A ‘Day of Silence’ homosexuals won’t discuss
- May 8, 2008 - 7
Editors’ note: Warning, this column may contain words or descriptions of actions that some may find objectionable. Parents should carefully consider whether this is appropriate reading for children.
Homosexual activists were allowed to observe their national Day of Silence (DOS) in the campuses of about 20 Missouri public schools and colleges April 25. The activists say the observance is to draw attention to violence perpetrated against homosexuals because of their chosen lifestyle. Participating students plan to not speak the entire day.
DOS has become highly controversial – and rightly so. It is nothing more than an attempt to use the public school system to indoctrinate children with the homosexual lifestyle. Many parents chose to keep their children home rather than have them subjected to homosexual propaganda. School officials knew they were dealing with a potential bombshell and some went to great lengths to explain their position.
“The Jefferson City Public Schools and Jefferson City High School are not actively supporting or promoting the Day of Silence,” spokesman David Luther told the Jefferson City News Tribune. “However, we recognize that there may be students in our schools who wish to participate and, as long as they do not disrupt the school day or instructional time, it is their First Amendment right to do so.” I agree. I have no problem with any group, including Christian prayer groups, meeting at public institutions as long as participation is voluntary and their meeting does not disrupt the business of the public institution –in this case the education of students.
On the other hand, it is improper for any activist or educator to use good-hearted but misguided children as political pawns in an attempt to promote homosexuality. This becomes even more outrageous given the health risks associated with such a dangerous lifestyle. For example, Matt Foreman, outgoing executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force recently confessed that “HIV is a gay disease.” The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that “people with same-sex sexual behavior are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders and a study by pro-homosexual researchers in Canada published in 1997 in the International Journal of Epidemiology, revealed that homosexual men are living eight to 20 years less than heterosexual men.
Given the medical evidence alone, DOS is nothing more than educational malpractice. But there is more. It circumvents parental authority and flies in the faces of children who hold to traditional moral values based on the Bible. In addition, studies have shown that the number of violent acts perpetrated by homosexuals against heterosexuals is shocking. A recent study by the Family Research Institute revealed that 35 percent of all foster-parent molestations were by homosexuals.
Ultimately, DOS is not about violence against homosexuals. It is political propaganda. The homosexual movement’s goal is to have special treatment for homosexuals – including marriage – codified into law and if anyone dares to speak against their chosen lifestyle (even from the pulpit), they are to be silenced or perhaps jailed.
One of the homosexual organizations behind DOS is the Gay, Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which is pressing for homosexuality to be taught in public schools. They are the group that was caught teaching public school children in Massachusetts how homosexuals have sex, including the disgusting act of fisting. GLSEN is well-funded and working hard at establishing chapters at public schools throughout Missouri and the rest of the nation.
It should be noted, that according to the organizers’ Web site, www.dayofsilence.org, this year’s DOS event was also being held in remembrance of Lawrence King, a 15-year-old California boy killed in February by a classmate. What was the alleged motive? King embraced homosexuality. Christians believe that all life is precious and King’s death was a tragedy, but I doubt the silence homosexual activists exhibited for King April 25 was the same they exhibited following the death of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising of Rogers, Ark., on Sept. 26, 1999.
Dirkhising died after he was bound with duct tape, given an overdose of an anti-depressant drug, tied to a bed, gagged with his own underwear and repeatedly raped over a period of hours by Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, while his homosexual lover, Davis Don Carpenter, watched. Police said when they found the seventh grader they could not attempt to revive him for fear of exposing themselves to disease. A stench emanated from the room where he lay, his face blue, blood dripping from his mouth and excrement smeared all over his body. Brown, convicted of first-degree murder, is serving a life prison sentence.
Seducing young boys and practicing sadistic sex is not uncommon among homosexuals. It is interesting to note that the very day Dirkhising was raped and murdered, the annual Folsom Street Leather Fair was being held in San Francisco, celebrating sadomasochism with public demonstrations of whippings and bondage. During the 1993 Gay Rights March on Washington, a government auditorium was provided so they could show such “sex tools” as whips, chains, bondage devices and electric cattle prods. There was also a large photo of “fisting,” the revolting act taught by GLSEN.
If the homosexual lobby wants to have a day of silence, why don’t they include innocent, victimized children like Jesse Dirkhising? I’ll tell you why they do not. They do not want people to know because it could have a negative effect on their agenda. Of course they get help from their supporters in the news media as well. When a homosexual in Wyoming named Matthew Shepard was murdered by two men, hundreds of stories were published decrying violence against homosexuals. When homosexuals murdered young Dirkhising, it was largely ignored.
The news media is largely pro-homosexual, says Michael Johnston, a spokesman for Kerusso Ministries, a Christian network that monitors the homosexual movement. “They’ve decided some time ago that they believe homosexuality is innate, that homosexuals can’t change. They don’t see it as a moral issue – which it certainly has been for thousands of years all around the world – but as a civil rights issue,” he said.
Homosexual activists can raise money “when they demonize Christians, when they can convince the rest of the world that every homosexual on every block is under immediate threat of death or assault,” Johnston continued. “It certainly isn’t true. I’m a former homosexual and that was not my experience, nor was it the experience of anyone I knew.
“We can agree to speak out against crime, but if we’re going to speak out against crime and violence, we’ve got to do it with integrity. We’ve got to do it in a real world where we realize that there is crime and there is violence, but that the reality is most of it isn’t against homosexuals, it’s against people in general. The homosexual community has no desire to discuss that issue with any integrity.
“The answer to the problem is going to have to be spiritual in nature,” he said.
This article is reprinted from the May 6, 2008, issue of The Pathway, the newsjournal of the Missouri Baptist Convention.
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1 On May 9th, 2008, at 9:15am, Bob wrote:
Gays are subjected to increased rates of violence and mental disorders, not because of this particular sexual orientation, but because of the intolerance, ignorance, and fear of closed-minded people toward others that are perceived as different. Thats why so many of your family and friends, who self-identify as heterosexual, and actually GLBT. It’s time to put this behind us and embrace inclusion and acceptance. We owe this much to all of our gal and lesbian members of our military are are serving our nation.
2 On May 9th, 2008, at 9:45am, Dan Valdes wrote:
Dear Don Hinkle,
Why do you not tell your readers what the Family Research Institute is?
This is their own words....
“The Family Research Institute was founded in 1982 with one overriding mission: to generate empirical research on issues that threaten the traditional family, particularly homosexuality, AIDS, sexual social policy, and drug abuse.”
With that as the mission statement it’s hardly a surprise they would come up with “facts” that make gays look bad. They are IN BUSINESS to make gays look bad. They dig for dirt and where there is none, they generate some.
It’s laughable that you would use such a biased organization as foundational to your argument.
3 On May 9th, 2008, at 10:01am, Dan Valdes wrote:
All of the “studies” by the Family Research Institute are by Paul Cameron, a psychologist that uses his own work to generate “evidence” that gays threaten children, conclusions that are generally at odds with other published data.
He is largely ignored by the scientific community because he is apparently unable to be scientifically objective about his “work”.
Furthermore on December 2, 1983, the American Psychological Association notified Paul Cameron that he had been dropped from membership.
In 1984 they notified ALL their members that he had been dropped “for a violation of the Preamble to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists.”
4 On May 12th, 2008, at 4:30pm, Richard Schanno wrote:
Wow! Lies from paragraph one. You people really need to do a bit more research. Oh yeah and please show me proof that your “god” exists.. Please
5 On May 13th, 2008, at 2:26am, Stephen wrote:
Just another sign that the SBC doesn’t treat gays and lesbians with the same love and respect that Jesus Himself treated others with. We don’t have that problem in the Episcopal Church. Think about it.
6 On May 13th, 2008, at 9:09am, Dan Valdes wrote:
Don Hinkle says..."Seducing young boys and practicing sadistic sex is not uncommon among homosexuals.”
But what do you base that statement on Mr. Hinkle?
The tragic fact is that most child molestation is heterosexual in nature.
* Three out of four children who were victimized were female, according to the U. S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics.
* Nearly two-thirds of convicted child molesters and/or offenders were or had been married according to the Survey of Inmates of State Correctional Facilities by the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics AND....
...Child molesters and offenders were more likely to have grown up in a two parent home and were more likely to have been molested as a child.
7 On May 14th, 2008, at 7:44am, Dan Valdes wrote:
Mr Hinkle writes..."The news media is largely pro-homosexual, says Michael Johnston, a spokesman for Kerusso Ministries, a Christian network that monitors the homosexual movement.”....
....but he omits the scandal that in 2003 Mr. Johnston failed to disclose his HIV + status to men he was having sex with and five years after starring in a national advertising campaign along side his mother, claiming gays can change their sexual orientation, Michael Johnston experienced a “moral fall” and left behind his ministries.