Posted on 08/12/2003 11:27:08 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
Teachers' union rebuffs efforts to change the message given to the nation's students about homosexuality.
A rigid homosexual bias within the leadership of the National Education Association (NEA) is clearly evident as the huge teachers' union resists any move to provide information that same-sex attraction can be changed.
Sissy Jochmann, a spokeswoman for the Conservative Educators Caucus, asked this year's NEA delegates to consider helping kids who experience same-sex attraction but don't like those feelings. She spoke to the full convention.
"When I read my speech, you could not believe the thunderous roar of people not even wanting to consider it," Jochmann said. "There might have been a hundred people out of 9,400, or so, delegates that wanted to debate it."
Regina Griggs, a spokeswoman for Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (P-FOX), said former homosexuals were there, too.
"There were ex-gays who tried to speak on the floor, who had our message, and were denied," Griggs said.
The plea was for the NEA to promote a message of hope for troubled students. Dr. Warren Throckmorton — a psychologist and counselor at Grove City College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pa.— said students who wonder about their sexuality need information.
"They need to know that . . . what they experience in adolescence does not obligate them to a lifelong identity," Throckmorton said.
Jochmann said she thinks the NEA is run by liberal activists because conservative teachers have let it happen.
"(The) number one blame has to be on us — conservative (and) moderate teachers in the NEA who are sitting back, letting the NEA collect our dues, and we're doing nothing," she said.
Jochmann said it makes no sense for those teachers to pay dues and quietly accept the NEA's radically liberal social agenda.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To understand the NEA's agenda better, we suggest the following resource: "Grading the NEA," by Perry L. Glanzer, Ph.D. and Travis R. Pardo.
In addition, for the latest news from the world of education, please see the Focus on Education Web site.
Perhaps the NEA needs to do some reading from the following sites that offer help to homosexuals:
Thanks for linking to this important book. I read it a few years ago, and again recently when the new edition came out. Each time I couldn't sleep, just read until I finished it. Anyone who has any concern about where the homosexual agenda is going should read this book.
An interesting side note: Taoist philosophy and Ayurveda (ancient medical system of India) both state that same sex acts promote and cause mental imbalance, even psychosis, violence, and aggression, as well as physcial disease.
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