Homeschool News & Views
Issue 67, April 20, 2008
From Homeschool Helpers
in association with Pass It On Ministries
By Dan L. White
The day of shame in
America’s public schools is April 25, this coming Friday.
Lebanon, Missouri is a
small town near us, with about twelve thousand people. Lebanon is a fine little town, with about
fifty churches in a five mile radius. Lebanon hosts a big homeschool/Christian
school basketball tournament every March, and welcomes them warmly.
I quote from an article in the Lebanon Daily Record,
which you can find at lebanondailyrecord.com.
“'Day of Silence' will be observed --
Apr 19, 2008
Despite objections from members of the community,
some Lebanon High School students are determined to take part in a "Day of
Silence" Friday as part of a nationwide protest against hate crimes.
“We, Youth for Tolerance, are going to do a few
things on the Day of Silence,” said [the] president of the organization. “All of the students participating will be told not to let
the handing out of the cards affect the school day, and that they should go
about their day as normal, just without talking.”
Several area parents have vowed they will keep
their children out of school that day rather than allow them to be exposed to what is perceived to be a movement condoning
homosexuality.
Students who are participating will meet Friday
before school and paint light gray circles on their cheeks, [the student] said.. Students will have cards they will pass out when they are asked why they are not speaking.
At the end of the day, the students will have a
face-washing party with food and drinks.”
Youth are always looking
for a cause. We
recall youth movements for men to grow their hair long, for drugs, for free sex, and other such noble causes. Youth are naturally rebellious. That is the way the human heart is, according
to the Bible. But,
of course, these youth today aren’t taught the Bible in their schools.
Young people are really
looking for a purpose in life, something that makes their lives
worthwhile. These students don’t really know anything about the Bible, God and His
saving Son, so they have adopted as their purpose to promote sodomy, while
camouflaging it by other names.
The article goes on;
“The Day of Silence is a national event and is not
sponsored or endorsed by the Lebanon R-3 District. The
day was started by several students in Virginia as a
part of a class assignment on non-violent protests.
The Day of Silence, which is a project of the Gay,
Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is a student-led day when students take
a vow of action to bring attention to the name-calling, bullying and harassment
that is experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students,
according to the Day of Silence Web site.
It is still unknown how many are going to
participate.”
This day began in the
public schools as part of a class assignment.
This movement says it is fighting hate and name
calling. Actually, it is they who
do most of the name calling, when they repeatedly say
that Christians are hate filled bigots.
They call Bible believers “fundies,” a mocking
of fundamentalist.
Joseph Goebbels was
Hitler’s master of propaganda. He repeatedly attacked a Jewish
police official in Berlin named Bernhard Weiss by calling him Isidor Weiss. At the
time Isidor was a German
mocking term for Jews. Goebbels did that
so much that people came to think that Weiss’s name actually was Isidor and not Bernhard.
The socialists today are doing the same thing with the Christians,
repeatedly calling them hate filled bigots and fundies. That is how they show their hate.
Reading further in the
article:
““Since it is a personal decision for each student,
I am not sure I could gauge how many participants there will be,” said Dennis
Preston, sponsor for Youth for Tolerance. “I do know,
though, that I get more students daily coming to me, asking how they can
participate. ... I’m pleased that students have the
initiative to speak up for others and are willing to face possible ridicule in
order to bring awareness to a serious — and mostly unaddressed— problem of
bullying in our schools across the nation.”’
The school says it is not
officially sponsoring the homosexual promotion, yet one of its teachers is a
sponsor for the event. Therefore the school is using taxpayer money to promote
homosexuality. And
the public school teacher says that the problem is not homosexuality but
bullying. Of course, everybody is against
bullying.
That teacher said:
“When asked if he had any comments he wanted to added about the day, Preston said he did not know where the
controversy concerning the Day of Silence in Lebanon began.’
“But I am hoping that at this point there is no confusion
about the event or its goals. The students simply wish
to make a stand for what they think is right and just. It
will be done simply, without interference with anyone’s rights,” said Preston.
“As a teacher, I applaud students who are willing
to stand up for something they feel is right, even when it is not popular to do
so.””
I thought the schools weren’t supposed to teach religion. The teacher says he applauds students for
standing up for what is “right”. Well,
who determines right and wrong? Only God
sets right and wrong. My
God says sodomy is wrong. His god says
it is wrong to oppose sodomy. My taxes support his religion.
The American Family
Association is calling for a boycott of the public schools on the national day
of shame. That’s
where the opposition in Lebanon came from.
We and others have called for a boycott of the
public schools on all days, and for freedom of education in America, to end the
tax supported left wing monopoly on education.
Those last two things are
not close to reality now, and a one day boycott of the
schools won’t change anything. Mr.
Preston and all those teachers like him will still be in the schools, waiting
for the students.
But here is something that can be done now, and should
be, and, God willing, will be.
We can make the Day of
Silence the –
Speak Up for Christian
Education Day.
On the day when the homo
promoters shut up, let the Christian educators speak up.
These Christian educators
will be all the Christian schools and the Christian homeschool groups in an
area. Public school parents get more
upset on the Day of Silence or Day of Shame than at any other time. Let the Christian educators take that whole
day and have counselors available to talk with parents about pulling their kids
out of the left wing schools. Write
letters to the editor and put announcements on Christian radio turning the Day
of Shame into a day of change, helping parents change the direction of their
children’s lives by changing what they are taught,
from anti-Christian to Christ loving.
We are going to try to do
that here. We are going to announce the
Speak Up for Christian Education Day to the newspaper that ran the article we
read from. We
are going to see if the Christian radio station will announce this for us, even
though they ask for two week lead time on
announcements. We are going to see if we
can get the church in Lebanon where we have the Monday Night Thing to let us
use their facility on Friday for receiving parents who want to leave the public
schools. We are going to talk to the
Christian school in Lebanon and invite them to be ready to talk with parents
who might want to join their school. We
are going to see if we can get a local bluegrass band to put on a gospel concert
Friday evening to top off the day.
You do the same thing in
your area. You and God can get the ball
rolling. Don’t
wait for somebody else to do it. God is
calling you to do it. Unlike the
confused students at Lebanon, you do know your purpose in life, and that is to
lift up the Son of God and draw others closer to Him. This does that.
We are going to contact
American Family Association to see if we can make this a nationwide response to
the Day of Silence. When they shut up,
we will speak up.
Send this email to other
Christian educators that you know.
Encourage them to do the same.
With God’s help and all of
our efforts, the Day of Silence will be turned into the Speak Up for Christian
Education Day.