In schools across America this Friday, a  National Day of Silence is going to be observed.  Not for our fallen war heroes.  Not for Civil Rights Legends.  And, of course, not for slain Christians in the Middle East.

It will be a Day of Silence in support of Gay and Lesbian Students, organized by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network.

Per their website:

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

We believe that such an atmosphere engenders a positive sense of self, which is the basis of educational achievement and personal growth. Since homophobia and heterosexism undermine a healthy school climate, we work to educate teachers, students and the public at large about the damaging effects these forces have on youth and adults alike. We recognize that forces such as racism and sexism have similarly adverse impacts on communities and we support schools in seeking to redress all such inequities.

GLSEN seeks to develop school climates where difference is valued for the positive contribution it makes in creating a more vibrant and diverse community. We welcome as members any and all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or occupation, who are committed to seeing this philosophy realized in K-12 schools.

K – 12?????

Founded as a local group in 1990, the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network (GLSTN) began as a volunteer group of 70 gay and lesbian educators. At that time, there were two Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) in the nation, only one state with policy in place to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students, and a general lack of awareness of the needs of LGBT students. LGBT youth did not have a voice in the education community or in the LGBT movement. There were few, if any, resources available for teachers to discuss LGBT issues.

However, groups of concerned individuals began to establish chapters across the country, advocating locally and regionally for safe schools for students

In 1995 GLSTN became a national organization and hired it first full time staff person, GLSTN’s founder and Executive Director Kevin Jennings. In 1997, GLSTN staged its first national conference in Salt Lake City, UT to respond to the legislature’s move to ban all student groups in an effort to prevent the formation of GSAs in the state. It is also this year that GLSTN changes its name to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, in order to attract new members to the struggle for safe schools for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/ expression.

Currently, GLSEN has registered more than 4,000 GSAs, has approximately 40 full time staff, a governing board of 20 members and two advisory committees at the national level.

Kevin Jennings…Kevin Jennings…why does that name ring a bell?   Oh, yeah…

From foxnews.com, September 23, 2009:

Conservatives are up in arms about the appointment of Kevin Jennings, Obama’s director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, saying he is too radical for the job.

President Obama’s “safe schools czar” is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.

Jennings was appointed to the position largely because of his longtime record of working to end bullying and discrimination in schools. In 1990, as a teacher in Massachusetts, he founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which now has over 40 chapters at schools nationwide. He has also published six books on gay rights and education, including one that describes his own experiences as a closeted gay student.

The OSDFS was created by the Bush administration in 2002. According to its Web site, one of its primary functions is to “provide financial assistance for drug and violence prevention activities and activities that promote the health and well being of students in elementary and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education.”

Per David Horowitz’s discoverthenetworks.org:

…GLSEN is funded by many corporate sponsors (including the Turner Broadcasting System) and a number of large foundations: the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation’s “Kicking Assets” program, the National Education Association, the California Community Foundation, California Teachers Association, the Gill Foundation, the Glickenhaus Foundation, the Human Rights Campaign, the Human Civil Rights Organization of America, the Johnson Family Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, the Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation, and the Turner Broadcasting System.

…Pushes its agenda through “anti-bullying” legislation

There are anti-bullying posters in schools everywhere.

…Promotes instruction about sexually explicit acts to grade-school children.

…At a 2001 GLSEN conference, activist leaders passed out “fisting kits” to the students and teachers in attendance. Provided by Planned Parenthood representatives, each kit consisted of a plastic glove, a package of K-Y lubricant, and instructions on how to make a “dental dam” out of the material (for purposes of oral sex).

Horowitz relays information that Gateway Pundit found out about the content of those text books, but sensitivity forbids me from publishing it in this post.  Please follow the earlier link, if you wish to read more.

The purpose of this post is not to be hateful.  As a 52 year old, I have gone to school with, worked with, attended church with, and even had family members who were homosexuals.  I have  worked side-by-side with them, prayed for them, and in the case of family members, loved them and continue to love them, with all my heart.

As is the case with each and every one of us, they will have to stand before God one day.

What I object to, is the propagandizing and instruction of innocent schoolchildren through the normalization of the Homosexual lifestyle and the introduction of what is nothing less than Homosexual pornography to those who will be imprinted by it.

This blatant political propaganda has no place in America’s schools, especially in the lower grades.  This Administration should be ashamed of themselves.

But, they aren’t.