Homosexual Group Stages "Day of Silence" in US Schools
In thousands of US classrooms from grade schools to college campuses

April 22, 2004, (LifeSiteNews.com) - A US homosexual activists
organization that specializes in conditioning students in the acceptance
of homosexual lifestyles and activities organized a "Day of Silence" April
21. In thousands of US classrooms from grade schools to college campuses
participants were encouraged to spend the day in silence, not responding
to teachers' questions, in order to protest "the silence faced by lesbian,
gay and transgender people and their allies." Students were issued a card
by the organization, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, (GLSEN)
that read in part, "My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is
caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending
that silence is the first step toward fighting these injustices."

GLSEN was heavily criticized in 2001 for staging a student/teacher
conference at Tuft's university at which press and parents were excluded.
The conference distributed materials from Planned Parenthood that taught
students how to perform homosexual acts "safely." The GLESN website
features an emotional, professionally produced television spot featuring
Mathew Shepard's mother, Judy, warning that children in schools are being
taught "hate" against homosexuals. The group's purpose is to help teachers
and school boards incorporate "gay history" into curricula.

Rabbi David Eidensohn, director of the National Non-Sectarian Council of
Pro-Family Activists, said, "Students who should be learning to get along
with others are making a 'hit list' of teachers and students who are
Biblical or who refuse the homosexual agenda."

To view the GLSEN TV spot:
http://glsen.policy.net/