'Safe Schools Czar' Is Anything But Safe

Kevin Jennings is Obama's pick for 'Safe Schools Czar'. He is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men (1).

In 1990, as a teacher in Massachusetts, he founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which now has over 40 chapters at schools nationwide. He has also published six books on gay rights and education, including one that describes his own experiences as a closeted gay student.

In his 2007 autobiography, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir, he wrote:

"I got stoned more often and went out to the beach at Bellows, overlooking Honolulu Harbor and the lights of the city, to drink with my buddies on Friday and Saturday nights, spending hours watching the planes take off and land at the airport, which is actually quite fascinating when you are drunk and stoned." (2)

And this is the guy that's supposed to make schools safe from drugs.

In 1997, according to a transcript put together by Brian J. Burt, managing editor of the student-run Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Jennings said he hoped that promoting homosexuality in schools would be considered fine in the future (3).

The group Jennings founded has also been accused of promoting homosexuality in schools. At a GLSEN conference in 2000, co-sponsored with the Massachusetts Department of Education, the group landed in hot water when it was revealed that it had included an educational seminar for kids that graphically described some unorthodox sex techniques (4). Consider this gem:

"Fisting (forcing one's entire hand into another person's rectum or vagina) often gets a bad rap....[It's] an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with...[and] to put you into an exploratory mode." (5)

From outlandish sexual behavior being taught to kids, to atheism:

"What had [God] done for me, other than make me feel shame and guilt? Squat. Screw you, buddy -- I don't need you around anymore, I decided. The Baptist Church had left me only a legacy of self-hatred, shame, and disappointment, and I wanted no more of it or its Father. The long erosion of my faith was now complete, and I, for many years, reacted violently to anyone who professed any kind of religion. Decades passed before I opened a Bible again."

Another controversy from Jennings' past concerns an account in his 1994 book, "One Teacher In 10," about how, as a teacher, he knew a high school sophomore named Brewster who was "involved" with an "older man":

"Out spilled a story about his involvement with an older man he had met in Boston. I listened, sympathized, and offered advice. He left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on the campus for the next two years, until he graduated." (6)

This page has a link to an MP3 with the audio of that speech.

Once again, we have a radical appointed to serve within the White House. And, once again, it takes the conservative media to point out just how radical this guy is.

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1. Lott, Maxim (2009, September 23). "Critics Assail Obama's 'Safe Schools' Czar, Say He's Wrong Man for the Job". Fox News.
Retrieved September 23, 2009, from Fox News

2. Jennings, Kevin. Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir, p. 103.

3. Lott, Maxim (2009, September 23). "Critics Assail Obama's 'Safe Schools' Czar, Say He's Wrong Man for the Job". Fox News.
Retrieved September 23, 2009, from Fox News

4. Heineman, Maggie (2000, May 17). "Graphic gay sex workshop under fire".
Retrieved September 23, 2009, from PersonProject

5. Lott, Maxim (2009, September 23). "Critics Assail Obama's 'Safe Schools' Czar, Say He's Wrong Man for the Job". Fox News.
Retrieved September 23, 2009, from Fox News

6. Lott, Maxim (2009, September 23). "Critics Assail Obama's 'Safe Schools' Czar, Say He's Wrong Man for the Job". Fox News.
Retrieved September 23, 2009, from Fox News