Re: National Educators Association Priorities

August 27, 2006

I can tell you that that is unequivitably NOT TRUE. The national Education

Association is dedicated to fostering the fact that every child has the right to

a quality basic public education. The part about gays and other things that

those that are against the NEA would like for you all to know is that we support

those in government that support public also tend to support those causes. But

please understand, the NEA only supports platform for public education.

( ) National Educators Association Priorities

Please tell me it isn't so! This truly disturbed me:

" before anything else, the first thing our teachers have to do is win

popular support for homosexual " marriage. " "

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/08/25/the_curious_ca

se_of_nea_priorities

Full article below:

The curious case of NEA priorities

By Alan Sears

Friday, August 25, 2006

It is, arguably, the most powerful union and lobbying group in the

country. And you cannot envy what its members are up against.

Day after day, the National Education Association (NEA) sees the same

statistics we do.

Plunging test scores. Floods of incoming college freshman who can't

read at even a sixth-grade level. Principals and school boards

groping for incentives that will draw better teachers into lifelong

service for high stress and infrequent appreciation.

Instead of embracing the joys of books and learning, America's

children are gorging junk food on the couch, dabbling with R-rated

music videos and video games while their synapses run headlong down

blind brain alleys.

Teacher morale remains low, as many grapple daily with parents who

are disengaged and apathetic, neurotic or demanding, angry or eager

to move their child into alternative educational settings.

Add to all that the professional pressures inherent in " No Child Left

Behind, " and you can understand how the NEA leaders who gathered this

summer in Orlando for their annual convention had their work cut out

for them. The toughest question was undoubtedly the first one: where

do we start, when it comes to fixing America's schools?

Well, they figured it out. And, really, faced with so many incredible

challenges, their priority makes sense. This is, after all, the NEA.

They know the classroom. They know the teachers. They know the real

challenges of education.

Which is why their elected leaders decided that, before anything

else, the first thing our teachers have to do is win popular support

for homosexual " marriage. "

That's right. The all-knowing members of the NEA decided that what

our kids need to know - more than math, geography, grammar, science,

or computer skills - is what men and men see in each other, why women

and women fall in love, and what our government and society " owes "

those who practice homosexual behavior.

You can see why that kind of information is critical to a third

grader, can't you?

Of course not. The NEA didn't think so. That's why they're taking the

matter out of your hands. Listen, when the world's largest teacher's

union elects to endorse same-sex " marriage, " they're not talking

tacit support. They're talking posters and projects, classroom

lectures and guest speakers, testimonials and textbooks - at every

grade level, and in every public school, in every school district in

America.

Questions, of course, accumulate. Among them:

What if a teacher or principal objects to same-sex unions, for

reasons of personal faith or experience? What if said educator

doesn't want his (often mandatory) NEA dues going to support those

who promote homosexual behavior? What if parents don't want their

children learning about sex (or sexual politics) at school? What if

children are ill-equipped, mentally or emotionally, to handle the

information presented by a zealous instructor?

Either the NEA has considered, and dismissed, these questions - in

which case the group that wants to exert the most significant impact

on America's teachers, parents, and children turns out to have no

real concern or compassion for our teachers, parents, or children...

or else the union has not considered these crucial questions, in

which case... ditto.

Either way, the academic needs of children are no longer as much a

priority for this organization as the political agenda of those who

engage in homosexual behavior.

Actually, that's not anything new for the teachers' union. The NEA

has been working hand-in-glove for years with aggressive promoters of

homosexual behavior. Indeed, former NEA president Bob Chase is a

member of the board of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educational

Network), and once defended NEA's force-feeding of the homosexual

agenda to children by warning that:

" Some critics want the public schools to be an agent of moral

doctrine, condemning children and adults when they are not in accord

with Biblical precepts. "

But if the NEA objects to teaching moral doctrines . how do they

justify teaching immoral doctrines? If they're against teaching

creationism, for example, for its spiritual implications, how can

they favor sex education classes that indoctrinate even very young

children with homosexual advocacy?

How can they bar prayers, ministers and Christian clubs from campus,

while organizing school assemblies, demonstrations, and classroom

visits featuring homosexual and transgender " role models? "

Clearly, the NEA has rejected its prima facie identity as the

representative of America's teachers, in favor of a new raison

d'etre: brainwashing schoolchildren into acceptance of, and even

indulgence in, homosexual behavior. For the union's leaders, there

will be no rest until families all over the country not only

acknowledge, but embrace and endorse the homosexual agenda.

It's as simple as A-B-C. What those pressing that agenda cannot win

at the ballot box, they will win in the minds of the next

generation... one vulnerable child at a time.

Alan Sears, a former federal prosecutor who held various posts in the

departments of Justice and Interior during the Reagan Administration,

is president and CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance

defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy,

training, funding, and litigation.

Please write the NEA and tell them if you disagree!

http://www.nea.org/aboutnea/contact.html

Lynn

August 27, 2006

And after reading the full article I can tell you he really doesn't know what he

is talking about because NO DUES MONEY goes to support a candidate. It is

illegal for that to happen. The dues monies go to promote public education as

well as to research those teaching programs that work and to help educate

teachers on the programs that DO work.