What’s worse than a child that doesn’t speak in a classroom? A child that doesn’t speak in a public classroom because he is advancing a homosexual agenda, apparently.
Seems that today is the Day of Silence, a protest effort begun by UVA students in 1996 and taken on by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) as a national educational tool, is raising the ire of a few folks. The Orlando Sentinel has an article about some schools in Florida where students that skip today for the purpose of protesting the Day of Silence will not be given excused absences. This has pissed off a few nonprofit educational organizations like the Liberty Counsel, which posted a press release on its website urging students to counter-protest by "wear[ing] white and to distribute flyers promoting sexual purity." Nothing says tolerance like pitting "purity" against sexual preference, right? Well, wahoowa, jackasses.
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