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NEA 'Gay Axis' Becomes Evident
Family Issues in Policy and Culture ^ | August 11, 2003 | Terry Phillips

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: educationnews; exgays; homosexualagenda; nea; pfox; prisoners; teachers; unions
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1 posted on 08/12/2003 11:27:08 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: EdReform
Point of View Radio Talk Show with Marlin Maddoux - Broadcast for Monday, August 11, 2003 featured an interview of, Linda Harvey Mission America, which has the project Choice4Truth that you posted 08/11/2003.
2 posted on 08/12/2003 11:28:36 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
I don't know about anyone else (actually I do) but I am sure getting tired of hearing about homosexuals.
3 posted on 08/12/2003 11:28:39 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: johniegrad
I am sure getting tired of hearing about homosexuals.

Ya, Bill Parcells is a jerk.

4 posted on 08/12/2003 11:30:21 AM PDT by StatesEnemy
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5 posted on 08/12/2003 11:32:29 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: johniegrad
They are going to be IN YOUR FACE for a very long time.
6 posted on 08/12/2003 11:33:32 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS; scripter
Bump & Ping

read later...



Choice4Truth

7 posted on 08/12/2003 11:33:36 AM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
the idea that the public school system can be reformed or improved is a phallacy. The death grip of the NEA will continue to degrade the system for decades.

The only answer is private schooling and home schooling.

All efforts should now be on weakening the NEA and restricting the absurd amount of taxpayer money that schools receive and the NEA extorts to further their self serving sick agenda.
8 posted on 08/12/2003 11:42:33 AM PDT by At _War_With_Liberals (All Dems is Pimps and Ho's)
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To: StatesEnemy
"I am sure getting tired of hearing about homosexuals"

Try counting, for 1 day (when you are lurking about the media and TV), the number of pro gay agenda references you hear, read, and see.

I averaged a count of 26 in 3 days recently...

(Go GIANTS)
9 posted on 08/12/2003 11:46:39 AM PDT by At _War_With_Liberals (All Dems is Pimps and Ho's)
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
Homosexuality:

Homosexuality is deviant sexual behavior and a mental illness.

Homosexuals: 1) subject their body parts to uses nature did not intend, such activities often presenting immediate risk to the participants; 2) are prone to greater suicide, depression and other mental disorders and deficiencies than the heterosexual population at large; 3) are prone to far greater sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, than the (normal) heterosexual population; 4) molest young people (pedophilia) at a far greater rate than heterosexuals; 5) engage in degrading sexual promiscuity, oftentimes engaging in risky sex with many partners during the same event; 6) are engaged in aggressive and widespread efforts to indoctrinate our children by introducing the homosexual lifestyle using public schools as the primary indoctrination “vehicle” and likewise, through the movie/music/TV industry, with the dual goals of gaining school-age acceptance of homosexuality and encouraging sexual activity among children, especially same-sex experimentation; 7) view most everything through a mindset heavily biased in favor of the homosexual lifestyle and culture, which renders them mostly useless when asked to opine on matters that normal heterosexuals better resolve.

The mental deficiencies described herein applying to homosexuals shall not be confused with the deficiencies associated with the left wing democrat/socialist/marxist/ feminist/environmentalist minds, etc., which have their own distinct set of mental disorders.

This doesn't even touch on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality.

10 posted on 08/12/2003 11:49:37 AM PDT by Imagine
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To: At _War_With_Liberals

the idea that the public school system can be reformed or improved is a phallacy.

Some objections…:

Freedom of Education | Separation of School & State

1. Government school is the essential force for social cohesion. It cannot happen any other way. A bureaucratized public order is our defense against chaos and anarchy.
2. The socialization of children in groups monitored by state agents is essential; without this, children cannot learn to get along with others in a pluralistic society.
3. Children from different backgrounds and from families with different beliefs must be mixed together. Robert Frost was wrong when he maintained "good fences make good neighbors."
4. The certifiable expertise of official schoolteachers is superior to that of lay people including parents. The protection of children from the uncertified is a compelling public concern.
5. Coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power. Compelling children to assemble in mandated groups for mandated intervals with mandated texts and overseers does not interfere with academic learning.
6. Children will inevitably grow apart from their parents in beliefs as they grow older and this process must be supported and encouraged. The best way to do this is by diluting parental influence and discouraging the children's attitudes that their own parents are sovereign in either mind or morality.
7. The world is full of crazy parents who will ruin their children. An overriding concern of schooling is to protect children from bad parenting.
8. It is not appropriate for any family to unduly concern itself with the education of its own children, but it may expend unlimited effort on behalf of the general education of everyone.
9. The State has the predominant responsibility for training, morals, and beliefs. Children schooled outside government scrutiny frequently become anti-social and poverty stricken.

….are refuted by Books or common sense.

11 posted on 08/12/2003 11:49:56 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
"We're HERE, we're QUEER, and we're in your FAAAAAAACE!"

--Rush NOW excerpt...
12 posted on 08/12/2003 11:50:24 AM PDT by At _War_With_Liberals (All Dems is Pimps and Ho's)
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
Becomes evident?

Consider the search link below and the post from February, 2002, that alarmed me greatly!

GLSEN

From Frebruary, 2002 -- NEA And GLSEN Seek To Stifle Free Speech

13 posted on 08/12/2003 11:52:46 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Imagine

This doesn't even touch on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality.

Indeed, the Torah reserves its most intense condemnation for homosexuality: "to'eva" - abomination... Homosexuality: A Political Mask For Promiscuity: A Psychiatrist Reviews The Data

14 posted on 08/12/2003 11:53:54 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
Why go through all that trouble? (i.e. student "opt out letter") the public scrools are NOT going to stop the homo promotions. Just take them out and put them in Private School....
easy
What? that shiny new car in your driveway is more important than your children?? come on....
15 posted on 08/12/2003 11:55:55 AM PDT by Capt.YankeeMike (get outta my pocket, outta my car, and outta the schools)
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To: Salvation
Similar to what they did in Nazi Germany The PinkSwastika 4th Edition - Final
16 posted on 08/12/2003 11:56:58 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
That's some list. The MO of the state.
17 posted on 08/12/2003 11:58:07 AM PDT by At _War_With_Liberals (All Dems is Pimps and Ho's)
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
"(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.

But it has been moving steadily Leftward for half a century. At this point, the Left is in virtually total control.

Still, it is never too late for Conservatives to fight back. If nothing else, they can discredit the insane pronouncements that come from the National leadership, which has long been considered the strongest Leftwing lobby in Washington.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

18 posted on 08/12/2003 11:59:25 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Capt.YankeeMike

Just take them out and put them in Private School....

A Christian Exodus from Government Schools?

19 posted on 08/12/2003 12:00:47 PM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: At _War_With_Liberals; Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS; *Education News
"All efforts should now be on weakening the NEA and restricting the absurd amount of taxpayer money that schools receive and the NEA extorts to further their self serving sick agenda."


Teachers who want to belong to a Professional Education Association should consider joining the Association of American Educators.




Let your colleagues know that they are entitled to receive a refund on the part of their NEA dues that is being used for political activity. Many teachers believe that they must join the NEA to get liability insurance -- The AAE offers excellent Liability Insurance.



Now is the time to help bust the NEA


HOPE FOR AMERICA: Growing Non-Union Teacher Associations Provide Alternatives to NEA and AFT

20 posted on 08/12/2003 12:01:58 PM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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