Update: Citizen Link blog notes that Kevin Jennings will be given an additional $45 million for his budget in 2011, bringing the money under his management to $410 million.
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I missed this interesting story at the end of last year, from Gateway Pundit. Strange that child abuse/pedophilia and its promotion is a big story for the press when it’s related to the Catholic church or Republican politicians (and it should be), but a non-story at other times. I wonder why.
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 17, 2009, 6:12 AM
(Big Warning on Content)
Yesterday, we reported that Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization were promoting a book to children that included a pornographic image of men having sex while boy scouts looked on. The day before that we reported that Kevin Jennings’ organization GLSEN was promoting a children’s book that detailed first-graders having sex.As founder and executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) Jennings approved of and promoted several filthy sex books for children. Scott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com and Co-Host of ‘The B-Cast‘ submitted a shocking report to Gateway Pundit blog back on December 4, 2009. The report detailed the reading list promoted to 7-12 grade students by Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN organization. This material has not been reported in detail at Big Government website. Remember as you read this that Kevin Jennings is today the nation’s Safe Schools Czar.
Here again is what Scott Baker had to say about this vile material being pushed on children.
Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of an organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN started essentially as Jennings’ personal project and grew to become the culmination of his life’s work. And he was chosen by President Obama to be the nation’s Safe Schools Czar primarily because he had founded and led GLSEN (scroll for bio).
GLSEN’s stated mission is to empower gay youth in the schools and to stop harassment by other students. It encourages the formation of Gay Student Alliances and condemns the use of hateful words. GLSEN also strives to influence the educational curriculum to include materials which the group believes will increase tolerance of gay students and decrease bullying. To that end, GLSEN maintains a recommended reading list of books that it claims “furthers our mission to ensure safe schools for all students.” In other words, these are the books that GLSEN’s directors think all kids should be reading: gay kids should read them to raise their self-esteem, and straight kids should read them in order to become more aware and tolerant and stop bullying gay kids. Through GLSEN’s online ordering system, called “GLSEN BookLink,” featured prominently on their Web site, teachers can buy the books to use as required classroom assignments, or students can buy them to read on their own.
According to GLSEN’s own press releases from the period during which its recommended reading list was developed, the organization’s three areas of focus were creating “educational resources, public policy agenda, [and] student organizing programs”; in other words, the reading list (chief among its “educational resources”) was of prime importance in GLSEN’s efforts to influence the American educational system.
The list is divided into three main categories: books recommended for grades K-6; books recommended for grades 7-12; and books for teachers. (The books on the list span all genres: fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, even poetry.)
Out of curiosity to see exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school, our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through.
What we discovered shocked us. We were flabbergasted. Rendered speechless.
We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.
We knew that unless we carefully documented what we were reading, the public would have a hard time accepting it. Mere descriptions on our part could not convey the emotional gut reaction one gets when seeing what Kevin Jennings wants kids to read as school assignments. So we began scanning pages from each of the books, and then made exact transcriptions of the relevant passages on each page.
For today’s report we give you another of of GLSEN’s recommended books for 7-12 graders. This book Queer 13 included a very graphic story about the rape of a 13 year-old child and anonymous sex in public bathrooms. It is very difficult to read–-
LILA: CONTENT REDACTED FROM MY BLOG. YOU CAN READ IT ON THE ORIGINAL SITE.
Does this sound like something you want your 7th grader to read? Is this porn really appropriate for 13 year-olds?
Yesterday 12 conservative organizations sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions demanding that Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings be Fired. You can help out too by contacting the committee yourself here.
** And you can contact your representative or senator here and demand that Kevin Jennings be fired.”
He didn’t get fired, did he?
Probably got a bonus.
Soon the youth will grow up and they won’t see anything wrong with the TSA looking at naked x-ray images of children who pass through the airports just like their parents who accept The Fed, because that’s what they were told to think.
They certainly won’t feel uneasy about CCTV pointed at them at every turn they take in public. Conditioning works.
‘Stead of Mericans, maybe we should be called Pavlovians?
A young woman in front of me in line at a store talking to a young man said she didn’t know what oil spill he was talking about, because like she told him, she doesn’t watch the news.
I thought, one good point for her I guess.
People seem to have lost the notion of balance or proportion.
It’s one thing to defend the rights of homosexuals including their right to civil marriage.
It’s another to use the state to shove alternative life-styles and agendas onto other people’s children..
But apparently even the right-wing Little Green Footballs finds this piece “homophobic”. Maybe we need a few new words. What about “heterophobic”? Or “pedophobic” (hatred of children).
Pedophilic behavior doesn’t need to be demonized. But that doesn’t mean it needs to be promoted at taxpayer expense.
Like we have that much money to spare, to begin with.
THIS COMMENT FROM ME IS A RESPONSE TO AN EARLIER COMMENT THAT I DELETED.
I DELETED IT BECAUSE IT WAS SOMEWHAT AD HOMINEM AND ALSO WRONGLY ASSERTED THAT THERE WAS NOT TRUE PEDOPHILIC CONTENT BUT DESCRIBED 13 YEAR OLDS).
AS I POINT OUT, A CAREFUL READING OF ALL THE MATERIAL SHOWS IT IS INDEED ORIENTED TOWARD PEDOPHILIA THROUGH DESCRIPTIONS OF 5-6 YEAR OLD SEX PLAY.
Also – it IS pedophilia.
The literature avidly describes sex play between 5 and 6 year olds, sexualizing them thoroughly..that is material being read by and directed by adults.
It is definitely spectacular…i.e. it caters to adult voyeurism and older children.
Possibly it titillates you.
I find it sad.
Catcher in the Rye…you can’t escape this stuff anywhere you go these days.
Your comment is so off-base, I’m going to delete it.