As a Senior, I currently attend M. High School. Today the nation-wide event “Day of Silence” took place across high school and college campuses every where. To preface this article, I want to make it clear that I do not have qualms with gays or anything of that sort. I respect all human beings that walk this earth.
In response to this event, I had previously voiced my disagreement by creating a Facebook group here (entitled “There are more things to go silent an entire day for…”) and had all along decided to respectfully observe the day as it happened. Last night, my sister and I also decided to cut around 80 orange “remembrance” ribbons for the murder-victims of Virginia-Tech with small safety-pins to hand out to any student who wanted to wear one.
This morning, the Gay-Straight alliance club and their supporters almost gleefully took to the high school hallways with their outfits doused in black and attached pink 6×4 index cards with a folded ribbon detailing their mission. Read the rest of this entry »