NEA Still Supports Gay 'Marriage'
Jolted by protests from state chapters and individual members, the nation's largest teachers' union has decided not to proclaim its support for homosexual "marriage" at its annual convention this week and next.
The National Education Assn. expects 9,000 members to attend its June 30-July 5 convention in Orlando, FL (see www.nea.org/).
Orginally the plan was to push through a resolution supporting "gay marriage" and recommending that the vast resources of America's public schools be used to stump for it. But that plan came unglued when the public got wind of it and protests poured in--as reported by sources both on the Right (Focus on the Family, see http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040990.cfm) and on the Left (People for the American Way, see http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.espx?oid=3459). And we wind up with this quote from NEA President Reg Weaver: "NEA has no position on same-sex marriages, and leadership is not seeking to establish such a position."
Heck, no--and Phillip Morris isn't trying to sell us cigarettes, either.
To mollify the homosexual activists who thought they had the resolution in the bag, the NEA posted a new statement on its website:
"The Association believes that legal rights and responsibilities with regard to medical decisions, taxes, inheritance, adoption [emphasis added], legal immigration, domestic partnerships and civil unions and/or marriage [emphasis added] belong to all these diverse groups and individuals" (quoted in http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/10040978.cfm).
Perhaps President Weaver needs reading comprehension lessons. In plain English, the public statement says that the NEA is in favor of homosexual "marriage." In fact, the statement is better than a resolution because there is no need to put it to a vote, and risk the possibility that the 9,000 delegates might vote it down.
The convention will hold an open hearing on all resolutions on Friday morning, June 30. Watch for sparks to fly.
We are reporting this not because we are surprised that the NEA supports the anti-Biblical demolition of the family, with or without a formal resolution, but because there are still so many misguided Christian parents out there who want to "engage the culture" by sending their kids to public school. This attempt to engage the culture is not to be taken seriously.
The NEA is committed to teaching America's children that the Bible is wrong--about sexual morality, the origin and meaning of life, personal and public ethics, and everything else. Sending children into NEA-dominated public schools to be "salt and light" therein is on a par with sending them into the Colosseum to evangelize the lions.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't want your children to be taught that sodomy, promiscuity, and abortion are moral and good, you have no alternative but to pull them out of the public schools. Christian education, either at home or in a solid Christian school, is the way to go.
The National Education Assn. expects 9,000 members to attend its June 30-July 5 convention in Orlando, FL (see www.nea.org/).
Orginally the plan was to push through a resolution supporting "gay marriage" and recommending that the vast resources of America's public schools be used to stump for it. But that plan came unglued when the public got wind of it and protests poured in--as reported by sources both on the Right (Focus on the Family, see http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0040990.cfm) and on the Left (People for the American Way, see http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.espx?oid=3459). And we wind up with this quote from NEA President Reg Weaver: "NEA has no position on same-sex marriages, and leadership is not seeking to establish such a position."
Heck, no--and Phillip Morris isn't trying to sell us cigarettes, either.
To mollify the homosexual activists who thought they had the resolution in the bag, the NEA posted a new statement on its website:
"The Association believes that legal rights and responsibilities with regard to medical decisions, taxes, inheritance, adoption [emphasis added], legal immigration, domestic partnerships and civil unions and/or marriage [emphasis added] belong to all these diverse groups and individuals" (quoted in http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/10040978.cfm).
Perhaps President Weaver needs reading comprehension lessons. In plain English, the public statement says that the NEA is in favor of homosexual "marriage." In fact, the statement is better than a resolution because there is no need to put it to a vote, and risk the possibility that the 9,000 delegates might vote it down.
The convention will hold an open hearing on all resolutions on Friday morning, June 30. Watch for sparks to fly.
We are reporting this not because we are surprised that the NEA supports the anti-Biblical demolition of the family, with or without a formal resolution, but because there are still so many misguided Christian parents out there who want to "engage the culture" by sending their kids to public school. This attempt to engage the culture is not to be taken seriously.
The NEA is committed to teaching America's children that the Bible is wrong--about sexual morality, the origin and meaning of life, personal and public ethics, and everything else. Sending children into NEA-dominated public schools to be "salt and light" therein is on a par with sending them into the Colosseum to evangelize the lions.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't want your children to be taught that sodomy, promiscuity, and abortion are moral and good, you have no alternative but to pull them out of the public schools. Christian education, either at home or in a solid Christian school, is the way to go.
