For those of you participating, be aware that you will be joined by tens of thousands of pro-lifers across the country, and even around the world, for this amazing opportunity to stand up and be a voice. I would like to share an e-mail that I got today which really explains why we do this event. This is from a woman who is praying for all of you as you take part in the Day of...

“We applaud these school officials, who realized they cannot censor students based on their viewpoint, particularly when students promoting an opposing view are permitted to express their opinions freely,” said ADF Litigation Counsel Timothy Chandler. SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — A Springfield High School student told to remove a T-shirt stating her views on moral issues on the April 27 Day of Truth has received an apology from school officials, who informed her that she will be allowed to wear the shirt on campus in the future. On May 18, ADF attorneys sent a letter to the school administration advising them that...

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 How homosexual school clubs offer sex to students Posted: April 25, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern By Linda Harvey © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com The mainstream media is sure to spend time this next week on the subject of homosexuality and youth, precipitated by the observance in hundreds of high schools of the so-called "Day of Silence" on Wednesday, April 26. This is the day that students who are "GLBT" – that's "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered" – pledge to remain silent all day to draw attention to what they believe is discrimination. On Thursday, April 27, some schools will be...

Tomorrow is GLSEN's Day of Silence during which many middle schools and high schools will be focusing on the glories of sodomy. The American Family Association, the Family Research Council, Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America, and other pro-family groups have endorsed a call for a "Risk Audit" of all public schools - that is, an investigation to determine if they are collaborating with homosexual activists ot indoctrinate children with the view that the homosexual behavior is an acceptable lifestyle. The story is here: http://www.earnedmedia.org/em0424.htm

'Day of Truth' gives students way to counter homosexual agenda Apr 5, 2006 By Michael Foust Baptist Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--For the second year in a row, students across the nation this spring will join together to oppose the promotion of homosexuality in schools and to stand up for biblical values. The second annual Day of Truth, sponsored by the Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund, will take place April 27 -- the day after the Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. While the Day of Silence requires teens to remain silent...

Activist Claims School Censored Protest Against Homosexual Event By Mary Rettig April 12, 2005 (AgapePress) - Members of a high school conservative group in California are saying their First Amendment rights were violated when they tried to protest an upcoming pro-homosexual "Day of Silence" event. Tim Bueler, a senior at Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, is the founder and president of the High School Conservative Clubs of America. Last week the Rancho Cotate High School Conservative Club participated in a demonstration called the "Day of Truth." The conservative protest was designed to counter a pro-homosexual observance known as...

At the School Committee meeting Tuesday night, several parents and community members spoke out against what was called by one Lowell Street resident as the "homosexual agenda of Lexington High School." LHS was the location of adult protestng and students battling out agendas inside the school. The Day of Silence is a national effort to recognize those who feel disenfranchised because of the social bias against their sexual orientation.

Another GLSEN sponsored 'Day of Silence" has come and gone in America's indoctrination camps, aka public schools. The idea behind this event, which calls upon students to be disobediant and refuse to respond to teachers, is that the schools are not 'safe' for students who believe themselves to be something other than heterosexual. The 'safe schools' war cry is a lie. It's a facade behind which squats something altogether filthy and evil. In order to know the truth, we must first, identify their ideological worldview, and second, 'unmask' homosexuality. GLSEN, and their counterpart GSA (Gay Straight Alliance Network) are neo-Marxists....

A student-led effort to oppose homophobia at Homewood-Flossmoor High School may have backfired Tuesday when hundreds of students donned shirts with Christian and anti-gay slogans. Student activists who wore shirts emblazoned with the words "gay? fine by me" said they were outnumbered by peers wearing hateful messages and were targeted for harassment. The T-shirt drive was intended to create a safe place for gay students and to put a human face on gays, lesbians and their allies. But student journalists covering the event described the atmosphere as "tense." "It was crazy. There were all these students with gay shirts and...

By D. Craig MacCormack / Daily News Staff Thursday, April 14, 2005 FRAMINGHAM, MA -- Being different is a good thing. That was the message adopted by the high schoolers who spoke -- and, in one case, said in sign language -- yesterday at the premeeting for the annual MetroWest prayer breakfast, which is slated for April 29 at the Sheraton Framingham. One of the students from 15 area schools will be chosen to give a five-minute speech at the breakfast. Yesterday was the chance for all of the speakers to say why they were different and what they thought...

A national event called the "Day of Silence" always gets a bit noisy as it receives both cheers and jeers. Several high schools in Clark County participated in the event Wednesday. The annual event is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network in cooperation with the United States Student Association, a national lobbying group. GLSEN says that this year's protest of discrimination against lesbians and gays attracted students in nearly 4,000 schools nationwide. Students who participate take a vow of silence for the day to bring attention to the bullying and isolation that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students...

Politicizing of schools continues By: RICK REISS - For The Californian Parents, keep the Pepto-Bismal nearby. Today while your children attend college, high school and even middle school, they will be subjected to more political indoctrination courtesy of another left-wing pressure group. Today's topic of indoctrination is homosexuality. This is brought to you by the activists at the "Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network." The GLSEN has declared today a "Day of Silence" to advance their homosexual agenda.

NEW YORK &#8212; Irked by the success of the nationwide Day of Silence (search), which seeks to combat anti-gay bias in schools, conservative activists are launching a counter-event this week called the Day of Truth (search) aimed at mobilizing students who believe homosexuality is sinful. Participating students are being offered T-shirts with the slogan "The Truth Cannot be Silenced" and cards to pass out to classmates Thursday &#8212; the day following the Day of Silence &#8212; declaring their unwillingness to condone "detrimental personal and social behavior." The driving force behind the Day of Truth is the Alliance Defense Fund (search),...

Teach Respect?By Warren Throckmorton (04/12/05) Well, soon schools will be taking another well deserved break from academics and plunge headlong into political advocacy. Yes, Virginia there is a Day of Silence and it is coming to a school near you. The DOS is an advocacy day sponsored by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network. According to GLSEN’s website, the DOS will occur on April 13 and involve 4,000 schools and 450,000 students and teachers. During the school day, those participating will refuse to speak, even during class. Students hand out cards calling attention to what GLSEN calls “the bias and...

On the homosexual “Day of Silence” a year ago, Chase Harper, a student at Poway High School in California, wore a t-shirt to school expressing his view that homosexuality is wrong. He was sent home that day, but the Scottsdale-based Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) sued the school district on his behalf. The “Day of Silence,” started in 1996 by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), is a day when homosexual students protest silently what they consider to be the endangerment and persecution of students of different sexual orientations. According to GLSEN’s website, more than 1,900 schools nationwide and...

At first, it was a matter of obvious academic incompetence that compelled so many parents in America to seek alternatives (e.g., private schooling, homeschooling). The growing motivation today for dumping public education is no longer just about academics. It is now about something much more fundamental: safety. With public school educators occasionally pushing the latest waive of social engineering (e.g., promoting homosexuality), more and more parents have become alarmed. What once was an occasional leak in the dam has now become a gushing breach of parental trust. For example, the pro-homosexual-transsexual movement has successfully pushed the "Day of Silence" on...

IFI Responds to 'Day of Silence': Schools Should Focus on Academics, Not Take Sides in Homosexuality Debate 4/21/2004 11:53:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Metro Desk Contact: Peter LaBarbera, 630-717-7631 or 630-546-4439, or David Smith, 773-405-6813, both of the Illinois Family Institute, Web: http://www.illinoisfamily.org GLEN ELLYN, Ill., April 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is taking steps in Illinois to counter the "Day of Silence"-a national propaganda event organized by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to promote the acceptance of homosexuality and "transgenderism" (gender confusion) in schools. Today, students in over 100 Illinois schools are reportedly...

Please forward to interested friends and students. Next Wednesday, schools throughout the nation will allow some students to observe what is being called a "Day of Silence" to highlight the "silencing" of the homosexual viewpoint. Boy, is this a stretch of the truth! What is really needed is more accurate information about the dangers of homosexuality, the reality of change and re-direction away from that lifestyle, and the courage to stand up and say these things-- knowing full well this is not the "hate" that will be claimed. Because of an avalanche of other priorities, we haven't organized anything official...

<p>The Day of Silence is a nationally celebrated annual event, protesting the silence that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students, and their supporters, have been forced into through discrimination and harassment.</p> <p>Canyon Del Oro and many other schools across the country participate in this Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network and United States Student Association mission. The event is student-driven and anyone may participate; students don't have to be a member of the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA).</p>

"Day of Silence" is coming this Friday, to a public school near you! The "Day of Silence" is a day on which people of all sexual orientations who support homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender rights (does not include heterosexual relationships or marriage) take a 9-hour vow of silence in the classroom to protest the alleged discrimination of these individuals.

Last weekend, SpectrUM hosted the first annual Florida Collegiate Pride Coalition Student Conference, the first statewide conference to address gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer issues [GLBTQ]. Twelve organizations from universities across the state, including UF, UCF and FIU, participated in the conference. "This conference will help us greatly because we will be able to join together, get more people behind what we do and have more of a force on campus," Dara Solomon, SpectrUM public relations chair, said. The conference, themed "Connections," encouraged GLBTQ students to have a unified and powerful voice on campus. Events included a series of...

TRUTH WITHOUT INTERRUPTION DAY ( www.choice4truth.com/twid.htm ) On April 21, homosexual activists and their supporters will hold "Day of Silence" events on high school and college campuses throughout the country, sponsored by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. (For more details, see www.dayofsilence.org.) It will be a silent vigil and the usual victimhood and "gay" rights claims. Participants will hand out material promoting homosexuality, bisexuality and cross-dressing. How would you like to hold a counter-event the same day? We are calling it the Truth Without Interruption Day! Finally - a chance to get a word in edgewise! If...

Denver Post al knight A silly way to protest By Al Knight Denver Post Columnist Sunday, April 13, 2003 - The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network picked a bad day to stage its "Day of Silence" protest at thousands of the nation's schools, including 29 in Colorado. By picking Wednesday, the "Day of Silence" was badly overshadowed by events in Iraq, which former vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman dubbed "Victory in Iraq Day." The immediate effect of the bad timing was to push the public-school protest - designed to create "empathy" for the plight of gay, lesbian, bisexual and...

Teen Girl Beaten After Anti-Gay Comments Student Recovering In Hospital With Injuries POSTED: 7:07 a.m. EDT April 14, 2003 CONCORD, Mass. -- Police in Concord are investigating whether a beating that left a 16-year-old girl bleeding and unconscious in front of her house is connected to her encounter a day earlier with a student who allegedly made anti-gay comments toward her. Caitlin Meuse was walking home from her friend's house Thursday evening when she was apparently struck in the head and face with a blunt object. She is recovering at Boston Medical Center from injuries including a head injury, missing...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 10, 2002 For more information contact: Sharone Carmona, (202) 547-8570Homosexual ‘Day Of Silence’Is Day Of Oppression For Critics Of Sodomy Washington, DC – "Today’s homosexual sponsored ‘Day of Silence’ on high school campuses was in actuality a day of oppression for anyone who opposes the promotion of sodomy among our children," said Traditional Values Coalition Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. "The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN) own organizing manual reveals its hidden agenda of targeting the critics of homosexuality on school campuses." GLSEN claims to have held its "Day of Silence" on hundreds...