(AgapePress) - A homosexual activist group is urging junior high, high school, and college students across the country to take part in its annual "Day of Silence" event.

The project is coordinated by a radical group called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and is designed to protest what it describes as "anti-lesbian gay bisexual transgender abuse and discrimination." Earlier this month, Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel of New York called on Congress to recognize the efforts of those who are organizing and participating in the event. It was the second year in a row that Engel had introduced such a resolution.

Organizers claim the event is intended to "create more inclusive school environments." But Peter LaBarbera of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute says the project is a blatant attempt to push the transgender agenda on children, and just another vehicle to promote homosexuality and gender confusion in schools.

Peter LaBarbera

"We wish that the homosexual activists would be silent 365 days a year," LaBarbera says. "We see their promotion of homosexuality in schools as disruptive -- it violates the firmly held religious beliefs and moral beliefs of other students in the classroom, and it pressures schools to adopt pro-homosexual policies. So we wish that they would be silent all of the time."

Organizers are asking young students to show support for the event on Wednesday, April 9, by passing out pro-homosexual information cards and wearing T-shirts and stickers that promote GLSEN's social agenda. LaBarbera says parents need to take advantage of the time protesters are silent.

"Parents need to find out what's going on in their given school," he says. "They need to find if their school is participating in this Day of Silence, and then they need to tell the principal of the school -- and the teachers, if necessary -- that they don't want their school being used to promote alien values to their own children.

"We need to use this as an opportunity to find out what's going on in the schools," LaBarbera adds, "and to make it clear that schools are supposed to be for learning how to read, write, and do math -- not to promote homosexuality."

LaBarbera says concerned moms and dads can have their children hand out material that contains the biblical truth about homosexuality and the dangers associated with the aberrant lifestyle.

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