NEA Homosexuality Stance Protested by Christian Groups

                                                                                                                                                                       Vol. IX, No. 1, January 1996

A recent National Education Association resolution advocating teaching acceptance for homosexuality and lesbianism - and the "celebration of a Lesbian and Gay History Month" - is drawing fire from Christian groups across the country. A Southern Baptist association in eastern Tennessee recently passed a resolution promising to pray for teachers who oppose the NEA's action, while Concerned Women for America reports a groundswell of outrage from its members. Richard Land, executive director of the SBC Christian Life Commission, said the resolution on "Sexual Orientation Education" is a graphic demonstration of the NEA's left-wing social agenda. He said, "The NEA represents radical special interests who want to hijack American public education and use it to brainwash the nation's children with their own outlandish, anti-biblical values. Thankfully, the NEA does not represent the values of the vast majority of our nation's public school teachers. In fact, they exploit teachers by taking their dues and good names and using them to finance their own gay-rights, radical social agenda." [BP]

 [Editorial Comment: It is high time for all Christian public school teachers to refuse to pay dues to the NEA. It is also high time for elected officials to eject the NEA from any role in public education. TCP]