Criticizing homosexuality
Posted on April 21, 2007
Michigan student suspended for wearing ‘I’m straight’ sticker
We read:
“A Christian student has been punished by his Michigan high school for demonstrating opposition to a school event celebrating the homosexual lifestyle. The boy’s father, a pastor, says he’s frustrated the rights of Christian students are being constantly trampled on campus.
Oakridge High School in Muskegon, Michigan, is one of many schools across the U.S. that took part in Wednesday’s “National Day of Silence” — an event promoted heavily by homosexual activist groups, which view it as a day to protest alleged discrimination faced by students who identify as “gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT).” At Oakridge High, duct tape was passed out for students to wear over their lips as a way to show solidarity with homosexual students who are purportedly suffering in silence.
John Gardner is pastor of Holton Family Life Worship Center in Holton, a community of approximately 2,500 about 17 miles northeast of Muskegon. Pastor Gardner says his 15-year-old son David, a student at Oakridge High, was suspended for a day by the school because he wrote with a black marker “I’m straight” on a piece of duct tape and attached it to his shirt. He explains that David donned the message to voice his objection to the school’s participation in the Day of Silence.
“They asked him, at that point, to take it off,” Gardner says, “and David [asked] why do the rest of the kids in the class get to wear theirs and I can’t wear something about what I believe?” According to the pastor, the teacher then instructed David to remove the message or he would be “kicked out” of class. “And he said, ‘Well then, you’ll have to kick me out’ — and that’s what they did,” says David’s father.
But Still Possible to Criticize Homosexuality in Australia
ANZAC day is the day Australia remembers its war dead:
“An advertisement for a gay Anzac Day party that shows a near-naked man wearing a slouch hat has been branded a “desecration” of the Anzac spirit by the Victorian RSL.
Martin Stevens, who has worked as a Shrine of Remembrance guard for eight years, said yesterday he was horrified to discover he had become the unwitting star of an ad for an Anzac Day eve bash at the Peel Hotel in Collingwood. The ad was published in gay magazines and on the venue’s website.
“I saw my face and next to it there’s a near-naked bloke in an army hat,” Mr Stevens said. “I was just horrified. It’s insulting to the diggers [troops] and it’s just plain wrong.”
Victorian RSL president David McLachlan said the ad, which includes an image of the Rising Sun army badge, was an abuse of liberty. “This is a desecration of the Anzac Day memory and the Shrine of Remembrance, which represents the sacrifice of so many Victorians,” he said.
A spokesman for the hotel, Tom McFeely, said management now realised the ad was in poor taste and had removed it from the venue’s website. “I also delivered a hand-written apology to the RSL yesterday and we have made a donation to the Shrine fund,” Mr McFeely said.
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Assuming the facts of the case are as stated, and that no crucial
information is being judiciously overlooked, the school was in the wrong
and should get their derrieres legally handed to them on a platter. What will
also be judiciously overlooked (and/or scornfully disbelieved) is
that most liberal free-speech advocates will agree with me.
If the aclu would mind their own business and not worry about people,church and government this United States would be a better place to raise our kids the way they are supposed to be raised, Kids are supposed to learn about God and the ways of the world without a bunch of IDIOTS like the aclu trying to raise our kids on their beliefs and condemning our ways. Go back and get under that rock that you evidently live under and leave the American people alone and let them think for their selves. I seem to have been raised ok and the aclu surely wasn’t around when I came up, a strong discipline never hurt me at school or at home. Go find a life and leave ours alone..
David was not Punished. I go to oakridge and i saw all of this. He was given the choice to go home or take the sign saying “It’s great to be straight off”. All of the protesters were given the same choices with their signs.