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Tuesday, April 16, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The hijacking of education
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Posted: April 16, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Eric Hogue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The "Day of Silence" should speak loudly to America's culturally concerned. The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender politicos organized another "hijacking" of public education on April 10, 2002, and their plans call for more to come. By using an oxymoronic ploy called a "Day of Silence," GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian
and Straight Educational Network), orchestrated a silent protest encouraging
middle-school and high-school students to protest the prejudice and
discrimination of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. That's right,
no talking for nine hours, which included the school day.
GLSEN, an adult-run advocacy group led predominantly by gay and lesbian
current and former educators, used the recently created GSA Clubs (Gay-Straight
Alliances) on campuses to coordinate the event.
GLSEN provided posters, flyers, signs and the all-important "speaking
cards" that students were to offer their teachers during the school hours. These
cards explained the silence and challenged the reader to "think about the voices
that are silenced today. ... What are you going to do to end the silence?"
This attack upon the educational day stimulated much-needed outrage from
parents, citizens and taxpayers. Many parents and students have been motivated
to turn toward the legal system, yet others are demanding a day for the messages
of pro-life, abstinence and creation science.
No matter the immediate response, the question on the "speaking cards"
should ring loudly for the future battles to come: "What are you going to do to
end the silence?"
The ridiculous aspect of this recent demonstration is, if there ever were a
social agenda that does not need a day of silent protest, it's the homosexual
agenda. Yet, on a day where "the agenda" was willing to be silent, an
appropriate question for the rest of us to consider was asked: "What are you
going to do about the silencing of equal speech?"
What are you going to do about the silencing of "free speech" and open
debate? What are you going to do about truth that has been silenced by political
pressure? Will you organize to simply attack or will you have the determination
and the knowledge to respond with intellectual debate and open forum?
Many still believe in today's youth. Teen-agers want to be told the truth.
They long for the absolutes that define life's morality and liberty. Nobody sets
out to learn from "truths that have been lied about and lies that have been
truthed about." Students can handle the truth, and maybe it's time we organized
to give them just that – the absolute truth and debate on an equal playing
field.
This Day of Silence needs to be taken as an open invitation for more
creative means in this fight. Student groups are organizing "Teens for Life
Clubs," "Virtue/Abstinence Clubs," "Creation and Evolution Clubs," as well as
"Free Speech Clubs" to demand a place in the educational/cultural debate.
Some local schools are seeing the creation of "Parents Rights Groups" that
meet once a week. They monitor social and political activities inside of the
schoolhouse. They build confidential relationships with traditional and
conservative faculty members, offering them the support they need. These
"Parents Rights Groups" also act as a steering committee, asking for regular
school board meeting agenda placement to discuss their findings and announce
their method of response.
False agendas need "truth serum" and an antidote of free speech in the
forum of open debate. Students on the "inside" are looking for help from the
"outside." The left agendas stop at nothing to see that their message is
propagated. The right seems to be asleep in the light of the truth!
Yeah, it's easier to call an attorney and bring a lawsuit against the
school board, the school administration and even the state board of education –
and in some instances this is appropriate and needed. But this doesn't weed out
the deep-seated lies that have been planted.
Why can't the right receive the same creative energy that supports the
left? If it's a battle for the mind and the soul, the engagement from all fronts
is needed in this war.
Since Sept. 11, we all know what to do if the airliner we are traveling on
is hijacked. The message used to be compliance – but not any longer. If the
hijacking of a plane can turn it into a smart bomb, think of what the hijacking
of education can do when left unchallenged.
It's not enough to feel happy about winning a few lawsuits.
In a roundabout way, maybe this Day of Silence is what we all needed. A
break from the homosexual volume for a day to ask ourselves, "What are you going
to do to end the silence ... the silence of the right?"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Hogue is a talk-show host and program director for KTKZ radio in Sacramento, Calif. He also sits on the National News and Public Affairs Board for Salem Communications. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27243 |
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