Alabama Lawmaker: Teachers Should Divest From NEA's Liberal Agenda
by Jim Brown
June 30, 2006
(AgapePress) - - An Alabama lawmaker is encouraging members of the National Education Association in his state to consider leaving the union because of its liberal political activism. Meanwhile, delegates at the NEA's 2006 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, are preparing to vote on a resolution endorsing same-sex "marriage."
Alabama State Representative Gerald Allen, who sponsored the state's constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage, is denouncing the NEA proposal to amend the organization's diversity policy to endorse homosexual marriage. He has urged Alabama's 300 NEA delegates to either boycott the convention or vote against the resolution.
Allen says education leaders, not only in Alabama but across the U.S., "must take a stand and say [to the NEA leadership], 'If you're going to go in this direction and try to indoctrinate our children with this type of materials, then we're going to maybe form our own association.' That's one of the things I think needs to be looked at."
In fact, the state lawmaker says conservative teachers who have or are considering NEA membership should start looking for alternatives to that powerful union. "You've got this liberal agenda, with the NEA trying their very best to get the heart and souls and minds of our children and to indoctrinate them," he states.
Allen believes homosexual activists within the NEA have a long-term plan in mind for America's school children after they have been thoroughly indoctrinated with pro-homosexual ideas. "Once they grow up and become adults and policymakers themselves, then certainly they'll sponsor constitutional amendments and turn things around," he says.
The Alabama legislator suggests that those pushing pro-homosexual policy in the National Education Association want the next generation schooled in their ideology, because those children are society's future leaders and shapers, and these activists know it. "That's exactly what is on their minds," Allen says.
The NEA recently modified its proposal supporting homosexual marriage to focus on the seven states where civil unions or homosexual "marriages" are legal. However, recent reports affirm that both the original and the modified resolutions have been introduced for the delegates' consideration.
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Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
