Teachers union dues back gay marriage, ACORN
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial noted that the National Education Association’s California chapter has contributed more than one-third of all money raised by opponents of that state’s proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as exclusively the domain of man-woman couples.
The high school dropout rate is 1-in-4 in California and 1-in-3 in the Los Angeles public school system … so you might think the California Teachers Association would have other priorities (than gay marriage).
Yet last week the union donated $1 million to the “No on Proposition 8” campaign.
“What does this have to do with education?” said Randy Peart, a public school teacher in San Juan. “Why not put that money into classrooms, into making a better place for these kids.” (more…)