Tolerance Schmolerance.
Once again, the tolerance police have decreed that we should be tolerant of everyone except those who express a belief in Biblical truths. In opposition to their school's participation in the National Day of Silence, 100+ students at San Juan High School in California wore t-shirts with "Biblical quotations against sodomy and homosexuality." One t-shirt proclaimed "Don't touch God's rainbow."
Now you may or may not agree with student activism -- peaceful or otherwise -- in public high schools. Honestly, I'm not certain myself where I stand on that issue. However, let me tell you a little bit about what these students were protesting when they decided to put on those t-shirts.
What is the National Day of Silence? Again, from the manual:
Participants take a day long vow of silence and distribute or wear speaking cards with information about anti-LGBT bias and ways for students and others to "end the silence." Through Breaking the Silence events, students can speak out against harassment and demand change for their schools and communities.
Further on in the manual, students are given examples of how the day might look:
Many students make t-shirts with slogans supporting LGBT students and their allies. Students pass out “speaking cards” that state the intention of the day and ask for understanding and consideration from their peers, faculty and administrations.
Here's where I start to get confused. The school is not just allowing, but promoting this event, and they've got students wandering the halls wearing ideological statements on t-shirts who refuse to speak for the entire day. Again, let's set aside the argument of whether or not activism should be present in public schools, and whether or not an army of students not answering their teachers might have an impact on the learning outcome for that day.
In a school of over 1,000, 10% of the students decide to fight back. For the majority of their public school careers they've had the homosexual agenda crammed down their throats and they finally say enough is enough. On the day when their school is publicly endorsing the LGBT lifestyle, 100 or so students get up, put on t-shirts with simple Biblical messages and go to school.
What's the result of their peaceful protest? Are they given "understanding and consideration from their peers, faculty and administrations"? I think you might guess the answer to those questions. The students are "harassed by peers and teachers because of their message," and over 100 of them are suspended.
Other than the fact that they actually spoke when spoken to, how is what they did different from the Day of Silence participants? Everybody's wearing their own ideological message t-shirts, but it's only the Christians who get suspended. I'll tell you what, I applaud those students for their courage in standing up to the steamroller. They got squished this time, but they stood for the truth.
