Mix It Up at Lunch Day is celebrated on October 30th by an estimated 2,500 schools in an attempt to have children from different social cliques sit with one another during lunch, all in hopes of opening channels of communication and stop bullying.
Started 11 years ago by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the program hopes to see children break down differences and make a new friend.
Not so, says the American Family Association (AFA), a conservative evangelical group, which says Mix It Up at Lunch Day is a "nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools" by creating acceptance of others--whether that acceptance is of the geeky kid who loves him some Star Wars a little too much or the disabled kid in a wheelchair who has had a string of bad luck in life--and is now encouraging parents to keep their children home from school on October 30th.
Because if there's anyone to keep an eye on, it's that kindergartner who has an affinity for the Teletubbies.
The AFA claims that Mix It Up at Lunch Day is actually an "entry-level 'diversity' program designed specifically...to establish the acceptance of homosexuality in public schools"--which is news to the nearly 2,500 schools who took part in Mix It Up at Lunch Day last year without any flotilla of a gay pride moving through the cafeteria.
Nonetheless, the New York Times reports upwards of 200 schools have canceled their own Mix It Up festivities this year, potentially because of frightened parents calling schools. Of the twenty schools the Times contacted, only one would go on record as to why they canceled. That school--Chattahoochee County Education Center in rural Cusseta, GA--claimed they canceled because teachers were too busy trying to meet the basic state teaching requirements to hold Mix It Up at Lunch Day. At lunch. When teaching isn't happening.
"The decision had nothing to do with taking a position on gay rights," Tabatha Walton, the school's principal, told the Times, presumably with a straight face.
The American Family Association's director of issue analysis, Bryan Fischer, claims the Southern Poverty Law Center is actually the hate group here, because the SPLC accepts gays and lesbians. "The reality is we're not a hate group," Fischer told the Times. "We are a truth group...We tell the truth about homosexual behavior."
Wait--it gets better from Fischer.
"Anti-bullying legislation is exactly the same," Fischer told the Times. "It's just another thinly veiled attempt to promote the homosexual agenda. No one is in favor of anyone getting bullied for any reason, but these anti-bullying policies become a mechanism for punishing Christian students who believe that homosexual behavior is not something that should be normalized.”
Take a minute to wrap your head around that statement. Really, break it down logically. I'll wait.
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Doesn't make a lick of sense, right?
In case you're wondering what kind of flag-waving, pro-homosexual activities the Southern Poverty Law Center promotes for Mix It Up at Lunch Day, they include such saucy gay behavior as...
...making friends...
...teamwork...
...addressing cliques...
...and empathy.
Empathy. It's a gateway behavior to undressing Ricky Martin with your eyes.
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