Day of Dialogue=My Religion Gives Me The Right To Bully You

The Day Of Silence is all about promoting the idea that we should respect those who are different and refrain from bullying. It has nothing to do with demanding anyone go against their faith, engage in activities that they don’t want to engage in, or to keep quiet about their beliefs or opinions. We all know that teens, just like the rest of us, live in the real world, and every day they are confronted with people who do things or hold opinions that they don’t agree with or understand. Some teens drink. Some don’t. Some do drugs. Some don’t. Some have sex. Some don’t. Some are Mormon. Some are Muslim. Some think we should bomb Iran. Some don’t. Of course they’re going to talk about their differences and express their opinions. But we all know that a few can be overbearing. A few simply can’t accept that others disagree with them. The Day of Dialogue is about encouraging teens from conservative Christian homes to be overbearing, to not only speak their minds, but to be pushy about it. As the adult women in this video clearly state, this is not merely about teaching their children to express their honest opinion when doing so is appropriate. It’s about EVANGELISM. It’s about trying to snuff out the beliefs of others and replacing them with your own, and in this case it’s specifically about snuffing out the belief that being LGBT is okay. Funny how Focus On The Family singles out this issue. Presumably they think it’s wrong to be Mormon, Muslim or Jewish, but they’re not out there openly training their kids to aggressively confront peers of other faiths. No, it’s the LGBT kids and their supportive friends who are the targets of their “evangelism”. This “evangelism” is not the same as promoting respect for LGBT people, even though Candi Cushman and her Focus on the Family cohorts would have you believe that. No one is asking conservative Christian students to never express their beliefs, or to abandon their beliefs or to become LGBT. It’s about recognizing that not everyone has the same beliefs. It’s about recognizing that LGBT kids are often bullied. It’s about how it’s wrong to make someone so uncomfortable and afraid that they don’t want to be in school, or even continue living.