Brody's Notes... Linda Harvey's Yearly Battle Over Day Of Silence Observance Commences

Linda Harvey  (File Photo)

By Brody Levesque | COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Conservative pundit and virulently anti-gay Linda Harvey whose Mission America organisation was just listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a certified hate group, has launched her yearly campaign to demonise and counter the GLSEN sponsored "Day Of Silence." Founded in 1996, the Day of Silence has become the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. From the first-ever Day of Silence at the University of Virginia in 1996, to the organizing efforts in over 8,000 middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities across the country in 2008, its textured history reflects its diversity in both numbers and reach.

Harvey- writing on her blogsite MissionAmerica.com- says,

On Friday April, 20, 2012, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is once again exploiting public schools to promote homosexuality and gender confusion as moral and normative through the political protest called the Day of Silence.

A coalition of pro-family groups is urging parents to keep their children home from school on the “Day of Silence,” if your school is allowing students to refuse to speak in class.

The GLSEN Day of Silence, which began on college campuses and has now infiltrated even middle schools, exploits anti-bullying sentiment to undermine the belief that homosexual acts are immoral.

GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which is considered the nation's leading education organization for LGBTQ related issues, has been the official sponsor of the National Day of Silence since 2001, according to a spokesperson has been working to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression

The National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country take some form of a vow of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools. Through their activities students can speak out against harassment and organize for change for their schools and communities. ~ GLSEN

Harvey disagrees writing:

GLSEN shamelessly exploits teen suicide in order to create a climate of hysteria which they then use to falsely impute culpability for teen suicide to conservative moral beliefs.

GLSEN’s end game is the eradication of conservative moral beliefs and the creation of a social and political climate in which it is impossible to express them. Their cultural vehicle of choice for this radical social experiment is public education. What a strategic coup for homosexualists: use our money to capture the hearts and minds of our children.

Efforts to exploit public education for the purpose of eradicating conservative moral beliefs are dramatically increasing every year. Homosexual activists and their allies are aggressively targeting younger and younger children through “anti-bullying” laws, policies, and curricula; through the effort to nationalize “comprehensive sex ed”; through laws mandating positive portrayals of homosexuality and gender deviance in curricula; and through events like the Day of Silence, National Coming Out Day, Ally Week, Transgender Day of Remembrance; and Spirit Week.

And conservatives do virtually nothing. Our complacence makes us complicit in the damage done to our children and our culture.

Phone inquiries and e-mail requests for an interview regarding her stance by LGBTQNation went unanswered.