Day of Silence tomorrow - how to react

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buffalo said:
That was my answer.

I would say to them - “I am offended”. See the reaction it got from you.
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Oh okay. I see 😉 . Although maybe next time you could say ‘Say to them…’ Just so no misunderstanding.

Although I’m sure they would get ‘righteously’ (you know what I mean) offended if you said that.
 
My daughters school did this and I think it’s wonderful. The catechism is very clear on Chastiy for homosexuals but it is equally clear on how they are to be treated. Discrimination is not allowed.

The link from the OP:
The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. This year’s event will be held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed Feb. 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. Hundreds of thousands of students will come together on April 25 to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.
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What the catechism says:
Chastity and homosexuality
2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
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There is nothing wrong with our children being part of this.
 
Hi all…I am an Australian and I have not heard of the “Day of Silence” - could someone explain it to me please in a-b-c language (lights on here, but sometimes no one is home!😃 ) why it is objectionable to some and not so to others. I did have a quick look at the website dayofsilence.org/ but still cannot understand exactly what it is all about and why the controversy which seems to surround it. Seems to me a day when students keep silence would be a productive thing and please excuse my ignorance of what may be involved.
Certainly in senior school (50 odd years ago!!!:o ) we had once monthly a day of retreat which was a day of silence…it was a great exercise in self-discipline, but I am pretty sure this is not what the DoS is about.

Thanks heaps…Barb:)
 
BarbaraTherese said:
Hi all…I am an Australian and I have not heard of the “Day of Silence” - could someone explain it to me please in a-b-c language (lights on here, but sometimes no one is home!😃 ) why it is objectionable to some and not so to others. I did have a quick look at the website dayofsilence.org/ but still cannot understand exactly what it is all about and why the controversy which seems to surround it. Seems to me a day when students keep silence would be a productive thing and please excuse my ignorance of what may be involved.
Certainly in senior school (50 odd years ago!!!:o ) we had once monthly a day of retreat which was a day of silence…it was a great exercise in self-discipline, but I am pretty sure this is not what the DoS is about.

Thanks heaps…Barb:)
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Well, in the bare fact of it, the Day of Silence is about being silent for those who are unjustly discriminated against for their sexual orientation, and could be just that.

But… Well, you know how it is. As much as I support what they present as the reason for the Day of Silence, there goes along with it the connotation that there are only two camps of thought, which is absolutely untrue. The way they (GSAers, or those in Gay Straight Alliance) present it, there are just these two schools of thought;
  1. homosexuality is okay because it is just ‘natural’
or
  1. you hate homosexuals because you’re a bigot
even though obviously I would be part of the
  1. I will love them, and because I love them I will not say homosexuality (the act) is ok
It’s a wedge issue. So, I choose not to participate for I do not want to appear like I support homosexuality, for that is the obvious connotative purpose of the event.
 
Thank you very much for clarifying the issue for me, brycelalibe. 👍

I think I would choose to be silent, since while I do not condone homosexual acts nor anything else sinful, homosexual people, for example, remain loved children of God whom we are called by our baptismal vocation to love…and to be nasty or cruel towards them in any way at all is against our central vocation and call…to love others as we love ourselves. Others could make whatever they like of my motives for silence if they should so choose, and I could have no control over what people may think or say about me…and I never can. The Lord would insight my motives, knowing my heart as He knows all hearts.

Just my Aussie take on the Day of Silence.

Thanks again…Barb:)
 
buffalo said:
You will not discriminate against sin?
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Nope. Jesus didn’t.

Matthew 9:10-12
As Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with Jesus and his followers. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked Jesus’ followers, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard them, he said, “It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick."
 
OntheMount9 said:
Nope. Jesus didn’t.

Matthew 9:10-12
As Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with Jesus and his followers. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked Jesus’ followers, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard them, he said, “It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick."
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🙂 perfect. 👍
 
Nope. Jesus didn’t.
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Matthew 9:10-12
As Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with Jesus and his followers. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked Jesus’ followers, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard them, he said, “It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick."
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Sharing the meal with the sinners was an act of love on Christ’s part. He acknowledges that he is with them because they are “sick” with sin. Discrimination is the discernment of qualities and recognition of the differences between things, generally speaking. That is exactly what Christ is doing in that passage, viz., discerning the quality of their souls and recognizing the difference between sin and innocence. A deeper meaning may perhaps be wrought by meditating that we are all sinners. Why did He choose those particular sinners as illustrative in this instance?

God Bless

Jon Winterburn
 
OntheMount9 said:
Nope. Jesus didn’t.

Matthew 9:10-12
As Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with Jesus and his followers. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked Jesus’ followers, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard them, he said, “It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick."
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It is obvious that most of them do not even know it is a sin. That is the extent of the work we have to do. Show them that it is sinful and then fraternal correction.

True Christian charity demands fraternal correction.

THe question stands - You will not discriminate against sin?
 
Luke Chapter 10
HERE
“37 - But he said: He that showed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner.”
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Matthew Chapter 7 – Sermon on The Mount
HERE
1 Judge not, that you may not be judged, 2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? 4 Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?
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From the link given by Buffalo from New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia on FRATERNAL CORRECTION
That there is, upon occasion and with due regard to circumstances, an obligation to administer fraternal correction there can be no doubt. This is a conclusion not only deducible from the natural law binding us to love and to assist one another, but also explicitly contained in positive precept such as the inculcation of Christ:

"If thy brother shall offend against thee,

go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone
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. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother" (Matthew 18:15).

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Given a sufficiently grave condition of spiritual distress calling for succour in this way, this commandment may exact fulfilment under pain of mortal sin. This is reckoned to be so only when …
  • there is a well-founded expectation that the admonition will be heeded;
  • there is no one else just as well fitted for this work of Christian charity and likely to undertake it;
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It would pay to read the whole New Advent Entry on “Fraternal Correction” I think and before making a personal decision re The Day of Silence for oneself and certainly before recommending to anyone else that they either observe this day or refrain.
 
I, however, wouldn’t want to lose sight of the OP’s right to an education, unimpeded by folks espousing a special interest. I, certainly, would not be silent. However, if someone asked me why I wasn’t, I would attempt to explain that my first responsibilty is to the education that someone’s property taxes are paying for. It’s certainly these folks’ right to exercise free speech (or free non-speech?) but it is NOT their right to interfere with a) your education or b) your religious beliefs. (and, technically, it isn’t really their “right” to be silent. I’d give 'em Fs for effort for the day).
 
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