Updated December 14, 2009
Obama's Safe Schools Czar Tied to Lewd Readings for 7th Graders
By Maxim Lott
Obama adviser Kevin Jennings is under fresh attack after it was
revealed that the pro-gay group he formerly headed recommends books
his critics say are pornographic.
Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings
President Obama's "Safe Schools Czar," already a target of social
conservatives for his past drug abuse and what they say is his
promotion of homosexuality in schools, is under fresh attack after it
was revealed that the pro-gay group he formerly headed recommends
books his critics say are pornographic.
The group under fire is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
Network (GLSEN), which Kevin Jennings, now the assistant deputy
secretary for safe and drug-free schools in the Department of
Education, founded and ran from 1990 to 2008.
GLSEN says it works to create a welcoming atmosphere for homosexual
students in schools, and that effort includes recommending books for
students of all ages.
But critics say many of the books, particularly some that are targeted
for children between Grades 7 to 12, are inappropriately explicit. A
full list is available at the blog Gateway Pundit, which has published
dozens of controversial passages from the books.
One recommended book is titled "Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers
Recall Seventh Grade." On pages 43 through 45, writer Justin Chin
tells of how as a 13-year-old, he went along with "near-rapes" by
older men, but "really did enjoy those sexual encounters." Chin also
recounts each sexual action he performed with an "ugly f*** of a man"
he met on a bus.
In another book, "Passages of Pride," the author writes about a
15-year-old boy's relationship with a much older man.
"Near the end of summer, just before starting his sophomore year in
high school, Dan picked up a weekly Twin Cities newspaper. Scanning
the classifieds, he came upon an ad for a "Man-2-Man" massage. Home
alone one day, he called the telephone number listed in the ad and set
up an appointment to meet a man named Tom.... Even though Tom was
older, almost twice Dan's age, Dan felt unthreatened by him. Dan
admits Tom was a 'troll' in every sense of the word -- an older
closeted gay man seeking sex with a man much younger. But Dan says he
was not intimidated by the discrepancy in their ages. 'He kind of had
me in a corner in that he knew I didn't have access to anything I
wanted.' says Dan. 'But everything was consensual.'"
On Page 13 of a third book, "Reflections of a Rock Lobster," the
author recounts his sexual encounters in first grade.
"By first grade I was sexually active with many friends. In fact, a
small group of us regularly met in the grammar school lavatory to
perform fellatio on one another. A typical week's schedule would be
Aaron and Michael on Monday during lunch; Michael and Johnny on
Tuesday after school; Fred and Timmy at noon Wednesday; Aaron and
Timmy after school on Thursday. None of us ever got caught, but we
never worried about it anyway."
"Reflections of a Rock Lobster" was recommended in 1995, the year
Jennings became GLSEN's first executive director; "Passages of Pride"
made the list in 1997 and "Queer 13" in 1999. Those are just three out
of over 100 books that GLSEN has recommended for students in grades
7-12 since 1990, and all three remain on GLSEN's recommended reading
list.
Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, says the
content of the books is shocking, and it raises concerns about
Jennings' judgment.
"The graphic sexual content of these books is so extreme that I think
any average parent or citizen, regardless of how they feel about
homosexuality, would be shocked at these books being recommended to
young people," Sprigg said.
GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard defended her group's
recommendations, telling FoxNews.com in a written statement:
"Some of the books that might be used with young adult audiences
contain mature content, as is true of many memoirs and works of
literature. Because of the presence of mature content in some of the
works, GLSEN provides very clear guidelines throughout, recommending
that adults review each book to make sure the book is suitable."
Those guidelines, listed on each book recommendation page, read: "All
BookLink items are reviewed by GLSEN staff for quality and
appropriateness of content. However, some titles for adolescent
readers contain mature themes. We recommend that adults selecting
books for youth review content for suitability."
But critics say the guidelines themselves are damning, because they
confirm that GLSEN staff have checked the books for appropriateness.
And Jennings, they point out, was in charge at the time.
"It's like Jennings just doesn't realize he's working with kids
here.... You need a totally different set of rules when you're working
with kids," said Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth
About Homosexuality.
LaBarbera said the books should be seen in light of other recent
controversies surrounding Jennings.
In September it came out that, when he was a teacher in Massachusetts,
Jennings did not report an incident in which a 16-year-old boy told
him that he was having sexual relations with an older man he met in a
bus station bathroom. After that, 53 Republican members of the House
publicly called for Jennings to be dismissed.
But Alvin McEwen, who runs a blog called "Holy Bullies and Headless
Monsters" and has commented extensively on the Jennings case, said
GLSEN's book recommendations should be seen in a different light.
"GLSEN is saying that parents should decide. They are saying these
books may be a good idea to read, but ultimately it is up to parents,"
he told FoxNews.com.
McEwen said that even though Jennings was the director of GLSEN when
the books were recommended, there was no evidence that he personally
selected the books.
"This is ridiculous guilt-by-association ... just another moral panic
thought up by people who don't have any legitimate reason to oppose
Jennings, so they've made a mountain out of molehill," he said.
Department of Education spokesman Justin Hamilton declined to comment
about Jennings' role in recommending the books.
But critics say Jennings, as GLSEN's first full-time employee and
first executive director, must be held responsible.
"He was at GLSEN from the beginning and was in charge during the time
when these books were approved," said Warren Throckmorton, a professor
at Grove City College.
The blogger at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, wrote elsewhere concerning a
"black book" that contains a gay bar guide and explicit sexual
references that was handed out at a GLSEN event.
But McEwen said it's not clear that Jennings -- or GLSEN -- knew about
the guide, which was distributed by Fenway Community Health officials
at a GLSEN event, which they later said had been a mistake.
Hoft has also alleged that Jennings and GLSEN were involved in Planned
Parenthood's purported distribution of "fisting kits" [fisting
involves forcing one's hand into another person's rectum or vagina] at
at least one GLSEN event. The kit was actually for making a "dental
dam" -- designed to prevent STD transmission during oral sex.
McEwen said that the attacks on Jennings and GLSEN were motivated
largely by homophobia.
"There are a lot of heterosexual books that are just as explicit. In
the first page of 'The Color Purple' [a 1982 novel that has caused
controversy when assigned in schools], the character talks about being
raped in graphic terms... what's in [GLSEN's] books is no different
from what's in The Color Purple."
But Sprigg disagrees that books like "The Color Purple" are comparable
to those recommended by GLSEN.
"We are not talking about 'The Great Gatsby' or 'The Grapes of Wrath'
here," he said. "A lot of people who have only read the news and
opinion pieces on this story, without reading the actual excerpts, may
think that we are talking about the kind of sexual content that might,
in a film, earn a PG-13 or R rating. We are not.
"This is material that, if portrayed visually, would be a triple-X
hard-core porn film, and quite possibly meet the legal definition of
obscenity. In fact, I think the homosexual content is the only thing
preventing the outcry from being even greater, because some people
fear being labeled as 'anti-gay.' If the content were heterosexual in
nature, there would be no one defending it at all."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/14/obamas-safe-schools-czar-tied-lewd-readings/?test=latestnews
this country was stupid enough to elect a nigger. they should have
known
what they were getting, an affirmative action one-and-done.
RTrombone
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> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:18:14 -0500, Mike Flannigan<mflanni...@jam.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:16:43 +0000 (UTC), Ima <o...@two.org> wrote:
>
> Czar Kevin Jennings, the founder of GLSEN, was recently appointed by
> Osbama to run the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools in the US
> Department of Education! Do you Nambla Democruds all sanction what
> Osbama's activists do when they are alone with your kids in the
> tax-funded “gay clubs” in schools and other activities? It’s not
> pretty. In fact, it’s very disgusting. Now you can hear for yourself.
>
> "Fisting, forcing one's entire hand into another person's rectum or
> vagina often gets a bad rap....It's a thrill to let somebody into your
> body that you want to be that close and intimate with and to put you
> into an exploratory mode."
>
> The above quotation comes from Massachusetts Department of Education
> pedophiles describing the pleasures of perverted sex to a group of
> young school students at a State-Sponsored Workshop.
>
> We have the actual audio recordings of what went on at one such event.
> Children as young as 12 were instructed by adult state employees how
> to perform a wide range of dangerous and perverted homosexual sex
> acts. These included: homosexual oral sex techniques, inserting one’s
> entire hand in someone else’s rectum, sado-masochism techniques, girls
> using “dildos” and rubbing their sex organs together for pleasure, and
> much more.
>
> http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/08/fistgate-ii-high-school-students-...
>
> During another workshop an activist pedophile asked 14 year-old
> students, “Spit or swallow?… Is it rude?” The unbelievable audio clip
> is posted here. Barack Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings is
> the founder of GLSEN. He was paid $273,573.96 as its executive
> director in 2007.
>
> >BibsBro wrote
> >>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/obamas-buggery-czar/
>
> >> EDITORIAL: Obama's buggery czar
> >> Jennings' group made sex between children and adults look normal
>
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:23:00 GMT, home@home. (Way Back Jack) wrote:
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> >Kiddie porn courtesy of the black radical you liberals voted for, thru
> >his pedophilic "safe schools czar." How that hope 'n' change thing
> >working for ya?
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