Posted on 04/12/2014 2:23:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The phrase a few students decided to wear to class on a T-shirt sparked a social media blitz at a local high school. The matching shirts share one controversial message.
"I just made it say 'Gay Day is not OK,' because I don't believe that it's OK," Oregon City High School student Alex Borho said.
He and just a few of his friends wore the shirts at the school where there are more than 2,000 students.
For some there, today was a day of silence. It's part of a national movement that only about 40 kids at Oregon City High School participated in.
It ends the much larger unity week that all the students there partake in. It's meant to be a time of dropping labels and breaking down social barriers.
"I don't have a big problem with gay people. It's just when they start parading around the school about how we have a day of silence for gays, lesbians and transvestites," Borho said. "We don't have a straight day."
Borho said he doesn't like the message associated with the day, intended to draw attention to bullying of gay students.
Other kids weren't staying silent about the shirts.
"I was just really sad because I take pride in this school," senior Justin Low said. "We're all students here and we're all trying to accomplish the same things: get through the four years, graduate and hopefully set ourselves for a bright future."
He's on the student council and helps organize unity week which, up until Friday, went as planned.
"It was just really sad because it's the last day of unity week and people took it the wrong way," he said.
Low and other students spent Friday evening setting up for a fundraiser for a classmate hurt in a car crash. That's how he wants his school represented: As students always willing to look out for one another, and not by five words on a T-shirt.
"That doesn't reflect our school, our student body or our school and community," Low said.
The kids who wore the shirts said they had heard from other students who support their freedom of speech. They said they would choose to wear them again.
Wake up and Stand Up...
Good on ya, kid.
What a novel concept. Seems to be really rare these days...
Homeschooling yet?
Interesting how the student who disagrees with the students who wore the shirts keeps banging on about how they’re out of lock-step with the “consensus”-he’s drunk deeply of the marxist indoctrination of “consensus”.
“Sodomite” is my word. It’s good enough for the KJV, it’s good enough for me.
HA...Your statement would have likely been a little TOO radical for the promoters I think...(not me....plus, I think they were trying to make a play on the PRO-homo shirts sayings....but, couldn’t find it in the article...so not sure.
“I was just really sad because I take pride in this school,” senior Justin Low said.
GAY! And he’s the guy who will ask any shooter to put down the gun. While the guys with the t-shirts will try to do something to stop him.
It always interests me how the left is now all about what they call “consensus” when, up to the point before they became the “establishment”, they were supposedly all about “diversity”.
Celebrating sexual deviancy in our schools is sick.
I agree. It just goes to show how invidious and complete the indoctrination has been, when even we the opposition unconsciously have fallen prey to using their terms. Language does matter.
Which is rather disgusting.
Specificity about acts makes people very uncomfortable.
(I was typing a much longer post, and then my 2-year-old stepped on the on/off switch of the power-strip and everything went black ;-).
“Gay” can be a fashion statement. The real point is man-on-man oral and anal sex.
If the “gay” person isn’t doing that, then he’s just confused and/or posing.
I did not believe for the life of me that folks would ever embrace a religion which practices eating fecal matter from the rectum of another . . . and call it being “gay.”
It never just “Stays in the bedroom” because it is PART of an agenda driving cause to destroy conventional values...
It is about forsaking their own birthright in the name of pent up emotional aggression towards their own parents.
How about National "STFU Day"?
Exactly...The Love that dare not speak its’ name, is now the Love that won’t STFU.
"Poop is not love."
(...oops. Every day is “Hot For Teacher” Day in public schools.)
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