A New Jersey pro-family leader is crediting – at least in part – a recent Supreme Court decision for lower attendance than usual at this year's annual meeting of the National Education Association.

The largest union in America met in Minneapolis earlier this month, and attendance was down sharply, in part because of the high court's decision one month ago banning mandatory union fees. While union leaders called the 5-4 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME "a setback" for working families, an attorney for Janus pointed out that "the only thing that's changed is that workers will now have a choice – and that means unions will have to earn workers' support instead of taking it for granted."

The NEA boasts a membership of three million. According to The Center for Garden State Families, as many as 11,000 delegates had attended past annual meetings, but this year less than 6,200 were present. The Center's president and executive director, Greg Quinlan, argues that attendance has steadily declined from year to year because of the NEA's extreme views.

"People who I know, even here in New Jersey, do not feel that the union represents them or ... the cause of educating children," he tells OneNewsNow. "The union has become an arm of the leftist, socialist agenda – particularly the Democratic Party – and they no longer feel they can support it."

The NEA, he says, is no longer about improving education and teaching but strictly about radical politics. "... It's clear by the actions of the union and its support of these protests and organizations of these protests [that] it's all about the politics and clearly nothing to do with education," he adds.

For example, Quinlan's group states that "like so many socialist-based organizations, the NEA is obsessed with sexual identity rights" – and points out that the union recently honored homosexual activist Chris Sgro for being "a champion for LGBTQ advocacy."

One of the more radical new business items (NBIs) passed in Minneapolis calls for promotion of the "Black Lives Matter Week of Action" during Black History month next year. Other NBIs addressed "gender identity and expression," resources for LGBTQ youth, and refusal of services to same-sex couples and/or LGBTQ individuals.