No Name-Calling, Please
By Monte Kuligowski (01/26/05)
Upon clicking a top news story with the caption, “U.S. Middle Schools to Promote Tolerance,” I came across a Jan. 23 AP article asserting that middle schools across the country will participate in a “No Name-Calling Week” initiative from Monday, Jan. 24 through Friday, Jan. 28.
The first question – among many – that comes to my mind is, “what middle school in the country doesn’t already have a policy against name-calling?” What middle school kid wouldn’t be in trouble for taunting and making fun of the less fortunate, the overweight, the handicapped or the plain weird and strange?
So what’s the point of the initiative?
The code word “tolerance,” as usual, yields the answer. Whenever you hear the word, a red flag should go up in your mind. Hidden within the benign and even virtuous idea of a no name-calling week lurks the agenda of the radical homosexual movement to advance their cause of promoting and forcing the acceptance of homosexual practice upon society.
It shouldn’t be surprising to discover that the initiative is the brainchild of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network. The related web site of the initiative explains that the idea was sparked from the book, “The Misfits,” by openly homosexual author, James Howe. The book “tells the story of four best friends trying to survive the seventh grade in the face of all too frequent taunts based on their weight, height, intelligence, and sexual orientation/gender expression.” Thrown in the mix at the end of the list we find “sexual orientation/gender expression.” Although this issue is named last on the list it’s the area of preeminent importance to the homosexual activist. Maybe some activists do have a genuine concern about fat kids being teased, but they really care about homosexuality being accepted as a normal lifestyle. Presumably, middle school kids are mature enough to choose homosexuality; or, as GLSEN would like to believe, old enough to discover their gayness. Therefore, they should be free to do so without facing negative peer pressure.
Homosexual activists wish to sow their seeds (of accepting homosexuality as normative) in innocent fields. The young aren’t able to distinguish the abstraction within the principle that a person shouldn’t be taunted even for behavior that is wrong or harmful. Without further instruction, young minds tend view everything in black and white: “If I’m not supposed to call Johnny fat, then it’s okay to overeat and play video games around the clock.” Not that it’s even an issue in most middle schools, but the same thinking applies to homosexuality. If a child is not to call a gay person names, then it’s okay to be homosexual.
It’s also interesting to note how the old media network is willing to run with stories – which otherwise would never make the news – that will work to advance the cause of promoting the acceptance of homosexuality. The way this non-story is run you might think schools nationwide are flocking to embrace the “No Name-Calling Week” initiative. It appears, however, that mostly individual teachers are (many, perhaps unwittingly) buying into the propaganda. According to the AP, “GLSEN is unsure how many schools will participate in this week’s event, but says 5,100 educators from 36 states have registered . . . .”
Of course, “no name-calling,” without an un-biblical agenda is a really good idea. It is a Judeo-Christian principle that society embraces. It’s a biblical principle that most parents teach their children. The apostle Paul instructs Christians in the epistle to the Ephesians to “be kind to one another” and to not even let “coarse jesting” be named among believers.
Towards the noble cause of no name-calling, I would propose an initiative for homosexual activists. We could call it, “No Calling Religious Conservatives Names.” Maybe then, the activists would cease and desist from labeling people with moral and religious objections to homosexual practice as “homophobic” or from resorting to other assorted names.
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