News from Agape Press: "labama 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."