Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings: Another Obama Crony That Must Be Booted!

The MSM has been dragging its feet on Kevin Jennings, Obama's Safe Schools Czar.  Perhaps the MSM's head-in-sand approach will backfire again, making them look stupid (at best ... radical at worst) once again to the American public for their lack of investigative independence, impartiality and integrity.  

Being a teacher and someone who tends to see the world through rose-colored glasses, I have been hesitant to blog on Jennings. The story is so creepy, with details of this man and his dealings being too sexually charged for school children, regardless of age.  His ideology goes against everything I stand for professionally and ethically.  But, I will give you the basics and then refer you to some bloodhound blogs that have done a lot of research.

Troy Silva posted the following background information on Jennings and how he, with his radical agenda, has redefined "safe schools" (from October's AmericanThinker) ... emphasis added:

Kevin Jennings' twisted terminology

Kevin Jennings is Safe School Czar not by some vetting breakdown. He was an official in the Obama Campaign as its Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual fund-raising co-chair. For twenty years until 2008, Jennings succeeded on a massive scale at pro-homosexual propagandizing of school children. His adeptness and accomplishment at semantic deception are extraordinary.

In a 1990 "report" for the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, it was Jennings himself who re-coined the very term "safe school" to mean a pro-homosexual school. Just as the word "gay" is forever tainted and can now rarely be used in its original sense without prompting the snickers or confusion of the listener, so the term "safe school" is now a post-op product of Jennings that bears no similarity to its original meaning. 

This fairly recent change is lost on most of the public, to the severe detriment of millions of American children in public school whose curriculum is controlled by edu-crats who use the Jennings definition. The term "safe school" in the fraudulent sense used by Jennings, et al, must not be confused with the original sense of the term, which was quite literal. The term in this original sense dates at least to the Reagan-era Department of Education "safe school" initiative to curb drug and alcohol use in schools. ...

    

Jennings boasted in a 1995 speech entitled "Winning the Culture War" that he "tilted" the 1990 Massachusetts report with use of the term "safe" in order to put opponents of pro-homosexual curriculum in that state "on the defensive". His national template, used over and over in hundreds of districts and thousands of schools across the country, is to fabricate an epidemic of bullying and violence to homosexuals in schools, in part by citing bogus census or other statistics where classes of people are conflated to come-up with artificially high numbers of incidents of sexual-orientation-based "bullying", "harassment" or violence.

The next step is to contend that the only solution is to make "allies" out of 100% of the straight students in the school or district. "Allies" are made by implementing a usually district-wide "safe-schools" or "anti-bullying" curriculum that force-feeds homosexual propaganda to kindergarten through 12th grade. Prominent psychologists and psychiatrists who oppose them notwithstanding, these towering intellects that run school districts reject all research that will contradict their foregone conclusions. 

Michelle Malkin includes Jennings in her list of "Underreported stories of 2009".  After first blasting the Obama administration for the Van Jones appointment and subsequent revelation of Jones' radical past and then his dismissal, she then launches into Obama's next questionable appointment: Kevin Jennings as Safe Schools Czar (emphasis added):

Obama has appointed unaccountable czars by the mile whose statements and policies have yet to hit national media front pages. The “Safe Schools Czar,” Kevin Jennings, is a far Left activist whose organization GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) is infamous among parents’ groups for promoting explicit, outrageously age-inappropriate sexual lessons in the classroom. GLSEN’s recommended reading for teens includes pamphlets promoting leather bars and public sex in parks and lurid books describing incest, rape, adult-child fantasies, and essay collections in which one author recounted playing “sex therapist” at the age of six with a five-year-old friend, and exploring “our sexuality to its fullest.”

GLSEN’s corporate sponsors include Eastman Kodak, Ernst & Young, PepsiCo, and Time Warner. Eastman Kodak defended its sponsorship as an expression of its commitment to “diversity.” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also said he stood by Jennings earlier this year, before this material was exposed in-depth on Fox News, talk radio, and conservative blogs. Where are the vaunted watchdogs of the Fourth Estate to follow up now?

My favorite blogger Jim Hoft at GatewayPundit has been tracking this story for quite some time, providing not only scathing criticism of Jennings' past record and activities, but bringin' the documentation.  Check out Hoft's two entries from last month  --

• "Fistgate VIII: Safe School Czar Jennings' org promoted book detailing gay sex between first graders."  It sounds incredible, I know, but this entry ends with a list of Hoft's previous postings and is an excellent source for those wishing to learn more about Jennings and GLSEN.

• Hoft provides detailed lists of Jennings' "reading materials" for students: "Breaking: Obama's "Safe School Czar" Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom -- Kevin Jennings and the GSLEN Reading List"

Michelle Malkin has several entries:

• "Safe schools czar now "regrets" failure to report child predator"
• "Who's funding GLSEN?" (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network)
• "Who's funding GLSEN, pt. 2: Corporate phone/e-mail contact list; UPDATE: GLSEN gay bar guide for teens"
• "Eastman Kodak stands by GLSEN"

MassResistance, that bills itself as a pro-family action center for Massachusetts,  has been hot on Jennings' trail as well : Graphic Homosexual and paraphernalia given to kid at the Fistgate conference run by "Safe Schools" czar Kevin Jennings in 2000.  MassResistance has more posts, including information about a petition to have Jennings removed.

The Obama Administration has appointed some very questionable and radical individuals to its office.  Apparently, there is no vetting process to weed out unqualified and questionable people.  From that, one would assume that there is an intentional selection process for radicals. 

The public needs to speak out, demanding investigations and resignations!!!!