Posted on 07/06/2006 5:01:16 PM PDT by DBeers
(AgapePress) - The National Education Association (NEA) has voted overwhelmingly to endorse legal civil unions and same-sex "marriages."
The president of the Alabama Education Association had asked that the resolution supporting legal homosexual unions be referred back to the Resolutions Committee. The NEA Resolutions Committee earlier had deleted a controversial amendment to its "Diversity" policy (known as B-8), which would have comprehensively endorsed same-sex marriage. Consequently, the Alabama delegate's request would have left the union without a homosexual marriage resolution for the upcoming school year. But NEA delegates voted not to refer the resolution, and then voted to accept the resolution.
The approved resolution affects Section B-10 of the NEA handbook ("Racism, Sexism, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identification Discrimination"), in which the union states its belief that discrimination based on such factors as "... race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification ...." must be eliminated. The amendment to B-10 (in bold below) reads:
"The Association also believes that these factors should not affect the legal rights and obligations of the partners in a legally-recognized domestic partnership, civil union, or marriage in regard to matters involving the other partner, such as medical decisions, taxes, inheritance, adoption, and immigration."
California teacher Jeralee Smith, past chairman of the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus, says she is considering leaving the union. "People who share our values, which is traditional family and a few other things, can have no integrity unless they are either active on the inside to try and change things, or they leave the union and take their money out of the union's hands," says Smith.
Smith acknowledges that Christian members of the NEA are faced with a decision. "I just think it's time for Christians to really pray about their relationship to the union and do some real soul-searching on their loyalty," she says. And if they find their loyalty is still with the union, Smith suggests they ask themselves "just how much loyalty does the union deserve at this point?"
Smith says she is outraged the NEA is pushing for "gay," lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues to be required content for teacher credentialing. The union's Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identification issued a report stating "that the NEA advocate for the inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues in the 'National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education' teacher education program review process."
The powerful teachers union, after heated debate, also decided to replace the word "tolerance" with the word "acceptance" in NEA policies.
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The NEA is a lefty outfit who indoctrinates its teachers who then are told to indoctrinate the students on fave social, cultural, economic issues that the NEA endorses. Take a look over the last 35 years and see what the meetings have endorsed. It will really frighten you. However, the MSM never reports on those issues and most parents are ignorant of just what is parlayed into curriculum on a state and local level. The NEA is the most powerful union in America and a stalward of the Dems. Without them they would be a real minority party in elective positions.
The NEA is a lefty outfit who indoctrinates its teachers who then are told to indoctrinate the students on fave social, cultural, economic issues that the NEA endorses. Take a look over the last 35 years and see what the meetings have endorsed. It will really frighten you. However, the MSM never reports on those issues and most parents are ignorant of just what is parlayed into curriculum on a state and local level. The NEA is the most powerful union in America and a stalward of the Dems. Without them they would be a real minority party in elective positions.
If anyone thinks that public schools are not going to harm their kids, they need their heads examined.
Sadly, this doesn't surprise me one bit. If one watches what is going on in Lexington MA, they know what is to come of public education all over the country, unless it is stopped.
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The way to do that is to pull the plug. Government schools need students and money. Starve them of both and then lobby like crazy for tax credits and vouchers.
The NEA is a New World Order organization that is responsible for much of the degradation of the public schools over the past several decades.
When I graduated from a "flyover country" public high school, many of us went on to the very best universities, and were very happy with the great education that we had received. Now, even in my own hometown, things have gone from bad to worse. If they would get rid of the "politically correct" and "diversity" indoctrination (and totally ABANDON the advocacy of perversion) and go back to concentrating on education, it would be a lot better for our children and our country.
"Shouldn't the NEA be interested in education laws?"
NEA...BWA HA HA HA HA HA ...interested...in... BWA HA HA HA HA HA ...education... BWA HA HA HA HA HA ...stop it, yer killing me...ROFLMAO!
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Really appalling. Home or religious schooling is the only way to go now.
Yes they do!
The LEFT just keeps going further and further LEFT every day.
This might just push a few more moderate teachers, principles and retired critters over to our side.
Ha! That cartoon speaks the truth.
NEA Agenda is Frightening to Parents
by Phyllis Schlafly, July 26, 2006
Parents who wonder why the public schools teach so many things parents don't approve of need look no further than the official policies of the nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA). Meeting in Orlando this year in annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend, the NEA adopted a long series of left-liberal resolutions.
Word leaked out several weeks ahead of time that the convention was ready to take the plunge and endorse same-sex marriage. That would be no surprise, since the NEA usually passes at least a dozen resolutions promoting the gay rights agenda.
Apparently the advance negative publicity had a salutary effect and, although already circulated, the same-sex resolution did not come to the floor for action. A compromise resolution, however, was easily adopted as part of resolution B-10 on Racism, Sexism, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identification Discrimination.
It reads as follows: "The Association also believes that these factors should not affect the legal rights and obligations of the partners in a legally recognized domestic partnership, civil union, or marriage in regard to matters involving the other partner, such as medical decisions, taxes, inheritance, adoption, and immigration." "Factors" refers to "race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, disability, ethnicity, immigration status, occupation, and religion."
Other NEA resolutions promote the gay rights agenda in public school curricula by demanding funds to alleviate "sexual orientation discrimination," to use multicultural education to reduce "homophobia," and even to put "diversity-based curricula" and "bias-free screening devices in early childhood education." Another resolution demands that schools hire "a diverse teaching staff."
But the NEA certainly doesn't believe in diversity when it comes to schools! The NEA is positively paranoid about any kind of competition, passing resolutions against voucher plans, tuition tax credits, parental option or choice plans, sectarian schools, for-profit schools, distance learning, and homeschooling.
The NEA beefed up its anti-homeschool resolutions this year by demanding that homeschooled students "meet all state curricular requirements," and that they not be permitted to participate in any public school extra-curricular activities. The NEA even opposes renting or selling empty public school buildings to any non-public school.
NEA resolutions again endorse the principal goals of the feminist agenda, including abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, Comparable Worth, nonsexist language, and a federally funded women's commission to pursue feminist goals at taxpayers' expense. The NEA also supports "community-operated, school-based family planning clinics that will provide intensive counseling," which is a thinly veiled welcome to Planned Parenthood to put its clinics in the schools.
The NEA Women's Caucus is taking on a battle to oppose the Bush Administration's modest change in the enforcement of Title IX, which allows colleges to survey women about their interest in sports. The NEA feminists don't want surveys because they know that surveys will confirm that fewer women are interested in playing competitive college sports than men, and the survey results would interfere with their ruthless abolition of hundreds of men's athletic teams.
The NEA is determined to get control of children at the earliest possible age. One resolution calls for public school programs for children "from birth through age eight," another calls for pre-kindergarten for "all three- and four-year-old children," and still another demands "mandatory kindergarten with compulsory attendance."
The anti-parent animus of the NEA is apparent in its insistence that the public schools be in the driver's seat about the teaching of sex. Claiming that every child has the right to "freely available information and knowledge about sexuality," the NEA demands the right to teach children about diversity of sexual orientation and gender identification, incest, and homophobia.
The NEA is a big supporter of every sort of globalism and international commitment. NEA resolutions endorse global education, multicultural education, the United Nations, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the globalist version of environmental education, and opposition to English as our official language.
Other NEA resolutions that have nothing to do with education include calling for national health care and statehood for the District of Columbia. To nobody's surprise, the NEA opposes any requirement that a school schedule a moment of silence.
After reading the NEA resolutions and policies, parents should reflect on last year's decision of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Fields v. Palmdale School District. The court ruled that parents' fundamental right to control the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door," and that a public school has the right to provide its students with "whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise."
Further Reading: NEACourts Hit Parents With Triple Whammy, 12-21-05
Activist Court Protects Mental Screening Of Kids, 11-23-06
Judicial Supremacists Lash Out At Parents, 11-16-05
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