NEW CASTLE, Ind. — Rumors of violence today forced a lockdown today at a New Castle school where some students planned a “day of action” to support gay rights.

Chrysler High School students were moved out of the building for a while, WTHR (Channel 13) reported.

For Thursday, other students are organizing a "Day of Truth" to counter what they see as a homosexual agenda.

A handful of students were suspended from a high school here for refusing to take off anti-gay T-shirts that administrators said were inappropriate.

The shirts, which the students wore in protest of the Day of Silence, said "Sodomy is sin" and quoted a Bible passage about homosexuality.

Phil Spears, interim principal of Rio Linda High School, said the shirts violated the school's dress code. Students were asked to take them off, he said, and were suspended if they disobeyed the request.

The national “Day of Silence,” designed to highlight the bullying and harassing of students who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered, resulted in the suspension of two Gulf Middle School students.

One of the pupils at the Cape Coral school was suspended after other students began yelling about a sticker she was wearing explaining the pledge of silence. The other suspended pupil had distributed some papers describing the Day of Silence, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

“These students violated school district policy,” Lee County School District spokesman Joe Donzelli said. “You can’t just hand stuff out without approval from administration. You can’t wear something that could become a disruption to the education process.”

The headline is more than a bit misleading. The students were not suspended for supporting the Day of Silence.

"The idea was to allow an opportunity for Christian students and those who adhere to a traditional moral viewpoint ... to respectfully present their side of the issue," Johnson said. "What we've found is typically it's the Christian kids who are being censored in their speech so that's why this is being created for them."

"What we've found is typically it's the Christian kids who are being censored in their speech so that's why this is being created for them."

On Wednesday, he was sent home as the newspaper article said, but we were given NO REASON (the paper said for his own safety). On Wednesday afternoon about 4:00, I received a phone call from Marable, the principal, and he said that Curtis did not need to come to school on Thursday. I asked if he had been threatened (Curtis) or if it was a punishment. He replied, “It don’t matter, He just don’t need to be here.” On Thursday afternoon my husband, Curtis’ STEP-FATHER, NOT HIS MOTHER, received a call from Marable saying that Curtis did not need to be in school on Friday. As you may guess, this fight is NOT over.

(Rio Linda, California) Supporters of students who were suspended for refusing to remove anti-gay t-shirts during last week's National Day of Silence demonstrated in front of Rio Linda High School outside Sacramento on Monday.

More than 100 people marched in front of the school, carrying signs that said "School persecutes Christians" and "School supports Sodomy". Five of the demonstrators were handcuffed and briefly detained when they attempted to enter the school.

They said the were "trying to clarify with the principal what our protest rights were," the Sacrament Bee reported.

The five were released with a warning they would be charged with trespassing if they attempted to cross onto school property again.

The demonstrators all came from area churches.