Is this happening at your child's school?
Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 09:16AM by Tom Sutliffe
If your child's school observes the homosexual sponsored "Day of Silence, (DOS)" keep your child at home April 25, 2008.
Friday, April 25, several thousand schools across the nation will be observing "Day of Silence (DOS)." DOS is a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools. By remaining silent, the intent of the pro-homosexual students is to disrupt the classes while promoting the homosexual lifestyle.
DOS is sponsored by an activist homosexual group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. DOS leads the students to believe that every person who identifies as a homosexual, bisexual or cross-dresser is a victim of ongoing, unrelenting harassment and hate. Students are taught that homosexuality is a worthy lifestyle, homosexuality has few or no risks, and individuals are born homosexual and cannot change. Those who oppose such teaching are characterized as ignorant and hateful bigots.
Be sure of the date that DOS is planned for your school. (The national date is April 25, but some schools observe DOS on a different date.) Call your school and see if they plan to celebrate DOS and if so, on what date.
These are your schools do as you choose! do as you choose!
Here is a partial list of the schools in New Hampshire which are presently expected to participate in DOS
ALVIRNE HIGH SCHOOL
BREWSTER ACADEMY
CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL
COE-BROWN SCHOOL
CONCORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
DERRYFIELD SCHOOL
DOVER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
HILLSBORO-DEERING HIGH SCHOOL
HOPKINTON HIGH SCHOOL
KEENE HIGH SCHOOL
KINGSWOOD REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL
LONDONDERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MANCHESTER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
MANCHESTER MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
MASCENIC REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
MERRIMACK HIGH SCHOOL
NASHUA HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH
NASHUA HIGH SCHOOL- SOUTH
NEW HAMPTON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
NEWMARKET JR-SR HIGH
OYSTER RIVER HIGH SCHOOL
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY
PINKERTON ACADEMY
PLYMOUTH REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
PORTSMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
SALEM HIGH SCHOOL
SOMERSWORTH HIGH SCHOOL
SPAULDING HIGH SCHOOL
ST PAUL'S SCHOOL
TIMBERLANE REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
WINNACUNNET HIGH SCHOOL
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Reader Comments (14)
You two secular progressives played right into my hands, as expected!
Tom Sutliffe
Maybe kids should just PRAY during the moment of silence - out loud of course.
Maybe kids should just PRAY during the moment of silence - out loud of course.
Your missing the point I am afraid. This IS the whole purpose of public school.
Some people spout off about how unimportant their sex life should be but want to cram it down your kid's throat.
At a public school they can try to do it and have you trapped into paying for it.
They are not adult enough to keep it out of other peoples children's lives.
And they are so angry about it as well. Ever notice that? Must come with the turf.
"Founded in 1996, the Day of Silence® has become the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. From the first-ever Day of Silence® at the University of Virginia in 1996, to the organizing efforts in over 1,900 middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities across the country in 2002, its textured history reflects its diversity in both numbers and reach."
I believe the purpose of this is to communicate tolerance and that no one deserves to be abused because they are different. It is to promote safe schools, which all children deserve. It is not to teach about peoples sex lives.
Tolerance? What a terrible thing for kids to first ask for and then practice!
So the kids can pray or read a Bible -
out loud as they had for hundreds of years?
Let's say this praying thing is student generated like at football games before a big play. Can you be tolerant of that?
Because I think, If I remember correctly, THAT freedom has come to a screeching halt at schools all over America - land of the tolerant. But of course it was progressives that screamed the loudest about that practice.
So it was your intention all along to exchange this form of special honor of someone's sexual practices instead of religion. This is what I kinda think.
Now I get it.
One other question.
How come you don't spend as much time working with, say, the elderly, than you do celebrating sexual diversity with other people's young kids?
This always interests me how it is so necessary to take a bus load of public school kids to a Gay Pride parade, or have moment of silence gig celebrating sexual something or other at a public school but you let the poor elderly shut-ins sit home.
Where's the compassion?
What are you talking about? Your tangents are too numerous, and sometimes hard to connect back to the subject. No, I don't disagree with school prayer generated by the students who wish to participate. As far as your reference to the elderly and taking kids to gay pride events? As far as I know have nothing to do with kids deciding to be silent for a day at school to promote tolerance.
Tom,
My only reason for responding to your post was that your description of this made it sound as if schools were forcing this event on the students and teaching them about the homosexual life style. So, I googled it and found that it was not an event being taught to students, but just students choosing to be silent. I think it is wrong to make it sound as if our local NH teachers are forcing these things on students when they are not doing so. If it is a student generated day of silence, then what would you propose school administrators do to prevent it? How do you punish or prevent students from being silent?
Bussing school students to a gay pride parade isn't designed to promote tolerance?
Then is must be for what I think it might be - recruitment.
I make plenty of sense. That is why you duck the question.
1. Why does what kind of sex you like have always havbe to be part of a public school day?
2. Why are moments of silence for homosexual issues and bussing to homosexual events always revolving around YOUNG people especially other people's kids? Why not other places people congregate?
3. Why does it have to be in a public school at our expense?
4. I don't know your name so I don't have a clue if you support prayer in school so your offer that you do is irrelevant.