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"to outwit or educate the opposition" (us), and to overthrow a conservative Christian value system that he considers "outdated" and "morally invalid."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.
Separation of school and state BUMP!
Homeschool BUMP!
check your email ....
"national day of silence? coast to coast support within the schools? who paid for that coordination? why are the schools supporting a sexuality based agenda with a nationwide campaign?"
The answer is that the school boards are not in control, the NEA is and they just love to control the minds of children. It serves their purpose. Amen.
Hey that's cool. I hope you stick around.
PING! Amen.
My guess is that this article is the most notice the "event" has gotten - anywhere. While stuff like this is fun to rant and rave about for some folks, it isn't likely making much of a splash in the average school.
SW
For more on the extreme activism of homosexuality and the its intrusion into public school education, refer to the NEA's agenda, the "educators" unions' agenda, and Mass'infamous "FistGate" crisis.
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I would say that part of the problem is that the nuclear family and marriage for life have been replaced by 'non-traditional' as the norm. Children require more than a village populated by selfish parents and social engineering government workers. In my opinion, children are being sacrificed at the altar of the enlightened 'me' generation...
There's a load of research that homosexuality is not inborn.
There's the blatant fact that no two men can produce offspring, and no two women can produce offspring.
There's the blatant fact that boys have penises and girls have vaginas.
Yet we're supposed to ignore all of this and teach kids that it's perfectly reasonable for boys to "have sex" with boys, girls to "have sex" with girls, girls to think they're really boys, and boys to think they're really girls.
I used to think homosexuals were delusional but teachers seem to have it all over them for ignoring reality.
Shalom.
Shalom.
Exactly.
I knew I hijacked it from somewhere, I didn't realize it was from my OFST friend. Thanks!
Hey, life isn't all silliness (more's the pity). It can get pretty BRAAD, though. You heard of BRAAD?
Shalom.
Not yet, but I am sure you will educate me.
Oh they could, but too often, they don't.
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