Comments on: Day of Silence http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/day-of-silence/ Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:11:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Announcement « Pursue God http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/day-of-silence/#comment-1635 Announcement « Pursue God Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:38 +0000 http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-1635 [...] in Day of Silence at UC Santa [...] [...] in Day of Silence at UC Santa [...]

]]> By: Christians Against Anti-Gay Bullying « Pursue God http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/day-of-silence/#comment-1525 Christians Against Anti-Gay Bullying « Pursue God Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:32:16 +0000 http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-1525 [...] year, I expressed deep dismay over right-wing Christian protests of Day of Silence, including grown men and women picketing [...] [...] year, I expressed deep dismay over right-wing Christian protests of Day of Silence, including grown men and women picketing [...]

]]> By: Lessons From Uganda’s Homosexuality Conference « Pursue God http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/day-of-silence/#comment-1415 Lessons From Uganda’s Homosexuality Conference « Pursue God Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:59:55 +0000 http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-1415 [...] The gay community was particularly concerned about speaker Scott Lively, who has been described as a “Nazi revisionist” for his book The Pink Swastika. I knew nothing about Lively so I checked the web to read articles and statements he has written. Lively appears to be an ultra-conservative who falls into the same group as Americans for Truth, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, and Mission: America. He promotes the view that a sinister gay agenda will destroy civilization as we know it if it is not stopped. According to his booklet, Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child, he believes gays are trying to seduce children, and that we are not far from Greco-Roman days when pederasts roamed the streets to molest children on their way to school. He also promotes the view that homosexuality is absolutely acquired with no biological underpinnings. He is vested in denying any possible genetic contributors because if homosexuality is acquired, then it can be stopped. Lively even goes so far as to blame gays for the Nazi holocaust. In the preface of the 4th edition of The Pink Swastika, he demonizes homosexuals as the “true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind Nazi atrocities.” Like most ultra-conservatives, he believes in fighting gay activists via such methods as exemplified by his friend Ken Hutcherson who picketed high school students on the Day of Silence. [...] [...] The gay community was particularly concerned about speaker Scott Lively, who has been described as a “Nazi revisionist” for his book The Pink Swastika. I knew nothing about Lively so I checked the web to read articles and statements he has written. Lively appears to be an ultra-conservative who falls into the same group as Americans for Truth, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, and Mission: America. He promotes the view that a sinister gay agenda will destroy civilization as we know it if it is not stopped. According to his booklet, Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child, he believes gays are trying to seduce children, and that we are not far from Greco-Roman days when pederasts roamed the streets to molest children on their way to school. He also promotes the view that homosexuality is absolutely acquired with no biological underpinnings. He is vested in denying any possible genetic contributors because if homosexuality is acquired, then it can be stopped. Lively even goes so far as to blame gays for the Nazi holocaust. In the preface of the 4th edition of The Pink Swastika, he demonizes homosexuals as the “true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind Nazi atrocities.” Like most ultra-conservatives, he believes in fighting gay activists via such methods as exemplified by his friend Ken Hutcherson who picketed high school students on the Day of Silence. [...]

]]> By: Beyond the Religious Right « Pursue God http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/day-of-silence/#comment-910 Beyond the Religious Right « Pursue God Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:01:46 +0000 http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-910 [...] of re-act? It would involve putting down the picket signs and engaging in conversation. Instead of protesting high school students on the Day of Silence, why not spend time with these youth? Did you know that, contrary to many [...] [...] of re-act? It would involve putting down the picket signs and engaging in conversation. Instead of protesting high school students on the Day of Silence, why not spend time with these youth? Did you know that, contrary to many [...]

]]> By: janie http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/day-of-silence/#comment-710 janie Thu, 01 May 2008 13:42:52 +0000 http://pursuegod.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-710 As a straight conservative Christian who wants to support my GLBT brothers and sisters, but allowed many Days of Silence to slip by me unnoticed: "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further...." "I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes." Job 40:4-5; 42:5-6 (ESV) May the Lord bless you. As a straight conservative Christian who wants to support my GLBT brothers and sisters, but allowed many Days of Silence to slip by me unnoticed:

“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
I have spoken once, and I will not answer;
twice, but I will proceed no further….”

“I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 40:4-5; 42:5-6 (ESV)

May the Lord bless you.

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