Targeting Youth With 'Silence' and 'Truth'
Give the kids the truth about homosexuality and they will make a good decision and reject it.
(CNSNews.com) - A homosexual advocacy group says half a million students at some 4,000 schools will take part in the tenth annual "Day of Silence" on Wednesday.
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network describes the National Day of Silence as an effort to "draw attention to discrimination and harassment faced by gays daily in the nation's schools."
Participating students will avoid speaking during the school day "to symbolize the silencing of LGBT students by harassment and bullying," GLSEN says on its website.
On Thursday, counter-protesters will have their say.
The Alliance Defense Fund, a group that is pushing for passage of a federal marriage amendment, is sponsoring its second annual "Day of Truth" on April 27.
The ADF event is intended to oppose the promotion of the homosexual agenda in the nation's schools and to "express an opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective."
Last year more than 1,100 students from over 350 schools "shared the Truth" with their classmates, the ADF says on its website.
"The Day of Truth provides an opportunity for participating students to express a different perspective than the Day of Silence," said ADF Litigation Counsel Timothy Chandler in a blurb on the ADF website.
"Students can't be expected to make good, well-informed decisions if they're only being told part of the story. Allowing the communication of one viewpoint and claiming it's the only viewpoint is advocating, not educating," he said.
While some advocacy groups fight to make homosexuality normal and accepted, and other advocacy groups fight acceptance of homosexuality on religious and moral grounds, many Americans in the middle think the subject of sex has no place in the nation's schools -- period.
posted by Steve | 4/25/2006 08:51:00 AM
6 Comments:
JL,
You said, "Give the kids the truth about homosexuality and they will make a good decision and reject it."
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "reject it." A friend of mine and fellow Air Force Academy graduate was gay. As a devout Catholic he decided to remain chaste as about 30% of gays do. Is this what you mean?
What about gays who want to settle down and have a family? What are they suppose to do?
Hi Mr. Ware, thanks for commenting on my blog. You have a very good blog, by the way.
Let me explain my comments.
The entry sentence to the post was made to generate a little controversy and get people to comment to the article. But it also reflects my views of what the majority of homosexuals are trying to do. What they are trying to do, is to project homosexuality as something normal, happy and risk free. This is, in fact, not completely true.
Contrary to how it may appear on the surface, I am not an anti-homosexual shrill, but have read the Bible and studied numerous studies on this subject. To call myself an expert would be irresponsible as well as being untrue, but I am well informed.
Let's go over some information.
According to the CDC, the syphilis rate among U.S. men has soared 81 percent between 2000 and 2004, primarily as a result of increases in reported cases among homosexual males. Not counting the greater likelihood of homosexuals catching AIDS, this by itself shows that the greatest majority of homosexuals are engaging in a dangerous, promiscuous lifestyle.
On average, surveyed homosexual males have had sexual contact with anywhere from 80 to 100 partners or more during their lives. Your friend and the 30% of homosexuals who do choose to remain chaste are a minority within the homosexual community.
By promoting the homosexual agenda, without including information concerning the increased health risk this lifestyle brings with it, homosexuals are, for lack of a better term, lying to the youth in an attempt to lure them into a lifestyle with well-documented risk. I take umbrage to this type of behavior.
Now let's look at the Biblical aspect of this topic.
Mr. Ware, I take the Bible as a whole. It is perfect as written, with no need to add or subtract from it. It is the Word of God to His creation.
So many times, people say "why don’t you love the homosexual like Jesus does". That is an interesting comment, huh?
As I read the Bible, I come across Jesus preaching to the sinners, telling them repeatedly to stop sinning. He went to dinner with them and told them the good news of how to be saved from sin. But in all those accounts, can you show me one example where Jesus ever sat down or encouraged people who were not repentant sinners or people who were not trying to find a way to stop sinning? I have put this challenge out before, and so far no one can show me one passage where Jesus ever sat down with or encouraged people to sin. As a matter of fact, Jesus called them "a brood of vipers" when talking to the Pharases and teachers of the law. They were unrepentant sinners who were not looking to leave their sinful lifestyles, and Jesus had nothing to do with them.
The Bible tells us in no uncertain terms that homosexuality is a sin. Period.
Jesus commands us to love one another as we love ourselves. We are to love the sinner, but hate the sin.
What kind of service would I be doing for the homosexual's if I encouraged them to continue sinning? What kind of an example would I be? How could I profess to be trying to follow Jesus' examples if I said "homosexuality is a sin, but it's OK to keep doing it. God doesn't mind". That would be a lie. God does mind.
I can no more encourage a homosexual to remain a homosexual as I can encourage a thief or adulterer to continue to be a thief or an adulterer. This would go against the Word of God.
Let's go back to my original comment:
"Give the kids the truth about homosexuality and they will make a good decision and reject it."
Yes, Mr. Ware, give the kids good information about the health risk of homosexuality and the morality of it, and I do believe they will make good decisions. The decision to reject it.
Thanks and God Bless!
Thanks for your thoughtful response. It's hard to speak of a "gay lifestyle" in terms of averages when there is such wide variation among those who are not part of the 95% who are heterosexual.
Even gay culture itself has gone through quite a change over just the last 20 years. Andrew Sullivan has some insights about this. Have you read his article?
We certainly need to reduce promiscuous sexual behavior and increase the use of condoms in gays and straights alike. Most of the reduction in the teen pregnancy and abortions rates in the last ten years can be attributed to the greater incidence of condom use. I see there has been a major reduction in the transmission of STD's including HIV in major cities such as San Francisco in the last few years.
In any event, I'm still not sure what you mean when you suggest our gay citizens "reject homosexuality." In other words, what do you suggest they do instead?
Thanks for the additional comments.
You continue to ask, "...what do you suggest they do instead?"
OK, let me spell it out...
Homosexuality, according to the Bible, is a sin. People are told by Jesus to stop sinning. Ergo, homosexuals need to stop doing the sin of homosexuality.
In a nutshell, they need to stop being homosexual.
Now I know you've about come out of your chair on that one, because you believe in the junk science idea that homosexuality is genetic, similar to being right handed or left handed.
I have two problems with this:
1) It has never been proven that genes play any part in determining homosexuality. In 1993, Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute claimed to have found a genetic link to homosexuality. Yet in 1999, the results of an intensive study by the University of Western Ontario found that Hamer was in error. The fact is that after all the attempts to show a genetic cause for homosexuality, no such genetic cause has been found. A British psychologist has had enormous success in providing "reorientation" therapy to homosexuals who want to change. This is not a surgery or a medical treatment, but it is effective. How could it be effective if the cause of homosexuality is physical? Well, it couldn’t be. Homosexuality is a choice, not a genetic predisposition.
2) You do not believe the Word of God. Bold statement I know, but it is obvious that you are pretty deep into Biblical relativism. I believe in Biblical Truth and Moral Absolutes. You do not. You feel you are somehow qualified to pick and choose what parts of the Bible to believe and not to believe. I've never understood that kind of thinking. If both of us are relativist, what makes what you decide to believe a better choice over what I would choose to believe? Using that logic, before long, we might as well toss the whole Bible out the window because we will never be able to agree on what to believe.
Anyway, I know that nothing I'm going to say here is going to change your mind, and most certainly, nothing you've presented to me will change mine, so we must just agree to disagree on this topic.
I do appreciate your comments and also you visiting my blog. I hope you will drop by often.
Thanks and God Bless You!
-Steve
I think it's important to remember that people are not born gay. However we are all born with a bent toward some sin - it may be gambling, pornography, lying, etc. If we are followers of Jesus, we have to work to overcome those sins and turn from them. Homosexuals have a bent twoard sexual feelings with people of their own gender - they have to resist that just like a person bent toward alcolholism must resist alcohol. Homosexuality is a sin - plain truth of the Bible - God said it and I believe it. People who practice homosexuality are not hated by God, they are showing weakness or complete absence of faith in Him.
Well said, Beth!
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