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Day of Truth
FIRST-PERSON: “Day Of Truth”
confronts the homosexual agenda
By Alan Sears
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--In the California Theater of America’s growing Culture
War, the advocates of homosexual behavior have opened what the old World War II
movies used to call a “second front.”
Not content with their so-far stalled efforts to get "same-sex marriage"
judicially imposed on America, the vanguard of sexual advocacy is now at work on
a new strategy –- effacing any recognition of authentic marriage from textbooks,
school materials and the minds of America’s children.
Calif. Senate Bill 1437 passed California’s Senate Judiciary Committee the first
week of April, bound for a vote on the Senate floor. The bill, as currently
conceived, would virtually rewrite the state’s history and social science
textbooks to fit the conceits and demands of the homosexual legal agenda, laying
the groundwork for gender-neutral school bathrooms and the elimination of all
education material references to such “homophobic” terms as “mom and dad,” or
“husband and wife.”
If you didn’t realize we’d come that far ... if you hadn’t reckoned with the
advocates of homosexual behavior being so single-minded in their determination
to crack every moral cornerstone of the country ... if it never occurred to you
that they wouldn’t stop until they’d converted every child in America to their
fierce distortion of human sexuality ... maybe it’s because they’ve been so
quiet about it.
Oh, such advocates have their “gay pride” parades and their TV shows, and they
long ago seduced the major media and secured a stranglehold on the political
spotlight.
But it’s in the schools that these advocates are doing their greatest damage --
and they’re doing it by keeping their mouths shut.
It’s been 10 years since the advocates of homosexual behavior launched their
“Day of Silence” events in our nation’s public schools. The idea is simple
enough: for an entire day, participating students (joined more and more by
sympathetic teachers and administrators) go silent. If called upon to answer a
question in class or around campus, they present a card, detailing their
non-verbal support for allegedly oppressed “homosexual, bi-sexual, and
transgender” students everywhere.
It’s a great way to intimidate impressionable young people into support for
things like "same-sex marriage" and adoption demands of same-sex couples. And a
lot of statistics are proving just how impressionable our young people are.
A 2001 poll by Zogby International found that 85 percent of high school seniors
supported something called "homosexual rights." Two-thirds supported legalizing
"same-sex marriage," and 68 percent favored same-sex couples being allowed to
adopt children. Another 79 percent endorsed so-called anti-discrimination laws
specifically designed to protect people who engage in homosexual behavior, and
88 percent backed "hate crimes" legislation.
Five years later, in some polls the numbers are even worse, as tax-funded
education mandates more and more instruction for students in how to be
pro-“tolerance” and pro-homosexual behavior. The popular culture is awash with
those same messages, while a frightening number of parents, pastors and churches
continue to maintain their own discreet silence on what is fast-becoming the
pre-eminent social, legal and political issue of our times.
All that hush-hush from the devout leaves our young people deeply vulnerable to
those with the agenda -- which is why the “Day of Truth,” sponsored by the
Alliance Defense Fund, is such an important event on campuses all over the
country.
Scheduled for April 27 (one day following the “Day of Silence”), “Day of Truth”
is an ideal opportunity for young people to make a strong, thoughtful, outspoken
response to the tacit lies and subtle intimidations put forth on the “Day of
Silence.”
In between classes, “Day of Truth” participants will hand out cards of their
own, offering to share a candid, loving, fact-based counterpoint to the unspoken
assertions of the advocates for homosexual behavior. While making their case
from a Christian perspective, the “Day of Truth”ers will confront with
compassion -- not condemnation -- and restrict their discussions to the periods
before, after and between classes.
Because Christian students have encountered strong opposition on many campuses
for daring to speak the truth in love on these issues, the Alliance Defense Fund
is offering a broad array of legal resources to ensure full recognition of the
“Day of Truth” participants’ First Amendment rights.
Will it make a difference? Will these “Day of Truth” events sow seeds of
understanding, communication and spiritual healing sufficient to turn back the
rising tide of tacit support for homosexual demands among the youth of our
nation?
Time will tell. So much depends on the support these courageous Christian
students receive from their own families, friends and church leaders.
One thing is certain -– silence doesn’t teach anyone anything. But Proverbs
25:11 says that “a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of
silver.”
Let us pray that, on April 27, the “Day of Truth” participants will have some
apples for their teachers -- and their fellow students, as well.
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For more information about the Day of Truth, visit
www.DayofTruth.org.
Sears, a former federal prosecutor who held various posts in the departments of
Justice and Interior during the Reagan Administration, is president and CEO of
the Alliance Defense Fund (www.telladf.org), a Christian religious liberty legal
organization. He is co-author with Craig Osten of the book “The ACLU vs.
America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values,” available online at
www.lifewaystores.com
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