Today, April 9, 2003, the daily routine of public schools and colleges across America will once again come to a halt as a minority of administrators and students demand America’s approval and acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle.
The 8th annual “Day of Silence” (which should be more appropriately called the “Day of Disruption) will be sponsored by GLSEN, the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
GLSEN is a “gay” activist organization which aggressively lobbies, intimidates and in some cases legally threatens America's public schools into teaching the acceptance and tolerance of the homosexual lifestyle.
The homosexual pressure group also demands that schools draft and enforce 'special rights' and protection policies for those teachers and students who consider themselves to be lesbian, “gay,” bisexual or transgendered (LGBT).
GLSEN in well known for organizing “Gay/Straight Alliances” (GSAs), better known as “gay” clubs, within public schools. They also establish “Safe Zones” for sexually confused students – rooms marked by an inverted pink triangle. The “gay” pink icon indicates students can go and openly speak to that teacher or administrator about their same-sex attractions. Rather than sharing the truth that no one is born “gay,” that in most cases homosexuality develops in one's childhood and that complete change to “healthy heterosexuality” is completely possible, the students are mislead.
The “gay” or homo — sympathetic counselor, in many cases following GLSEN guidelines, will usually affirm the questioning youths' 'gay' feelings and encourage them down the homosexual path. These counselors will then often refer the students to outside homosexual organizations and 'gay' clubs – without parental knowledge or consent.
Unfortunately for many of these children, this will be the beginning of the end.
GLSEN drew national attention several years back for co-sponsoring a controversial homosexual conference for teachers and students in Massachusetts called “Teach Out.” One of the day's many “gay” workshops focused specifically on “queer sex” for teenagers. Children as young as twelve years old were in attendance. A teacher secretly recorded the seminar and the audio tape was later released to the media, exposing the real sinister agenda behind the day's events. In the audio tape, the “gay” and lesbian adult instructors describe in explicit detail the “how to's” of homosexual sex, including a dangerous practice by many “gays” and lesbians known as “fisting.” While no physical sexual acts took place in the workshop, the children were asked to role play, pretending they were “gay,” and not to be ashamed to talk descriptively.
Under the guise of seeking to end “discrimination” against LGBT students in schools, GLSEN proselytizes administrators, students and even unsuspecting parents to further its deceptive plan. April's upcoming “Day of Silence” is just another one of their blatant attacks on the Judeo/Christian morals and principles this great nation was founded on.
Participants in the “Day of Silence” are instructed to refuse to talk throughout the entire school day. Rather than speaking, the protestors are encouraged to hand out flyers explaining their “silence for sin.”
Openly “gay” principals, teachers, students and sympathizers will lead the homosexual offensive by flooding the school hallways with posters and signs demanding the acceptance and tolerance of an immoral, deviant lifestyle.
At many schools, the rainbow flag — a symbol of “gay” and lesbian rebellion — will be hoisted, proudly flying for the entire day underneath America's stars and stripes. Students will also don their graphic and offensive shirts, billboarding the aberrant message, even louder than ever.
Finally at the end of the day's mayhem, students and administrators will be joined by “gay” supporters and guest speakers, converging in a variety of closing ceremonies called “Breaking the Silence,” boasting of their message of sin.
This year, GLSEN's website claims to have over 2,000 schools and nearly 100,000 participating students and faculty, although those numbers may well be exaggerated, even half that number would expose tens of thousands of students to poisonous propaganda.
The “gay” “Day of Silence” will no doubt cost tens of thousands of dollars in wasted time, salaries and resources — courtesy of your tax payer dollars and mine. But more importantly, how many lives of America's children will it cost before we open our eyes to the destructiveness of the militant 'gay' agenda?
GLSEN's “Day of Silence” is an outrage to all with any morals and values and both this organization and event deserve no place whatsoever in our children's public schools. Our youth are clearly the target of “gay” activists because they feel they can wipe out “homophobia” in one generation – by deceiving and desensitizing the children now.
“Gay” activists are like a freight train out of control, running over everyone and anyone in their paths, desperately seeking and desiring one thing: acceptance of their sin.
Christians have remained silent for far too long. How many more children need to be sacrificed on the altar of homosexuality?
As a former homosexual, my heart's desire is to share the truth about homosexuality with the world — especially the youth. Maybe I can spare a few from what I went through, maybe even save a few lives from the death sentence of AIDS. I've buried too many friends in the ground already.
I was a man once trapped and deceived by the “gay” lifestyle until I was 28 years old. Many of my 100+ partners are dead today from AIDS and it's a miracle that I'm even alive. I know it was the Lord who spared me from infection with HIV.
Thank God for the Christian who came to my door in 1990 with a Bible in her hand. She was not afraid to confront me and my homosexual sin with the only thing that could set me free: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm eternally grateful to her for not buying into the false gospel of “tolerance and acceptance.” I'm sure my wife and two little children today would thank her as well.
So, what can you do on April 9, 2003 — the “Day of Silence” — to make a difference?
Don't be silent. Share the truth with these students. No one is born “gay” — no one. In most all cases one's homosexuality has everything to do with childhood. But most importantly, Jesus Christ offers hope and complete deliverance.
Contact your area schools. See if they are allowing any of these pro-'gay' pep rallies/demonstrations to take place on school property, on your “dime.” If so, voice your objection to the superintendent, the principal, the teachers, the PTA or PTO — anyone you can — to stop this “gay” activism from taking place. Be vocal about your objection to the school condoning and promoting a lifestyle that is unnatural, unhealthy, immoral and in many cases — deadly.
Stephen Bennett is an official spokesman for “Truth Without Interruption Day,” the pro-family counter to GLSEN's “Day of Silence.” He is also a spokesman on the issue of homosexuality for Concerned Women For America in Washington, DC and for the American Family Association in Tupelo, MS. For further information or resources on what you can do in your community to take a pro-active stand against the promotion of homosexuality, please call (203) 926-6960 or visit SBMinistries.org
