Does the NEA support same-sex marriage?
In early July, OneNewsNow was contacted by the Conservative Educators Caucus, an organization within the National Education Association (NEA) made up of conservative teachers. They claimed that the NEA threw their full support behind the homosexual marriage during their annual meeting in California. Concerned teachers within the NEA contacted their local officials, who denied any such support. However, Jeralee Smith of the Conservative Educators Caucus says those officials are playing "liberal word games." She directs concerned teachers to the NEA's website, which has posted the resolution. According to resolutions B-13 and I-13, the NEA opposes the "discriminatory treatment of same-sex couples" and it believes that "such couples should have the same legal rights and benefits as similarly-situated heterosexual couples." Furthermore the resolution states that the NEA will support affiliates that seek to "enact state legislation that guarantees to same-sex couples the right to enter into a legally recognized relationship…" And that the "NEA will support its affiliates in opposing state constitutional and/or statutory provisions that could have the effect of prohibiting the state and its political subdivisions from providing the same rights and benefits to same-sex couples…"
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