April 28, 2006
Days of Silence and Humility "Truth"
from - smijer
Wednesday was the day of the Fundamentalist "Day of Truth", a response to the student-led April 13th "Day of Silence".
Here is a nice article on it.
In short, for those of you who are too long out of school, it is during the pre-adolescent and adolescent years that anti-gay harassment is at its apex. As a small-sized, socially inept straight, I discovered just how hateful kids can be toward one just labelled "fag". It's no wonder that the friends I had in school who actually were gay never let any one know it. The Day of Silence is an effort to counter that bigotry. Participation by concerned teens, straight, gay, and other helps raise awareness of the anti-gay aggression prevalent in the schools and of the humanity of its victims.
The Day of Truth - well, that's an obnoxiously self-righteous attempt to distract attention from the hurt being caused in our schools and to focus it instead on "fighting the homosexual agenda". Kind of a slap in the face if you ask me.
Posted by smijer at April 28, 2006 07:26 AM