Obama safe school czar Kevin Jennings has an image problem

Kevin Jennings has an image problem. Period. I was going to leave it at that, but at this point many of you have already seen the posts from other bloggers on our home page Newswire referring to Jennings’ connection to – actually he founded – the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

If you’re interested in finding out what all the chatter is about [gotta drop a content warning here if you start clicking links], Michelle Malkin has a couple of posts here and here, and Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit is releasing more information here, here, here, here, here, here and here. No need to click on all the links, make it through one and you’ll get the jist of it.

Jennings is currently President Obama’s “safe school” czar. I’m not quite certain of his current job description or responsibilities since I can not figure out for the life of me how some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. can keep the kids in South Street Elementary School in Anytown, U.S.A. safe, but that’s beside the point.

Back in September you may remember Jennings was in the news when it was discovered he found out about a 16 year old student – Jennings was a teacher –  having sex with an older man he met at a bus station bathroom. Prior experience keeping kids safe? You decide. From The New American

Brewster/Robertson, a 15-to-16-year-old “troubled kid” who is abusing drugs and regularly traveling unsupervised to Boston (45 minutes away) to have sex with men (at least one of whom he met in a bus station restroom), repeatedly tells Jennings of these “adventures.” Jennings knows that the boy is suffering from depression and believes that his life is not worth saving. He knows that the boy is crushed by rejection of a sex partner he thought was his true love. Jennings, who is well aware of the promiscuity of the homosexual community and how vulnerable a youngster like Brewster can be when thrown into that adult environment, can only muster a vapid warning to “use a condom.” Jennings’ own partner had just died of AIDS, and news stories of AIDS and other STDs ravaging the homosexual community were making daily headlines, but all Jennings could tell Brewster was to “use a condom.” He didn’t inform the school administration, Brewster’s parents, or any other authorities regarding the serious peril this young adolescent was in.

The new revelations branded fistgate – if you wish to call it that – did make it to the main stream media on Hannity’s show as he discussed the subject with Michelle.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0NRI-Dla88&feature=player_embedded

Exit question. Why does this stuff seem to be completely acceptable to parent teacher organizations, the National Education Association, the Massachusetts Department of Education, and the White House, but when a teacher wears a cross, kids read from a Bible, or a Christmas Tree is on display in a public school in the middle-of-nowhere U.S.A. the entire world knows about it within days and liberals are totally freaking out about the separation of church and state?

I know, I know … this is not a separation of church and state issue. My point is everybody seems fine with all of this and Jennings continue to work as Obama’s safe school czar.

What the heck?

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Steve McGough

Steve's a part-time conservative blogger. Steve grew up in Connecticut and has lived in Washington, D.C. and the Bahamas. He resides in Connecticut, where he’s comfortable six months of the year.

3 Comments

  1. donh on December 11, 2009 at 3:32 am

    The most widely circulated image of Kevin Jennings shows him posing casually outside a chain link fensed inner city basketball court. .. .http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/10/kevin_jennings-older1.jpg….It is a very appropriate image picture. Kevin Jennings strikes me as that kind of middle aged pervert sex offender who hangs around the perimiter of parks and playgrounds looking for a lonely naive child to take home.



  2. ali-t on December 12, 2009 at 4:24 am

    This scenario was predicted over 20 years ago.  State approved homosexual marriage/sex was the key to the school door.   Any manner of perverted sexual practices are now considered "acceptable" and "normal" and can be freely promoted in public schools.  This was the goal of the militant homosexual community (I am not referring to my homosexual friends who want to live and let live).  Gain access to the minds of our children, and the battle is won.  Moms and dads, you have fallen asleep.  You have put your heads in the sand.  It's time to wake up and say "no" to the teaching of sex education in the schools.  You have relinquished your duty to teach your children these important things, and handed your responsibility over to strangers.



  3. donh on December 12, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    I question Kevin's motives. Does he really care about kids, or is he in it for  his own prurient  interests. Where is the diversity?  Why is he  only interested in the gay kids. Why not be against bullying for all children?  There may be no complaints against Kevin for making sexual advances, but the more sinister predator is looking for a consentual victim that hits on him . That controversial book  passage  tells me a lot about how Kevin would respond if a gay boy ever approached him in sexual advance. The whole point of that  passage could be  as a wink of the eye  for special boys to come see Kevin if they have older man issues .



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