The Day of Silence goal is to exploit the tender sympathies of kids to promote approval of homosexuality and gender confusion

The Day of Silence is supposedly led
by students, but actually led by the Gay,
Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which describes itself as
“championing LGBT issues in K-12 education since 1990.” Did you catch that– “K
through 12”? Younger and younger students are the target of this group. The
younger, the better because they are easier to manipulate.

The Day of Silence goal is not, as I am told frequently by outraged emails
from misinformed students, to help end all bullying. The goal is to exploit the
tender sympathies of kids to promote approval of homosexuality and gender
confusion. The agenda is everything; Judeo-Christian morality is the enemy; and
sadly, kids are the tools.

GLSEN teaches students that homosexuals and gender-confused people are
“silenced” and under persecution by those who object to this behavior, and that
traditional moral beliefs cause bullying. No hard, objective data exists to
support this contention, and the event itself causes hostility, confusion, and
division.

Here are ten reasons I believe Christian students in particular should refuse
to honor this event by school attendance and why Christian teachers should plan
activities that require students to verbally participate:

1. A silent protest in support of immoral, God-dishonoring behavior is in
itself profoundly deceptive. All sexual behavior outside man/woman marriage is
sinful in God’s eyes. Why should Christian students and teachers be in the
position of accommodating this flagrant violation of their principles? Teachers
would not want polyamorous students to be bullied, but would schools permit
students to participate in a classroom protest in support of polyamory?

2. Any explicit or implicit message encouraging
teens and even younger students to view homosexual acts as normative or moral is
not “social justice” or “tolerance,” but, in reality, child corruption.

3. Allowing classroom silence to honor the Day of Silence unleashes
tremendous peer pressure for students and even teachers to endorse sexual
immorality, or be considered “enemies” of those peers and teachers proudly
involved in homosexuality. This puts people of faith in the position of
violating Christian doctrine through tacit approval (Romans 16:17-18; Ephesians
5:11). They are also intimidated into self-censorship, which undermines both
fundamental First Amendment and educational principles.

4. The Day of Silence fosters hostile and bigoted attitudes toward Christians
and others with traditional moral beliefs; spreads inaccurate and harmful
information; and promotes unproven, non-factual Leftist moral beliefs as
objective truths.

5. Using legitimate concerns about bullying and teen suicide to promote
approval of homosexuality in schools is educational malpractice. It’s totally
unnecessary to stop bullying and prevent harm to students, and Christians should
not be a party to this gross distortion of a genuine problem. No one needs to
affirm homosexuality or gender-confusion in order to prevent bullying, but GLSEN
routinely takes this deceitful position.

6. Teachers know real bullying when they see it, and most teachers address
it. But GLSEN and the Day of Silence pressure teachers not merely to address
bullying behavior but to affirm Leftist moral and political beliefs. Since when
did it become the job of government employees to become public relations agents
for Leftist moral propositions or the good reputation of homosexuality?
Stopping bullying can be accomplished without becoming champions of the
non-factual assumptions of the homosexuality-affirming movement.

7. There are legitimate lessons students should learn about prejudice and
bias. But Day of Silence promoters deceptively link moral objections about
homosexuality to racial discrimination or anti-Semitism in an attempt to
legitimize the pro-homosexual ideology and portray homosexuals as perennial
victims, while censoring through social pressure all dissenting views.

8. Teachers have used the DOS to inappropriately become classroom advocates
and models of this deviant behavior. In one Ohio school, a teacher used a Power
Point presentation to tell students about her “gay” support and even disclosed
to students that she was a lesbian, without prior parental notification or
permission from her principal.

9. The health and lifestyle risks of homosexuality are virtually never shared
on the Day of Silence. Instead, students are given the deceitful impression that
homosexuality is just as safe and worthy an identity as heterosexual dating and
marriage. The notion that same-sex attraction and volitional acts constitute an
identity worthy of affirmation is not a fact, and government employees have no
right, either explicitly or implicitly, to promote it to other people’s
children.

10. The DOS message inhibits Christians from witnessing to their peers caught
up in homosexuality or gender confusion. There is salvation through Jesus Christ
and the hope of leaving this sin behind. Calling homosexuality a sin on the Day
of Silence would be considered “hateful,” when it is actually God-honoring and
respectful to the hearer. It may lead them to an eternal home with God. But that
won’t happen if the truth is suppressed, which it always is on the Day of
Silence. Parents, keep your children home that day. If your children have the
courage to witness, they can do it on another day when perhaps they will have a
fair chance of being heard.