Can You Draw a Six-inch Square?

If you and two of your friends were each given a six-inch paper ruler and asked to draw a six-inch square, do you think you could do it?  But what if, upon cutting out your square along the lines and comparing it to the others, you found they were all different sizes, what would you do? 

Your answer to this exercise, developed by Josh McDowell in his “Right vs. Wrong” series for youth, has everything to do with how you make decisions, let alone where you end up in life.

And, it explains what happens when you Google “National Day of Silence” (DOS).

Each April, the 20^th this year, is billed as “a day of action in which students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender) bullying and harassment in schools.”

Ironically, in order to have their voice heard it isn’t – at least not in so many words, or for that matter words at all.

Recently the Tacoma News Tribune carried an unrelated story – unrelated at least in terms of subject - but relevant as to headline: “Exercising the voice of students” in which reporter Kathleen Merryman wrote of the student featured that “he sees silence as a cousin of cowardice.”

Students suffering harassment in schools however are honored with the silent treatment on the designated DOS.  This “student-led” effort is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) which is self-described as “Championing LGBT Issues in K-12 Education since 1990.”  GLSEN is endorsed by all manner of national lesbian rights organizations, all purportedly to win the right of students to study in a safe educational setting.

One of the supporting websites is entitled “Religious Tolerance” where there’s an interesting article “Is truth absolute, relative, or both?”  Was this Regis Philbin on the popular “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” TV game show, with his “final answer?” query, this is how the religiously tolerant article ends:

“Even if absolute truth exists in the religious sphere, we may never be able to determine what it is.”

Which probably explains why this Day of Silence supporting website promotes Witchcraft supplies, Wicca Books, and Wicca Love Spells interspersed with “Finding God”. 

And therein lays the problem – and the solution - with the six-inch ruler question.