National Day Of Silence Is Coming To Missouri

The American Family Association (AFA) reports that on Friday, April 25th, a number of high schools around Missouri will be observing "Day of Silence" (DOS), an effort to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools.  The report I received contained a partial list of the schools participating:

Berkmar H.S.	Clayton H.S.	Crossroads H.S.
Hickman H.S.	Jefferson City H.S.	John Burroughs H.S.
Kirkwood Senior H.S.	Ladue Horton Watkins H.S.	Liberty H.S.
Liberty Senior H.S.	McCluer H.S.	Metro H.S.
Nerinx Hall H.S.	Pattonville Sr. H.S.	Raymore-Peculiar H.S.
Rock Bridge H.S.	South H.S.	Pembroke H.S
Van Horn H.S.	Webster Groves H.S.	Winnetonka H.S
William Chrisman H.S.

If you believe that our public schools should not participate in this national homosexual advocacy day, call your school and tell them.  In addition, if your school plans to go ahead with the DOS, AFS suggests keeping your kids home from school that day (and tell the school why you are doing it).  AFA gives the following resources:

A sample letter to send to your school.

Frequently asked questions about DOS.

AFA suggests the following course of action:

If your school is listed, call your local school and ascertain whether they officially or passively allow students to observe "Day of Silence." Please double-check with your local school to see if the school is actually sponsoring DOS. Sometimes the "participation" turns out to be a handful of kids who are saying they have a homosexual club and are observing this protest day, but without school endorsement. We sincerely hope your school, if listed, is not actually an official sponsor. If it is not, we will take them off the list, if a school official asks us to do so. Please e-mail your correction to webmaster@missionamerica.com.

Some tips:

1. Be sure of the date that DOS is planned for your school. (The national date is April 25, but some schools observe DOS on a different date.)
2. Inform the school of your intention to keep your child home on that date and explain why. See the sample letter above.
3. Explain to your children why you're taking a stand: Homosexual behavior is not an innate identity; it is a sinful, unnatural and destructive behavior. No school should advance a physically, emotionally, and spiritually destructive sexual lifestyle to students.
4. Schools do not have to tolerate students remaining silent in class. Schools can adopt policies that require parental consent for students to attend any club, including those premised on sexual orientation or gender identity. Here is more information from Attorney Mat Staver with Liberty Counsel who provides free information to parents, students, and schools regarding their rights associated with noncompliance on the Day of Silence.

It is one thing to be tolerant.  It is entirely another to allow taxpayer-funded public schools to celebrate an agenda that is contrary to your beliefs.  AFA says that 19 Missouri schools have already withdrawn from DOS due to parents calling/writing and threatening to pull their kids from school if it sponsors DOS, so you CAN have a great impact.  The homosexual lobby knows that if it can infiltrate the education system, it will change America's mindset and direction forever, and this is one more way they're trying to do that.  If this is important to you, take action.

There's my two cents.