NEA Begins To Rev Up Its Pro-Gay Machinery
[July 12th] - The National Education Association has taken another step to create a stronger association with the Gay & Lesbian community. Representatives of the local and regional associations voted this past weekend to create a new and more sophisticated strategy to combat what they perceive as a "attacks" against NEA policies that provide a safe and friendly environment for Gays and Lesbians within America's schools. The "Washington Times" quotes the chairman of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus of the NEA, who asserted that "extremist groups are using increasingly sophisticated and aggressive tactics to attack school districts with affirming GLBT policies, curriculum, and practices." As is usually the case, when a conservative member of the meeting rose and and reminded the caucus that the NEA continues to ignore groups who represent "ex-gays," that being gay is not in and of itself a rigid lifestyle, the member was booed from the floor for several minutes before NEA President Reg Weaver brought the discussion to a close. A member of the meeting said that the NEA believes that members who speak out against the NEA's pro-homosexual ideology are "plants" from the religious right.
No. They are parents and concerned teachers who don't want sexual choice politicized in the school system.
The NEA does not represent the vast majority of American families and many of its teachers. They represent the far left of the Democratic party, a group whose goal is to change the value system of America from within the schools. How do I know this? Because I have been a member of the NEA for three years.
I am a student at Idaho State University. I will begin my teaching career in a year or so. I have joined the IEA/NEA to see if my concerns about the union were correct. I was Vice President of the student program, and became President last year. Much of what I heard at the Presidents meetings seemed like it came right out of the Democratic handbook. Don't get me wrong, the people were wonderful; each and every one of them were top notch teachers. But even in Idaho, the long arm of the NEA reached out and touched a few on the left who made if difficult to be a moderate or conservative and still remain part of the union. There are just so many jokes about George Bush's intelligence that a person can take. There are just so many standing ovations for John Kerry that one can listen to. I respect the right of anyone to support any candidate, but not once did a conservative in these meetings feel comfortable saying something positive about the President or his party.
The people the NEA are going to fight regarding it's pro-Gay & Lesbian stand are the parents of the children they are entrusted to teach. We are the "radical element" that they are preparing to "go to war" with. In 1972, a socialite lamented in a post election party, "How could Nixon have been re-elected. I don't know a soul who voted for him." Nixon Won 49 of the 50 states. This is the problem with the NEA. They don't "know" any conservatives and they don't care to. The NRA has the same problem. When you don't come in contact with those who disagree, you believe that those who disagree with your views are irrelevant and radical.
I can live with the Gay & Lesbian lifestyle being taught in my local schools as long as both sides of the story are being discussed, but the NEA simply won't have any of that. And so, another layer of the union has been peeled away because more and more teachers don't feel comfortable supporting their singularly monolithic views. I am now a member of a professional teacher's organization, the NWPE based in Washington State.
One day, the president of the NEA is going to have a meeting and nobody will come. The NEA does many good things; I just hope they stick to teaching the children and not indoctrinating them.
