Been following our 'Gay: let's get over it' campaign? Want to do more?

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello,

Hopefully lots of you will be aware of our joint campaign with Stonewall: Gay - let's get over it. The idea is to challenge the casual use of homophobic language among children and young people, particularly in the context of its use at schools. We're here to ask you to take action.

Lots of you have said you're in agreement with the aims (see this thread and our webchat with the ever-marvellous Will Young.)

So - we'd like you to take some action please!

In order for real change to happen, schools need to know about the campaign, and they need to know that parents support it. We're asking MNers to contact their schools asking them to sign up to the campaign.

You can Tweet at your school on Twitter (if both you and the school have accounts ); if you're Twitter-phobic, you could contact your school in other ways - on Facebook, by email, a good old-fashioned letter, or by marching up and down with a placard at pick-up time.* Nobble your headteacher, bend a governor's ear, recruit a mouthy pupil: the choice is yours. We've got sample tweets and shareable links on this page, downloadable guides for schools and parents here and posters for printing our and distributing here.

So do please ask your kids' school to get involved - and let us know how you get on.

Thanks
MNHQ

PS There's a list of UK schools on Twitter here.

*For the heavily committed and/or unembarrassable

Oh it's not "rubbish". Tolerance means living peacefully with and respecting those who hold a belief or practice a behaviour you disagree with, as opposed to hating or ostracizing them- but not affirming them and telling them what they do is morally good.

The anti-Christians have for years called tolerant people "intolerant" in the hope of them moving to a position of silence or approval; that agenda won't work with people experienced in countering such deception tactics like me.

'Tolerance means living peacefully with and respecting those who hold a belief or practice you disagree with.'

How does that go with your earlier statement that you should exhort them to repentance? That doesn't sound particularly peaceful for them.

And talking about not using prejudice-based language...phrases like 'an overt and unrepentant practicing lesbian' don't scream peace and tolerance. Judging and disapproval, yes, tolerance, no.

This whole campaign is about "disapproval" and "judging" of people who misuse words like gay- so you can't think they are always bad! Disapproval? I do disapprove of sexual activity between people of the same gender. Which is exactly the point I am making: One can disapprove and still be tolerant, by definition; it is how you treat people involved in that behaviour which matters. I will not be cowed by what appears to be a demand to approve or say nothing about it in the name of open affirmation neo-'tolerance'.

As for "judging"- we are supposed to make moral distinctions between right and wrong. It is hypocritical judging that Christ condemned as was being practiced by the Pharisees in Matthew 7. The "judge not" injunction must not be taken out of context to silence objections or disapproval, as members of the pro-gay movement have often done. Even Pope Francis in saying "who am I to judge" a gay priest was referring to one with the sexual orientation and not acting upon it, contrary to Benedict's position that there should be efforts to remove all gay priests celibate or otherwise. He has affirmed the teaching of the Church that 'genital acts between homosexuals can never be approved' but gay people deserve 'respect, compassion, and sensitivity'.

Saying to somebody that they should change their lifestyle or give up some form of sin will generate a negative reaction in many people but so long as believers seeking their conversion avoid coercive techniques and do not try to establish a society which denies religious freedom, it is a peaceful act! Anyone who employs intimidation (these being a small minority in Christianity and all major faiths) in service of missionary efforts is wrong... something I have never endorsed.