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"to outwit or educate the opposition" (us), and to overthrow a conservative Christian value system that he considers "outdated" and "morally invalid."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.
From what I've noticed, students are 'free thinking' in that they want to hold opinions different from their parents and more like their peers or the 'cool' people. Most aren't truly free thinking.
Yeah, right. This will help their cause.
They're just giving the kids one more thing to make fun of them about.
"I mean, like, that's soooooo gay."
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The execrable "Day of Silence" is a very important battle in the war to homosexualize OUR children. Everyone who is concerned about the homosexual agenda should read this*, and all articles about what the homosexual promoters are doing and planning for the public schools; which, btw, are paid for by you and me.
Our elected representatives should be hearing from us about the homosexual indoctrination going on in schools. They should be hearing our POV loud, clear, and repeatedly.
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*And if you're not concerned, read it and maybe you will be.
Your point of view is a little unclear; are you in favor of the Day of Silence support the radical "gay" rights agenda, then?
Has it ever occurred to you that black people might be offended at being compared to sodomites?
Homosexuality is condemned as immoral, unnatural, unhealthy and just plain wrong in every single religion in the world, throughout history.
This is not just a Christian issue, Jewish issue, even Buddhist, Hindu, or Taoist issue. Common sense and medical facts tell us that that same sex practices lead to illness of all kinds, inlcuding fatal and incurable ones, and that those in the "gay" life are not gay at all, but suffer from higher numbers of drug and acohol abuse, partner violence, molest children at a much higher rate (and were more often molested themselves as children), have more emotional and mental disturbances, are MUCH more promiscous, and on and on.
If you want to have an opinion about homosexuality, you would be well served to read up on the subject. Try reading the articles listed here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1026551/posts?page=58
Homosexual Agenda Categorical Index of Links
Last but definitely not least, no one has to be "gay". There are tens of thousands of former homosexuals. There is a way out, no one is born "gay", despite the lying propaganda of those who want to slam and lock the door on those struggling with same sex desires.
Not to go off on a tangent, but what's with the misuse of ism and ist these days? Homosexualist is not a word, and neither is homosexualism, which I've seen elsewhere. This all started with Islamist, which isn't a word either. Surely we can write these articles and use real words like homosexual...
Apparently you and End the Wars signed up today to promote homosexuality, unless you are just one person signing up to appear as two so you can support "each other".
I posted a link above with many articles telling the truth about homosexuality. Many of them use figues and research from homosexual researchers. Please inform yourself, you can do that even after you are banned.
And pay especial attention to the sites that help people get free from homosexuality.
The word "homosexual" was invented in the mid/late 1800s by a homosexual in order to create a sense of special community among those who, until he invented that word, were called sodomites and pederasts.
Would you prefer we use those words instead?
Anti-bullying programs are a completely different ball of wax. I whole-heartedly support anti-bullying programs.
Yes, at least sodomite is a real word. Can you explain to me the the recent fascination with isms and ists? Islamist, Islamism, homosexualism, homosexualist, etc etc. What was wrong with Islamic, and homosexual? What am I missing here that that required these new conjugations?
BTW Islamism is a word. It's a political philosophy, not a sect.
Not all muslims believe in sharia law and not all sodomites believe in queering children.
A homoselxualist is one who, although not practicing same sex sodomy him or herslf, promotes it as a political and social goal. Homosexualism is the philosohpy and POV such people hold.
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