Yesterday was the “Day of Truth.” The following news and propaganda sites have no follow-up coverage today:
Cybercast News Service
World Magazine Blog
SBC Baptist Press News
Family News in Focus
Townhall.com
AgapePress
WorldNetDaily
Advocate.com
The only site which covered the “Day of Truth” was 365.gay which ran a 200-word Associated Press article. Quote the AP story:
Alan Sears, president of the Alliance Defense Fund, said some participating students had been threatened through “intimidation and potential disciplinary action.”
No such evidence is offered up about “intimidation and potential disciplinary action” either in the article or ADF’s own website. Infact, the most recent press release linked on ADF’s main homepage is dated April 13th (the day BEFORE the “Day of Truth”) and for some unknown reason resorts to quoting a Detroit News online opinion poll showing overwhelming support for the event.
The Day of Truth has failed miserably but Alliance Defense Fund and religious right media outlets don’t even have the grace to accept it.
Yesterday was the “Day of Truth.” The following news and propaganda sites have no follow-up coverage today:
(List–omitted–consisting mostly of nutty right wing religious sites.)
Dan, one thing that you might want to consider is that this “Day of Truth” was nothing more than the analog of “straight pride parades.” Recall the “straight pride parade” organized in (where was it? Alberta? Saskatchewan?) a couple of years ago. The parade fizzled. Nobody cared. The organizer had been thrown in jail a couple of days earlier on an unrelated charge. It was a joke. A complete and total joke.
Whenever I encounter anyone who (pardon my french) bitches and moans about gay pride parades (and expresses a desire to have, for example, a straight pride parade), or who complains about HRC/NGLTF (which I’m not a fan of either, but I’m particularly referring to Steve Miller at IndeGayForum) or anything else, I suggest that they get up off their lazy asses and organize something more to their liking. The fact is that most people are to lazy to do it. So we get the bitching and moaning of these members of the 101st Keyboard Brigade over the internet.
Sorry for the rant. Well, not so sorry 😉
I wonder how much money was raised for the ‘Day of Truth’. And how much was spent on this event. And where the summed difference went. It seems that gays are the source of so much revenue; and so little spending: one almost wonders how religious groups could survive without the homosexual menace.
I couldn’t belive there was actually going to be a “Day of Truth” when I first heard of it. That and how it seemed “they” were claiming the word truth as theirs.
I’m happy about the lack of coverage today. Maybe this actually will be something that will go away if it is ignored.
Maria:
“I’m happy about the lack of coverage today. Maybe this actually will be something that will go away if it is ignored.”
I think it’s unwise to dismiss or underestimate this “Day of Truth” based on the turnout the first time around. Underestimating these types of initiatives is exactly how liberal folks have found themselves floundering in the face of the overwhelming conservative swing we’re experiencing in our culture.
What we do have in our favor is that DOT, like “National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day” is a lame knock-off, a disgruntled response to an already accepted day of observation – kinda like what PFOX is to PFLAG. In that regard, DOT has little chance of usurping Day of Silence. But that doesn’t mean it can’t cause a lot of harm before it goes away.