April 17th - "Day of Silence" -Congress to vote on it

[gam197]

A pro-family advocate is urging people to voice their concern over a resolution sitting before Congress.

Day of Silence Congressional Resolution 92 will receive an up-or-down vote on or before April 17, which is the National Day of Silence – a day when students across America are encouraged to show their support for the homosexual community by refusing to speak.

The resolution seeks to affirm congressional support for the event and encourage local education authorities to adopt policies that prevent bullying based on sexual orientation. Laurie Higgins is the director of the division of school advocacy with the Illinois Family Institute (IFI).

“It requests that the president issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe the National Day of Silence with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities,” she explains.

Higgins urges concerned citizens to contact their congressmen and strongly express their concern. The resolution, she argues, is an outrage, and adds that Congress has no right to take a position on this issue, which is being pushed by a group known as GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network.

“GLSEN has particular political goals,” Higgins contends. “They go much farther beyond ending bullying to attempting to transform students’ views on the nature and morality of homosexuality.”

The IFI is also encouraging parents to pull their kids out of school for the day if their school is participating in the Day of Silence on April 17.

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[saskatoon]

Does Congress need some real work? I can give them some suggestions. Good thing they are passing important laws like this one and not frivolus ones like immigration or drugs. Do you really think you can keep kids and teens quiet for a WHOLE day?
Maybe it will have the same success as earth hour did a day or so ago.
Though if Congress would not talk for the whole day we would be able to slow global warming!!

 

[Zoe_Brain]

Do you really think you can keep kids and teens quiet for a WHOLE day?

As it’s voluntary, the kids doing it themselves, the question doesn’t arise.

That’s something you should always keep in mind, but especially during Day of Silence, an annual event designed to bring attention to the bullying, harassment, and name-calling LGBT students often experience in school. Here are four things you need to know about your rights as you mark Day of Silence this Friday, April 25.

1. You DO have a right to participate in Day of Silence and other expressions of your opinion at a public school during non-instructional time: the breaks between classes, before and after the school day, lunchtime, and any other free times during your day. If your principal or a teacher tells you otherwise, you should contact our office or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

1. You do NOT have a right to remain silent during class time if a teacher asks you to speak. If you want to stay quiet during class on Day of Silence, we recommend that you talk to your teachers ahead of time, tell them what you plan to do, and ask them if it would be okay for you to communicate on that day in writing. Most teachers will probably say yes.

1. Your school is NOT required to ’sponsor’ Day of Silence. A lot of schools this year are announcing that they aren’t sponsoring Day of Silence due to pressure from national anti-gay groups. But Day of Silence is rarely a school-sponsored activity to begin with - it’s almost always an activity led by students. So don’t be confused - just because your school is saying that the school won’t officially sponsor or participate in Day of Silence doesn’t mean that it’s saying you can’t participate.

1. Students who oppose Day of Silence DO have the right to express their views, too. Like you, they must do so in a civil, peaceful way and they must limit their expression to non-instructional time. They do NOT have a right to skip school on Day of Silence without any consequences, just as you don’t have a right to skip school just because you don’t like what they think or say.

 

[JMJ_coder]

Great idea, get everyone who supports immoral acts to be silent for a period of time. Maybe if we can get them to shut up for a minute they might actually start to listen to reason for a change!

 

[Mark77]

If we support a day of silence for those with SSA, then** we need to cut out our tongues for an eternity of silence in honor of the 50 million innocent babies murdered in the US since Roe v. Wade!**

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

Mark

 

[Matrix_Refugee]

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=325928 ← This has already been discussed in a different way, but I admit, as a celibate bisexual, I will be taking part in it.

 

[gam197]

bump

If they do vote on this, I wonder if we will hear about it in the news anywhere.

 

[centurionguard]

How about a Day of Silence for the Right to Be Heterosexual

I can see a can of worms brewing over.

I not speaking here to be an Anti-Gay bash-er.

Every year during the summer months we have one weekend designated as National Gay Parade Day in Canada.
This is backed up monetarily by huge sponsors from Big soft-drink companies, Beer companies both American and Canadian, and Pharmaceutical companies who produce condoms and sexual aids, and a consortium of other sponsors. These parades have to be monitored and protected by police escorts and in some larger cities police in full riot gear. This is by no means a pretty sight especially when things get out of hand. And they do in some places. Then you have small school children in the back seats of their parents automobiles asking Mommy and Daddy what is Gay Parade Day ? What does it mean to be gay ? How many Catholic Canadians stood motionless and passive when our politicians passed federal laws legalizing Gay marriages across the nation.
The same goes for abortion in both of our countries.
We Catholics are a passive people. I wonder how God will judge us all.
I’m guilty for saying jack-squat. True we live in a democratic countries. But we also reap what we sow. What ever became with the Voice of the Silent Majority ?

 

[RedGecko]

If they do vote on this, I wonder if we will hear about it in the news anywhere.

It seems to have died in committee.

Latest Major Action: 4/1/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Source: Library of Congress’ THOMAS database