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"to outwit or educate the opposition" (us), and to overthrow a conservative Christian value system that he considers "outdated" and "morally invalid."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.
I used to use the word "sodomite" and people became enraged. It's just a neutral, descriptive word, but no, it mustn't be uttered.
Dig deeper. They are often merely a front program to push the gay agenda. Seriously. It's shocking but true. Not always, but I would say usually. The beauty of this scam is that no one favors bullying. So who can speak out against it? But dig deeper. All the same garbage is there most of the time.
I would just silently issue them an in-school suspension.
The return of madg, perhaps?
Little J, not fair to play with Viking Kittie's mouse all by yourself...I'm filing a complaint. I suspect madg still remains mad.
"One" of them (if it was indeed two posters) used an immature style of writing; madg seemed like a (young) adult. The Wolf one did seem to have a more coherent writing style. Madg may still be reading FR. If I read DU consistently and could't post, it would be bad for my health, so I can imagine...
I just happened to catch them right away. Sometimes I catch 'em and the mods aren't very alert. The mods were on top of things immediately, maybe a slow night.
:-)
But if we are going to be "tolerant" of homosexuality, we must also be "tolerant" of intolerance.
Thus, BRAAD, whose official motto is: We're here, we're intolerant, and we'll kick you a$$.
Shalom.
Interesting. Thanks. I have no problem with leaving gays alone. I do not like it when they try to inflict their "values" (yeah, I know, they have no real "values") on ourt sociaty and especially the children.
I suspect that madg was actually a GLSEN operative - perhaps the big cheese himself.
Yeah, and we're BRAAD to the bone!
Hehehe...you said a$$...hehehe....
What ever he was, he wasn't some heckling bozo as may have been the case for Wolfy...not sure, never read his post.
What I do know is madg's IQ was somewhere north of 135, doesn't seem like wolfy was anywhere close.
You should have seen ArGee's old tagline about beer!
That one actually came from a thread about a beer that was going to be marketed toward homosexulas. I asked, "How will they market it to homosexuals, put it in an enema bag?" After all, they don't do things the normal way ...
Shalom.
LOL!
I like it.
Interesting. He certainly was full to the brim with venom and anger. He seemed as though he was on the very of psychosis almost.
Or am I thinking of tdadams?
;-]
I don't know about neutral, but at least it's a word. Homosexualist isn't a word. I still haven't had anyone explain to me why the use of all these isms and ists is the vogue now.
Ok, Islamism is a word. I wasn't familiar with it. However, Islamist still isn't a real word, but I see it used all the time around here, with no explanation as of y et.
and yet NOBODY in the MSM, NOT EVEN FOX, objects to any of this.
EVEN Rush is painfully silent on this issue.
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