Kevin Jennings – Safe school czar?
Over last weekend, I began reading different news stories about the appointment of Kevin Jennings as assistant deputy for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, U.S. Department of Education and the opposition of Republicans in Washington. The man has been a well known homosexual activist for years and some people have reservations about his appointment. As I began doing research about the man, I began to wonder about the appointment myself, Republican disapproval not withstanding.
Part of the opposition to his appointment stemmed from a story that he has told himself, about a 15-year-old boy that supposedly told him about having sex with an older man. It has been extremely difficult to get to the truth about the matter, as Jennings has told the story differently every time he has mentioned it, but it seems clear that even Jennings himself wishes he had handled it in some other manner.
Kevin Jennings has been well known in the homosexual community for several years. He is the founder of the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that says they seek to prevent the bullying of homosexual students, but who has worked steadfastly to promote homosexuality in our public schools. It is that work which is most troubling.
Let me say this as plainly as I know how. I am not in favor of the bullying of any student, no matter their religion, color, sex, or sexual orientation. I have seen bullying at it’s worst and it is a very ugly sight. Ask our daughters to tell you how strict I was on them when it comes to bullying. It is one practice that we see entirely too much of in our world, both by children and adults, and it is one practice I can not abide.
On the surface, it would appear that Jennings has a noble cause, but when you start digging a little deeper, I am afraid there is much more to this story than the prevention of bullying. He has made his intentions clear in his words and by his actions. He advocates teaching children in kindergarten about homosexuality, in an effort for them to recognize all sexual orientations. In case you are wondering why he wants to start that young, here is a little tidbit for you. At a GLSEN conference in 1997, he told his fellow gay teachers that teaching children to respect homosexuality had to be done “before the children have a chance to be prejudiced by their parents and churches.”
How strongly does he believe in teaching homosexuality? He wants to make it a mandate. Consider this, from his book Always My Child. Jennings calls for a “diversity policy that
mandates including LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] themes in the curriculum.” He also implies that there is no such thing as ex-gay, by declaring “Ex-gay messages have no place in our nation’s public schools. A line has been drawn. There is no ‘other side’ when you’re talking about lesbian, gay and bisexual students.”
I have a question for you. Why is it that Kevin Jennings thinks it is okay to teach six-year-old children about homosexuality but it is not okay to teach them Christian values? Why is it that he wants to get to our children so early? It’s because he knows his homosexual agenda doesn’t stand a chance unless he beats the parents and the churches to the punch.
I have tried to be fair in my assessment of President Obama and his policies, but the Jennings appointment is one I simply can not understand. From it’s beginning, GLSEN has been very outspoken in it’s push for the homosexual agenda. They want to normalize their choice of lifestyle, to make it acceptable to the rest of the country. Forcing it down the throats of young children is one way they have of doing that and I find that tactic very offensive. Children are very impressionable at that age and there is no reason for them to be subjected to such propaganda.
Just as plainly as I stated my opposition to the practice of bullying, let me also state my opposition to the homosexual agenda and the goals Kevin Jennings has set for himself and other homosexuals. They clearly want access to the children of this country at a very early age, all the better to indoctrinate them with acceptance of homosexuality. Call me bigoted and hateful if you must, but understand this. Jennings has no right to push his homosexual agenda down our throats or those of our children. Nothing can come from this, except for a great deal of harm for our children and our country. A safe school czar he is not.
He is willfully undermining the parents of these children. It should be up to the parents to teach children right from wrong and to teach morality as they see fit not as the state sees fit. That is the problem with the statists who believe that the state is always right, they want to take away our rights in order to impose their views.
Perhaps Obama picked Jennings to appease the gay community because so far the are pretty upset with his lack of action on their issues.
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My point exactly, Mr. Pink Eyes. Some people may wonder why I am so much against the homosexual agenda, but the actions of Kevin Jennings speak for themselves. He is clearly biased towards that kind of behavior and I am afraid his appointment has nothing to do with keeping our schools safe. I would contend they are much less safe with him in his position at the Department of Education.
>>I have a question for you. Why is it that Kevin Jennings thinks it is okay to teach six-year-old children about homosexuality but it is not okay to teach them Christian values?<>Forcing it down the throats of young children is one way they have of doing that and I find that tactic very offensive<<
-No, what is offensive is the violence perpetrated against gay&lesbian students as they get older.
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I am not advocating violence towards anyone, David. I find that offensive as well, but just because it happens doesn’t mean it is okay for Kevin Jennings to do his best to push the homosexual agenda on unwilling families and their children. That kind of thing does not belong in the public schools, but they want it there. What do you suppose is their reason? It is not to prevent violence, but to do their best to normalize their perverted kind of sexual relationships.
Larry, i’m sure you don’t condone violence……..
It’s just when a group of people are demonized by some church authorities (like Dobson), it gives license to some morons to go out and beat up gays. This violence occurs, and in some people’s minds they think by some twisted logic that it is somehow “God’s Will”…….
That’s truly scary.
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Larry, Your analysis of Kevin Jennings ( “Safe School Czar” ) is on the mark. I would go a step further in saying that the philosophy and practices of the persons and organizations with which he is associated have displayed a great deal of tyranny and intolerance toward those who are not in agreement with their agenda.
But it is not only Kevin Jennings that is cause for concern. The Obama administration is full of persons with ethical and moral blemishes and hard left political philosophies.
David,
It is certainly a travesty when homosexuals or anyone else is beat up or otherwise abused. That does not however, give Kevin Jennings or anyone else the right to go into our schools and teach homosexual behavior to our children.
“That does not however, give Kevin Jennings or anyone else the right to go into our schools and teach homosexual behavior to our children.
-says Larry.
Is Mr. Jennings teaching homosexual behavior to our children, or is he teaching our children to accept those who are different from us?
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He is teaching them about a behavior that is completely against the laws of nature and at a very young age. He has no business in our schools doing that.
I personally would not like my children to be learning about sex one way or another at school, and certainly NOT in kindergarten! Why don’t they just focus on things like math, science, and English in school, like they did when I was a child? Isn’t the purpose of education so that they can learn the skills they’ll need in the workforce when they grow up? Teaching childen about sex is completely irrelevant and uncalled for in school. It should be up to the parents to do this. Has anyone else noticed that since children have started learning about it so early, teenage pregnancies, abortions, and STDs seem to be a norm? Hellooooo!!!!
Here! Here!, Carrie. I agree wholeheartedly. The public school system has no business teaching our children about any form of sex. That should be strictly the job of the parents.