If Your School Allows ‘Day of Silence’ - Keep Your Child Home this Friday

This Friday (April 15), high schools (and many middle schools) across the U.S. will be hosting the LGBT movement’s annual “Day of Silence” (DOS) as championed by the New York City based Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). [http://www.dayofsilence.org/]

During this all-day event, student activists and even school officials will encourage students to be silent for the entire day as a sign of solidarity with the international LGBT movement.  Students are encouraged to wear special pro-homosexual badges, stickers, and bracelets - which are often handed out at the school entrances that day.  There are also pro-LGBT posters in the hallways, handouts, and even workshops.

Although the adult activists claim that DOS is put together by “students,” it is (in fact) organized behind the scenes by adults with the cooperation of school officials.  They are encouraged to use materials and instructions from GLSEN.

Question: Do you think this is the proper role of government-subsidized schools?  Should LGBT activists be able to hijack classrooms for their agenda?  Are these not the same schools that outlawed a ‘moment of silence’ (previously known as prayer) yet will sanction a “day of silence”?

Parents & Grandparents: TAKE ACTION –

1. Call your local schools and ask whether they permit students or teachers to remain silent in the classroom on “Day of Silence.”  [Do not ask any administrator, school board member, or teacher if the school sponsors, endorses, or supports DOS. Schools do not technically sponsor the Day of Silence.   Technically, it is students - often students in the gay-straight alliance - who sponsor it.  Many administrators will tell you that they do not sponsor the DOS when, in fact, they do permit students and sometimes even teachers to remain silent during instructional time.]  Also ask administrators whether they permit teachers to create lesson plans to accommodate student silence.

2. Find out what date the event is planned for your school and warn other parents.  [The national date in 2016 is Friday, April 15, but some schools observe DOS on a different date.]

3. Inform the school of your intention to keep your children home on that date and explain why.  [visit www.doswalkout.net for complete information on opposing DOS.]

The time has long since passed for Bible-believing people to say – “Enough is enough!  I will no longer tolerate lifestyles contrary to Creator’s Word.  I don’t have to compromise my religious convictions to accommodate the personal preferences of these perverted few.  I’m done traveling this slippery slope that only leads to a culture of death and destruction.  In the words of the reformer Martin Luther – ‘Here I stand.  I can do no other.’”

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel