Day of Silence

[morningrob]

I had a bit of a brianstorm last night. With Day of Silence at the end of April I thought it would be good if the church I work at could support it through something in Sunday worship. For those who do not know what it is here is an explanation from their website www.dayofsilence.org

"The Day of Silence is a student-led day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools take a day-long vow of silence to recognize and protest the discrimination and harassment -- in effect, the silencing -- experienced by LGBT students and their allies."

I talked to the pastor and he thinks it would a good idea to do something during worship.

Here is my question- anybody have any ideas about what to do. I am kicking around some things in my head but could use some suggestions. We are talking about something that is about 5 minutes long.

[NathanATX]

How about a skit where you have little groups of students walking, laughing and talking...

And someone comes behind the "gay" students and tap them on the shoulder... or puts a band or tape on their mouth... or something...

And they bow their head and stop walking and don't respond to their friends....

[suzer1013]

Ooh -- I love Nate's idea! And another take on that just popped into my head -- Perhaps you could have a skit that consists of a smallish choir joyfully singing "Jesus Loves Me" (or something like that), and then have a couple of "official" looking people come and put tape over the mouths of the "GLBT" choir members, and then tape the mouths of the "GLBT friends and family" who may try to protest the treatment, or protect their GLBT loved ones. The remaining few in the choir could still finish singing the song, but the song would not be whole and complete without all the voices. At the end, the "officials" smugly join in and finish singing the song.

Maybe that's hokey. Just a thought....

Susan