APIA Background on Kevin Jennings
On May 19, 2009, Kevin Jennings was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education, Office of Safe & Drug-Free Schools. Below are some background facts:
• Kevin Jennings has called those unwilling to accept his homosexual agenda “hard-core bigots,” as compared to the “fair-minded” supporters of Jennings’ previous organization, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), whose core mission includes “incorporating homosexual concepts into all curriculum.”
• While Kevin Jennings was leading GLSEN, the organization sought to teach pro-homosexual themes through indoctrination to children as young as kindergarteners because children at that age are “developing their superego” and “that’s when the saturation process needs to begin.”
• During a 2000 conference hosted by Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN, and open to children as young as fourteen and twelve-years-old, panelists participated in a very graphic discussion of “fisting,” the act of forcing one's entire hand into another person's rectum or vagina. Rather than decry the activity the panelists said that “it gets a bad rap,” and that it was about “intimacy” and “exploration.”
• At the same conference involving the “fisting” controversy, teenage girls were required to role-play as two infatuated lesbians, and children were told that they could make an “informed decision” not to use a condom during premarital sexual activity.
• Kevin Jennings wrote the foreword to the book, Queering Elementary Education, endorsing a work that sought to reaffirm “sissy boys,” hoped to re-educate parents opposed to teaching homosexual culture in grade-schools, and claimed that “presumed heterosexuality . . . is an artifact of oppression.”
• When Kevin Jennings was a teacher in the late 1980s, a teenage student confided in Jennings his sexual relationship with an older man. Jennings’ response was, “I hope you knew to use a condom.” Then, in clear defiance of Massachusetts state law, Jennings never reported the sexual abuse to the authorities, the school, or the student’s parents.
• In 2004, two groups from National Educator’s Association (NEA) protested Kevin Jennings’ reception of an award for “Creative Leadership in Human Rights.” The protesters claimed that Jennings had been unethical in his negligence to report the above instance of sexual abuse, and that he was intolerant to former gays who had later renounced same-sex relationships. Jennings had said that, “ex-gay messages have no place in our nation's public schools.”
• Kevin Jennings has openly told those who oppose the promotion of homosexuality due to religious convictions to “drop dead.”
• Although Kevin Jennings’ office leads the Department of Education’s initiatives regarding the prevention of drug abuse and drug-induced violence, Jennings has admitted in his memoir that he was a habitual marijuana user during his high school years.
• Kevin Jennings’ office also leads all “safe school” initiatives, but Jennings’ organization, GLSEN, holds that, with regard to LGBT students (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender), “the pursuit of safety and affirmation are one and the same goal.” It is not hard to imagine Jennings’ pushing for the promotion of homosexual conduct under the umbrella of “safety.”
• Kevin Jennings has called those unwilling to accept his homosexual agenda “hard-core bigots,” as compared to the “fair-minded” supporters of Jennings’ previous organization, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), whose core mission includes “incorporating homosexual concepts into all curriculum.”
• While Kevin Jennings was leading GLSEN, the organization sought to teach pro-homosexual themes through indoctrination to children as young as kindergarteners because children at that age are “developing their superego” and “that’s when the saturation process needs to begin.”
• During a 2000 conference hosted by Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN, and open to children as young as fourteen and twelve-years-old, panelists participated in a very graphic discussion of “fisting,” the act of forcing one's entire hand into another person's rectum or vagina. Rather than decry the activity the panelists said that “it gets a bad rap,” and that it was about “intimacy” and “exploration.”
• At the same conference involving the “fisting” controversy, teenage girls were required to role-play as two infatuated lesbians, and children were told that they could make an “informed decision” not to use a condom during premarital sexual activity.
• Kevin Jennings wrote the foreword to the book, Queering Elementary Education, endorsing a work that sought to reaffirm “sissy boys,” hoped to re-educate parents opposed to teaching homosexual culture in grade-schools, and claimed that “presumed heterosexuality . . . is an artifact of oppression.”
• When Kevin Jennings was a teacher in the late 1980s, a teenage student confided in Jennings his sexual relationship with an older man. Jennings’ response was, “I hope you knew to use a condom.” Then, in clear defiance of Massachusetts state law, Jennings never reported the sexual abuse to the authorities, the school, or the student’s parents.
• In 2004, two groups from National Educator’s Association (NEA) protested Kevin Jennings’ reception of an award for “Creative Leadership in Human Rights.” The protesters claimed that Jennings had been unethical in his negligence to report the above instance of sexual abuse, and that he was intolerant to former gays who had later renounced same-sex relationships. Jennings had said that, “ex-gay messages have no place in our nation's public schools.”
• Kevin Jennings has openly told those who oppose the promotion of homosexuality due to religious convictions to “drop dead.”
• Although Kevin Jennings’ office leads the Department of Education’s initiatives regarding the prevention of drug abuse and drug-induced violence, Jennings has admitted in his memoir that he was a habitual marijuana user during his high school years.
• Kevin Jennings’ office also leads all “safe school” initiatives, but Jennings’ organization, GLSEN, holds that, with regard to LGBT students (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender), “the pursuit of safety and affirmation are one and the same goal.” It is not hard to imagine Jennings’ pushing for the promotion of homosexual conduct under the umbrella of “safety.”