Conservative groups call for school boycott on Day of Silence
(New York City) A coalition of conservative Christian groups is calling on parents to pull their children out of school on the National Day of Silence, scheduled to take place in hundreds of schools on Friday.
The coalition is made up of organizations that have a national history of opposing LGBT civil rights and includes The American Family Association, Campaign for Children and Families, Concerned Women for America, Liberty Council, and Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays.
“The implicit purpose of the Day of Silence is to undermine the belief that homosexuality is immoral,” the groups said in a statement. “It is the belief of the sponsors of the Walkout that parents should no longer passively accept the political usurpation of taxpayer- funded public school classrooms through student silence.”
The statement said that parents can express their opposition by calling their children out of school on the Day of Silence and sending letters of explanation to their administrators, their children’s teachers, and school board members.
“This day is not about ‘tolerance’ as it claims, but about forcing propaganda and acceptance of high-risk behavior into the schools with no opposing views allowed,” said Linda Harvey of Mission America.
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