{"id":819,"date":"2008-10-16T10:47:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2008-10-16T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T18:47:01","slug":"what-does-prop-8-have-to-do-with-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/what-does-prop-8-have-to-do-with-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Prop 8 have to do with teachers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

California’s largest teacher’s union has given another $1 million to defeat a Nov. 4 ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The contribution recorded Tuesday makes the California Teachers Association the largest institutional donor to the No on 8 campaign. CTA also gave $250,000 in August to Equality for All, a coalition of gay advocacy and civil rights groups opposing Proposition 8.<\/p>\n

MercuryNews.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why would a teacher’s union support a proposition unless it has to do specifically with education?<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong. I understand teacher’s unions are political. I am part of a real estate professional organization, and they are political. In the same way that churches need to be political too.\u00c2\u00a0 These organizations have a right to make their voices heard. I don’t have a problem with that. If the CTS gives to defeat homeschooling initiatives, I can understand that. I don’t agree, but I can see their point.<\/p>\n

But supporting gay marriage???<\/p>\n

Who controls these teacher’s unions and how is it that they got to be so liberal? I can’t imagine that a majority of teachers are liberals<\/a>. I can’t imagine that teachers particularly want to advocate gay marriage in their curriculum.<\/p>\n

If I were a teacher, I would look into alternatives such as CTEN<\/a>. it looks like teachers do not have to contribute to the political fund<\/a> either. I hope teachers know that they have choices, and that they are not legally bound to join California Teacher’s Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California’s largest teacher’s union has given another $1 million to defeat a Nov. 4 ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. The contribution recorded Tuesday makes the California Teachers Association the largest institutional donor to the No on 8 campaign. CTA also gave $250,000 in August to Equality for All, a coalition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}