"Day of silence": articolo in inglese di attualitą

Presentation of an article- Group makes noise over Day of Silence Presentation of an article - Group makes noise over Day of Silence by MSNBC.com Hi everyone!My article talks about the “Day of silence” ,an event which seeks to combat antigay bias in schools, in USA, begun on a small scale in 1996 and observed by tens of thousand of students annually at hundreds of schools and colleges across the country.Most Day of Silence participants go through the school day without speaking - a tactic for drawing attention to the isolation and harassment experienced by many gay students. Since 2001,Day of Silence observances have been coordinated by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) a New York-based organization that also has worked to support gay-straight alliances at high schools.The Alliance Defence Fund ,a Christian legal group that has opposed same-sex marriage is launching a counter-event called the Day of Truth aimed at mobilizing students who believe homosexuality is sinful. The event is endorsed by a several influential conservative organizations, including the Christian ministry Focus on the Family and the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. The first important point underlined by Kevin Jennings, the executive director of GLSEN, is that the Day of Silence was an event conceived of by students themselves in response to a very real problem of bullying and harassment they saw on their campuses, while the Day of Truth is a publicity stunt cooked up by a conservative organization with a political agenda, an effort to manipulate some kids. There's also a fundamental disagreement over the rationale for the Day of Silence. GLSEN and its allies say the silent protest is specifically targeting harassment of gay students, while the Alliance Defence Fund and other conservatives say GLSEN' s agenda is to broaden national acceptance of homosexuality. Finally, Mike Johnson, an Alliance Defence Fund attorney from Shreveport, said teachers and students critical of homosexuality had been forced to stifle their views while at school.He said they had had to come up with the Day of Truth because Christian kids had not been allowed to tell their opinion in the first place, but in his opinion that's only fair for the Christian perspective to present their view too if the other side is going to advance their point of view. In reply Jennings showed his agreement saying that there always should be a place in the school for respectful differences of opinion, GLSEN had no ambitions to keep schools free of all criticism of homosexuality, but he questioned whether the Alliance Defence Fund and its allies were committed to constructive dialogue.Apart from my sexual orientation, I've always supported the GLBT community because I believe gay and lesbian students should have the same rights as straight people and they should be accepted in human society like “normal” students -and that's could be anoth Continua »