The Westboro Effect Triggers Embarrassing Counter-Protest Westboro Baptist Church planed a protest today outside a Santa Monica high school but quickly retreated.
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From the moving video: "On February 25th, 2013, The Westboro Baptist Church, decided to pay Santa Monica High School a visit…
And we gave them a Santa Monica Welcome."
As one commenter one Facebook put it: “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how it's done.”
Citizenlink 3-11-10 Gay Agenda in New York Classrooms
New York City schools are hosting a Respect for All week. --- Citizenlink was apparently unable to provide a link to these gay-agenda shenanigans, so I took the liberty of Googling the event to find out for myself.
Anti-Bullying and Harassment Week Will Kick Off on March 8 and Run through March 12, 2010
...The Department’s “Respect for All” initiative is New York City’s effort to combat bullying and harassment based on ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and other characteristics...
Re video below: The two city advocates featured here, more than ‘made the case’ for the Respect For All program and seemed genuinely and passionately interested in its success (I especially enjoyed the reasons, facts and examples portion of the adult conversation ;).
Christine Quinn: But it was just very exciting today at the kickoff precedent, just to have such a hugely diverse group of New Yorkers standing behind us. Rabbis, Imams, Reverends, ..coalition, everybody there with a united message that everyone has to be respected in our public school system if children are going to have the ability to get a quality education.
Naturally, Focus on the Family---via Citizenlink---is having none of it. One of the characteristics listed on the scale of bullying is sexual orientation, which they invariably interpret to mean homosexuality:
Joseph Mattera, presiding bishop of the Christ Covenant Coalition, said that gives GLSEN a permanent foothold in New York City classrooms.
"The whole idea is just to soften up the students so that there will be a receptivity in the future to same-sex marriage or other gay-friendly curriculum," Mattera said.
“The whole idea ... gay-friendly curriculum”
Yes. And an ethnic-friendly curriculum, and a nationality-friendly curriculum, and a religion-friendly curriculum, and a disability-friendly curriculum, and a gender-friendly curriculum, etc --- As the sign says: Respect for All.
Which goes to a place called truetolerance.org; “a project of focus on the family”:
Concerned about the pro-gay agenda in your child’s public school? It’s sad, but many public schools have, in the name of “tolerance,” stifled free speech and true diversity by silencing students of faith, and those with conservative perspectives.
This isn’t true tolerance. True Tolerance means a free and respectful exchange of ideas.
One of those free and respectful exchanges of ideas might include the “truly tolerant” way of smearing any program that supports LGBT persons.
The Day of Silence is a student-led national event that brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. ...The event is designed to illustrate the silencing effect of this bullying and harassment on LGBT students and those perceived to be LGBT.
And this is how truetolerance.org characterizes the participants of the pro-gay Day of Silence. definition (PDF) of the Day of Silence:
GLSEN claims its “Day of Silence” event, held annually in mid April, is about tolerance and safety. But if you pay close attention to the materials being distributed for this event, it’s clear there is a one-sided political agenda beneath the rhetoric.
They define concern for LGBT bullying as “rhetoric,” and then charge that “there is a one-sided political agenda beneath” it.
IMNSHO, truetolerance.org is essentially another site designed to bash any program that brings attention to gay-bashing.
GLSEN's week long effort uses the anti-bullying message as a springboard to indoctrinate students with the homosexual agenda. -- Cushman said events like Ally Week play directly into the activist's plans.
"GLSEN is using this so-called anti-bullying event to transform students into lobbyists for its adult agenda," she said, "for things like pro-gay legislation currently proposed in the U.S. House."
I believe all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression,deserve to feel safe and supported. That means I pledge to:
-Not use anti-LGBT language and slurs; -Intervene, if I safely can, in situations where other students are being harassed; -Support efforts to end bullying and harassment.
The nerve of those insidious gays and their agenda “to transform students into lobbyists” for the protection of their fellow students! --- The news here is that they’re not promoting Exodus International’s “Allies Too” week:
Wait a minute, aren't you the ones who hate gays?
If that's what you think, it's about time you stop believing the lie that people with different beliefs about sexuality hate those who embrace homosexuality.
In other words, “We don't hate gay liars.”
I especially enjoy #4 and #6 from their “Core Principles” page:
4. We believe that a homosexual, bisexual or transgender identity and/or behavior are outside of the intentional design of human relationships and sexuality, and therefore aren’t what’s best for us, regardless of whether we are drawn to them.
6. We reject the notion that these beliefs somehow amount to hatred, bigotry, or a “phobia.”
You are free to “reject.” You are also free to be labeled hateful, bigoted, and homophobic.
[Candi] Cushman said events like Ally Week play directly into the activist's plans.
Again, Candi, why not counter these "gay activist" indoctrination techniques with Exodus International’s already tried and true “Allies, Too” week? --- P.S. Focus on the Family also reminds us to hate Kevin Jennings.
The National Day of Silencebrings 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 [2008] to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.
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The "Day of Truth" is an official project of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a legal alliance dedicated to defending the right to hear and speak the Truth. More specifically, ADF launched this project in 2005 to ensure the free speech rights of Christian students to present an opposing viewpoint to those organizations that promote homosexual behavior in the schools. In 2007, Focus on the Family and Exodus International joined the project, providing information and support regarding the theological, social, research, and religious ministry issues central to this debate. Neither these organizations nor participants in the Day of Truth are trying to force their views on anyone, but are merely exercising their First Amendment rights to present another side to this issue.
Some of the views they are "not trying to force on anyone," include their own "view" of The Day of Silence:
The Day of Silence is a national program of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which asks students to remain silent for an entire day to express their support for the promotion of the homosexual agenda in the public schools. Unlike the Day of Silence, the Day of Truth does not encourage students to engage in activities that are likely to disrupt the school’s academic mission.
How does the Alliance Defense Fund define the “homosexual agenda” you ask?
Well, they’ve written a book on it. One of, if not the most thoroughly vilifying pieces of anti-GLBT literature I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. Fortunately, they themselves, provide a review of that book, and thus, a definition of the "homosexual agenda":
Alan Sears and Craig Osten, of the Scottsdale-based Alliance Defense Fund, expose the homosexual agenda and its fight for "gay" rights for what it is - an unrestrained, no-holds-barred attack on the family and religious freedom.
And of course:
This book is not, however, about "bashing" homosexuals.
All that being the case, the ADF and supporters of their so-called Day of Truth, must then believe that any objection to anti-gay harassment and violence is an attempt to destroy “the family,” and religious freedom.
And given that their objection is to the very objection to harassment and violence itself, the ADF and their supporters must also believe that anti-gay harassment and violence is a protected aspect of their religious freedom.
The American Family Association, however, is taking a different approach, by encouraging parents to keep their kids home from school that day. No doubt to protect them from the threat of any deafening silence that could possibly lead to independent thought.
But just in case you still think a stance against violence is a stance against "the family" and religious freedom, you may want to check out this years Day of Silence Video for yourself.
