Group makes noise over Day of Silence

[donsu]

Day of Truth designed to counter gay-supportive observance


Irked by the success of the nationwide Day of Silence, which seeks to combat anti-gay bias in schools, conservative activists are launching a counter-event this week called the Day of Truth aimed at mobilizing students who believe homosexuality is sinful.

Participating students are being offered T-shirts with the slogan “The Truth Cannot be Silenced” and cards to pass out to classmates Thursday — the day following the Day of Silence — declaring their unwillingness to condone “detrimental personal and social behavior.”

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The driving force behind the Day of Truth is the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group that has opposed same-sex marriage and challenged restrictions on religious expression in public schools. The event is endorsed by several influential conservative organizations, including the Christian ministry Focus on the Family and the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

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The event is designed as a riposte to the Day of Silence, which began on a small scale in 1996 and is now observed by tens of thousands of students annually at hundreds of schools and colleges across the country.
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according to GLSEN:

84 percent of gay and lesbian high school students experiences verbal harassment on a regular basis at school, and 40 percent experience physical harassment.

may the Alliance Defense Fund suffer setbacks

[formerrepuke]

1. Why limit hate to just one day? Hate and discrimination can be practiced

every single day...! Oh, wait..it already is. What Dumb-asses.

[Deep13]

2. Truth, huh?

Where's your evidence, assholes? Truth might not be silent, but it seems the lies are getting louder and louder.

[BOSSHOG]

3. The truth can not be silenced

The truth is conservative students are taught to hate from their parents and from the pulpit. And they often manifest their hate with physical violence. If they are opposed to the Day of Silence then they are for Anti-Gay bias and hatred, plain and simple.