Ethics

More Lies About Day of Silence

By Ed Brayton

You can really tell how effective the Day of Silence has been in spreading a message of equality among students by the sheer fury of the response from the anti-gay crowd. They're in the middle of a full scale freakout about the Day of Silence, which will take place on April 25th, demanding that anti-gay students skip school that day - and that schools allow them to do so with no consequences. Naturally, the Worldnutdaily is driving this bandwagon of lies and stupidity.

Liberty Counsel reports it has had complaints from parents and students about a wide range of misbehaviors or misrepresentations presented by schools.

For example, in one school district a principal told a father if his son was not at school on the "Day of Silence," the student would be given a failing grade for the year. In Indiana, parents were told by public school officials it was "against the law" for them to cancel the program or excuse absences that day. And in Iowa, a school board member said a student refusing to speak throughout a school day was no more disruptive than a "Christian wearing a cross."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).