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April 10, 2002 - PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Attorney Scott Lively, PFLC Director (Pro-Family Law Center)
"Gay Day of Silence" An Early Warning for School Boards, Parents
Today across America many schools are getting their first taste of "gay" militancy in the form of an attention-getting device mislabeled the "Day of Silence." Homosexual-identified students in so-called "Gay Straight Alliance Clubs" will wear pink gags and refuse to speak, in order to draw attention to a national political campaign to legitimize homosexuality in schools. They will spend the day passing out pro-homosexual propaganda and reveling in their power to hijack the school for their own ends. This is nothing less than ACT-Up-style street activism transplanted into the school house, but worse because students are a captive audience.
School boards and parents who have condoned the "Day of Silence" should be made aware of what will likely come next in the "gay" movement's ever-unfolding process of homosexualizing the youth. These predictions are based upon our observations of "gay" activism in the schools over several years.
1) The campus will become highly politicized around the issue of "gay rights."
Gay/Straight Alliance clubs are the invention of the politically aggressive Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a national organization of homosexual teachers. GLSEN's goal is to legitimize homosexuality to all schoolchildren in America. The GSA clubs serve as a vehicle to gain political support for so-called "gay-rights" among idealistic but intellectually immature future voters.
It is probable that one or more adult homosexual activists, possibly teachers, are responsible for the GSA club coming to the local school. This may be a violation of the Equal Access Act, which forbids non-student control of clubs granted under its auspices. These teachers should be identified and their activism exposed to public scrutiny.
2) Student free speech opposed to homosexuality will be chilled.
Through clever sophistry devised by national "gay" strategists, opponents of homosexuality are as cast as haters and "homophobes" whose opinions are dangerous to "gay" kids and must thus be changed or silenced. GSA students are trained by GLSEN to intimidate opponents through the use of a few carefully constructed rhetorical tricks: arguments which appear logically sound but which rely on hidden false assumptions and deliberately ambiguous terms. Other students and even most adults are not equipped to avoid these rhetorical traps.
One example is the use of the term "homophobia," a nonsense word which serves to characterize opposition to homosexuality as a psychological disorder. The use of the word is itself an intimidation tactic designed to put opponents of "gay rights" on the defensive. To prove this to yourself, challenge an advocate of "gay rights" to distinguish "homophobia" from legitimate opposition to homosexuality. What you will find is that the "gay" movement recognizes no legitimate opposition to its agenda. Thus what you thought was a term to escribe violent "gay-bashers" and hate-mongers is actually a term to lump all traditionally-minded people together as mentally ill. This is not fair debate; it is intellectual and emotional manipulation.
Other examples include but are not limited to a) arguments which assume an equivalency between homosexuality and heterosexuality (They are not equivalent. Heterosexuality describes the normal physiological function of the human reproductive system in which all male and female sexuality is rooted. Homosexuality is an objectively disordered condition that afflicts people who are by nature heterosexual.) b) arguments which give new political definitions to old familiar terms: "tolerance," "diversity," "multi-culturalism," "safe schools." c) arguments, usually incorporating the term "sexual orientation," which obscure the distinction between homosexual inclinations and homosexual conduct in discussions about protecting or respecting "gays and lesbians." d) arguments which rest upon unproved assumptions such as the hypothesis that homosexuals are "born that way." Another common false assumption is that teaching schoolchildren to respect each other requires homosexuality to b! e legitimized at school.
3) An increasing number of students will self-identify as "gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered" and/or will experiment with homosexuality.
GSA clubs provide a student peer-based gateway through which children can be drawn into the "gay" lifestyle. Children sample from life's "buffet" of possibilities, often without regard to the wisdom of their choices (e.g. tongue piercing). The more central to their peer culture is the behavioral option in question, the more likely students are to try it. In many schools "being gay" becomes a fad, especially among the more rebellious students.
Schools may face legal liability if their actions contributed to the death or injury of a child because of a sexually transmitted disease or other factors. Local "gay" activism on campus is often followed by the opening of a "Gay and Lesbian Youth Center" in the community which becomes a place where older homosexuals come to meet and mingle with the teens. Schools which facilitate student involvement with outside homosexual organizations could be exposed to litigation from parents whose children are then physically or sexually abused.
EXPOSING AND COUNTERING THE "GAY" AGENDA IN SCHOOLS
The Pro-Family Law Center has prepared a free publication titled the National Parents Advisory: The Danger of "Safe Schools." which helps parents and concerned citizens recognize and respond to the promotion of homosexuality in America's public schools.
To receive a free copy of the National Parents Advisory call 1-800-834-1508 or place your request at www.abidingtruth.com. Another free resource available for download at the website is the 28-page pro-family strategy guide, Why and How to Defeat the "Gay" Movement.
The Facts About "Just the Facts"
"In an ambitious attempt to pressure public schools into promoting homosexuality, a homosexual advocacy group has sent an authoritative-looking pamphlet replete with distortions and thinly veiled legal threats to every school district in the country.
"Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation & Youth" was produced by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educational Network (GLSEN), which aggressively promotes instruction about the homosexual lifestyle in elementary schools. A speaker at a 1998 GLSEN-sponsored conference in Boston, for example, advocated indoctrinating children as young as kindergarten age to accept homosexuality.1
If schools are cowed into implementing the recommendations of "Just the Facts," children will be encouraged to enter a lifestyle associated with disease and early death, one which has been condemned by every major religion and virtually all cultures from time immemorial. An evaluation of the assertions found in "Just the Facts" reveals that the booklet is more opinion than fact..."
"Other students and even most adults are not equipped to avoid these rhetorical traps."
Here are the links to two excellent web sites that provide information to teens who are faced with homosexual indoctrination:
Choice 4 Truth (http://www.choice4truth.com/)
They have two sections - one for parents and one for students/teens. Here's the link for student section:
http://www.choice4truth.com/index-teens.html
There is some really good material under the "Take the Student Pledge" section that kids can use to respond with when they are faced with queer propaganda.
Truthatschool.org (http://www.truthatschool.org/)
This site also has sections for parents and students, but is primarily a web site for students (with lots of good information).
From reply #82 above:
"... an official organizational sponsor, GLSEN. To ensure its success, GLSEN developed a first-ever Day of Silence Project Advisory Board..."
GLSEN is not a student-run organization.
From Tolerance to Affirmation: One School's Experience with a Gay-Affirmative Program
"Note the following pattern:
1. The existence of a dedicated activist on school grounds. The leader of the group was gay, and extremely dedicated to bringing the gay agenda to the school.
2. The group charter was created to be as non-threatening as and general possible. No students would be involved. Teachers were simply to be informed about it, and not coerced into joining..."