Ask the People of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Jul 30th, 2008 by Randy Toman
Did anybody see Phyllis Schlafly’s article in “Human Events” July 28, 2008 front page “NEA Delegates Adopted Radical Agenda”?
The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA) attracted 9,000 delegates to its annual convention in Washington, D.C. over the 4th of July weekend.
Let me skip most of the evilness proposed by the NEA and just insert these couple of short paragraphs.
“ The NEA fiercely opposes any competition for public schools, such as vouchers, tuition tax credits, parental option plans, or public support of any kind to non-public schools. The NEA strongly opposes designating English as our official language even though such a designation is supported by more than 80% of Americans.”
“The influence of the gay lobby is pervasive in dozens of NEA resolutions adopted by 2008 convention delegates. Diversity is the code word used for pro-gay indoctrination in the classroom.”
“The NEA puts “domestic partnerships, civil unions, and marriage” on an equal footing.”
“The NEA wants public schools to take over the physical and mental care of students through school clinics that provide services, diagnosis, treatment, family-planning counseling, and access to birth control methods “with instruction in their use.”
We had a couple of weeks ago here in the Lehigh Valley, Pa. the “East Penn School Board” vote to raise school taxes. Tax that sucks the life-blood out of the poor person on fixed income. So here is a problem that is much more pervasive in nature and what should we think and/or do about it.
Nobody would have dared to bring any of these issues up on the floor at the school board meeting with 400+/- in attendance. And don’t tell me these various issue were not in the final stages of planning for presentation at the convention. And 4-6 weeks after the vote this same school district sent people (or was represented some how) to this convention of the NEA.
Why don’t those same folks that supported the tax hike ask those delegates what happen at the convention? Making sure you ask and get their position with regards to voting. Is what Ms. Schlafly’s wrote truly what was presented, pushed and voted on. And make sure you ask what positions carried the day and is now part of NEA policy. Last, ask the delegates for documentation of the NEA new policy position effective July 4th weekend.
Somebody had better wake-up. The fact that we have a tax and spent mentality on the school board may not be the bigger of the problems and somebody on the school board should start questioning the NEA policies. Why should I be concerned about that because higher taxes don’t really matter in a corrupt society, does it, ask the people of Sodom and Gomorrah?