PO'd! email from school's PTO president

[Lavendyr_WillowStorm]

Well I am probably about to jump into a hornet's nest but I can't be silent. I was going over my emails and realized I missed this one from my daughter's school PTO president. I just recently became a board member (non-officer) and as I have said before, we live in a typical bible belt rural town. As most know, I am straight (this is my first post in this forum even) but I have had gay friends over the years and I have a lesbian couple in the family who are married through a civil union so when I got this heavily opinionated letter I decided to look for the truth. Well I found it and am trying to decide what to say in a reply to all email. Here is what I rec'd (the whole thing is a cut and paste FWD:

June 19, 2006

National Education Association Set to Endorse Homosexual Marriage

Teacher's union begins plans to promote homosexual marriage in public schools

Dear Cindy,


The National Education Association is set to endorse homosexual marriage at their convention coming up in Orlando June 29 through July 6.

The new NEA proposal essentially says schools should support and actively promote homosexual marriage and other forms of marriage (two men and one woman, three women, two women and three men, etc.) in their local schools.

The new proposal, expected to pass overwhelmingly, is found under the B-8 Diversity paragraph:


The Association... believes in the importance of observances, programs and curricula that accurately portray and recognize the roles, contributions, cultures, and history of these diverse groups and individuals.


The Association believes that legal rights and responsibilities with regard to medical decisions, taxes, inheritance, adoption, legal immigration, domestic partnerships, and civil unions and/or marriage belong to all these diverse groups and individuals.

Translated, that means the NEA will promote homosexual marriage in every avenue they have available, including textbooks, to all children at all age levels and without the permission or knowledge of parents. Their plans will include every public school in America.


Take Action


First, please forward this to all parents with children in public schools. They need to be aware of the plans the NEA has to indoctrinate their children with their pro-homosexual, homosexual marriage agenda.


Click here to send your email to your NEA state affiliate.


Please forward this to public school teachers you know so they can be aware of the NEA's plans. In fact, their membership dues will be used to help implement the new NEA plan.

AFA encourages teachers who do not approve of their dues going to the NEA to find an alternative teacher's group to help them retain their benefits. Teachers might want to give the CEAI home page a look http://www.ceai.org/index.htm or find another alternative in their state.





If you think our efforts are worthy, would you please support us with a small gift? Thank you for caring enough to get involved.

Sincerely,



Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association




Well it turns out that this extremely narrow minded individual (Wildmon) is known for his anti-semitism and homophobia. There is a B-8 diversity proposal but what is left out is that it has been in place for over a DECADE and ammended again in 2002.

http://www2.nea.org/he/resolutions/heres-B8.html

What hyperbole to the extreme to make the leap that the proposal is saying that the NEA is going to be promoting marriage between 'two guys and three women'! If our new PTO president is going to be forwarding emails I would hope they would be more factual and less biased. UGH....I don't know if I'm going to make it a year on this board but I feel that I may be the only voice of diversity. I'll let you know what fallout occurs!

[Artemis_NYC]

Lavendyr_WillowStorm wrote:
the B-8 Diversity paragraph:

The Association... believes in the importance of observances, programs and curricula that accurately portray and recognize the roles, contributions, cultures, and history of these diverse groups and individuals.

Well naturally, I interpreted that to read forcing the homosexual way upon innocent children. And not only same-sex marriage, but marriage between two men and three women, marriage between brother and sister, and marriage between a person and a goat. Of course. I mean, really, it's all downhill from there. Once you let two people with the same anatomy who love each other get married, you open the gateway for all kinds of immoral and debaucherous behavior.

Oh wait, the paragraph actually says nothing of the sort...upon closer inspection...all it seems to say is that when an educator does a lesson on influential doctors/scientists/authors, and their knowledge includes a gay influential doctor/scientist/author, they might think to include that figure in their lesson. Or that when discussion the various liberation movements and civil rights actions in the tumultuous 1960's and '70's, they might remember to include the Stonewall riots, etc.

Well, it was an honest mistake. I mean, really, that's almost the same thing.

(((gigantic sigh))) It's an old song, Lavendyr, and I know the tune well...

Do keep us posted.