She won't stay mum about Day of Silence - Board member warns of 'dangers of a homosexual lifestyle'

[WillParkinson]

She won't stay mum about Day of Silence
New board member warns of 'dangers of a homosexual lifestyle'

Germantown — Is it a day to combat bullying or a way to promote gay rights?

Newly elected School Board member Diana Kline so strongly opposed the Day of Silence observance at the high school Friday, she had planned to keep her two children home that day, according to an e-mail she sent to district administrators and board members.

On Tuesday, Kline declined to comment on the Day of Silence or whether she kept her children home, but Superintendent Kenneth Rogers confirmed that three students did not attend school that day for personal reasons. He could not confirm those personal reasons.

The Day of Silence is a student-led national event that brings attention to the name-calling, bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Students from middle school to college take some form of a vow of silence to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.

The event is designed to illustrate the silencing effect of this bullying and harassment on LGBT students and those perceived to be LGBT.
Kline opposes 'propaganda'

Kline stated in her e-mail that the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, which sponsors the event, "promotes students and faculty to remain silent during instructional time of the day and/or it promotes teachers to arrange their lesson plans as such to create an environment that allows students and faculty to remain silent during class time."

"I will not allow them (her children) to be exposed to this misguided propaganda in the public school," she wrote.

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Make sure you read the comments!

[Kerrytravelers]

1. So, when her kids go back to school and ask the other students what happened...

... does this lady think that people are going to lie to keep her story going?

And this person sits on a school board? Wonderful. :eyes: If I were the parent of a GLBTQ student, I'd be all over her ass.

[Historic NY]

2. Check out the comments...most people think she is just ignorant.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

3. What I Want to Know...

is why anytime the Christianists are called out on their hatred and mean-spiritedness, they make out that they are persecuted? I was glad to see that most of the posters are compassionate, decent individuals. I get so tired of all the bullshit being pushed by the Religious Wrong in this country. Don't approve of a GLBT oreintation? Then don't have a GLBT relationship! Nobody is saying anyone has to join in. Ditto for the Day Of Silence.

The one poster who claimed that those who support the DOS are cyber-bullies. Obviously this bint has never been the victim of full-on bullying. However it did give the poster a forum to bleat about how the poor little Christians are being bullied. The entitlement-mindedness and paranoia of the Christianist never ends. Go to some Muslim country and try this bullshit of wanting to ram Christianity down the throats of everone you come across. Then, you will learn what REAL persecution is! These people are not being persecuted--they are being put in their place, something which should have happened long ago.

And if the Day of Silence is weighted in favour of GLBT kids, could it possibly be that more GLBT kids are bullied than straight? I suspect that if accurate figures were available, the results would bear me out. The Christianists, like Ms. Kline would rather that the DOS be scrapped rather that to support one gay kid. This is why I call the bitch out as "mean-spirited". Being GLBT is not immoral, being unwilling to accept that something needs to be done about the bullying of ALL kids, including GLBT kids--is what is immoral.

The Godsgirl bint really ticked me off. She probably doesn't know of the sexual abuse and eventual failure rate that is part and parcel of the "ex-gay" "ministries". Even if she did, however, it is be more important to her that GLBT people not disturb her little comfort zone. That, at bottom, is why these idiots keep mentioning "ex-gay" "inistries": if they don't see it, it doesn't exist and their comfort zone is maintained.

All in all, I am glad to see that the majority of the posters made a stand for decency and tolerance.

[sui generis]

4. she's just ignant.

The real reason people some people are violently insanely irrational about us queers is because they've been conditioned to protect their own genetic viability by controlling the reproductive practices of the people likely to compete for and mate with their offspring. If that population is reduced by the presence of gays then they have fewer choices for managing their gene lines downstream, especially in a paternalistic society.

It's caveman stuff. If more people are inured to having gays living openly among them, the tribe's direction will be less oriented around the community rationale of competing for superior genes, and creating and protecting subsequent offspring.

It's atavistic to be "scared" of teh gay. It's also appropriate. We're not the weaker sex, unless conditioned to be that way, and either way our reproductive choices are not subject to the judgement of anyone else, much less some stupid moron making absurd morality claims based on early goat herder society.

I'll persecute Christians with a little factoid, just to return the spirit: the biggest most horrific acts against Christians throughout history have been perpetrated by Christians upon other Christians in the name of christianity. Horrific, mind boggling acts of horror from Constantinople to Ireland - you people deserve each other.

Leave us queer folk alone and we'll leave you alone, but I'm not at all about turning the other cheek. Busybodies go home. Mind your own pink parts.