If anyone has any doubts about the direction Secretary Education Arne Duncan wants to take public education regarding the issue of homosexuality, look no further than his selection of Kevin Jennings as the Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. (Read the DOE Press Release HERE.) Remember, it was Arne Duncan who last October approved the nation’s third homosexuality-affirming high school while CEO of Chicago Public Schools.
Kevin Jennings is the founder of the radical homosexual activist group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) that you may know as the sponsor of the Day of Silence. This organization is committed to using public education to normalize homosexuality and gender confusion and demonize orthodox Christian view on these topics. GLSEN exploits “safe schools” and anti-bullying programs to achieve their subversive and destructive goals.
Jennings has written or edited multiple books that serve his goal of undermining conservative beliefs, including Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students in which he states emphatically that teachers “must teach gay history.” He also looks “forward to the day when books such as this are commonplace.”
Kevin Jennings had this to say about people of faith who affirm orthodox biblical views of homosexuality:
We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. . . I’m trying to find a way to say this. I’m trying not to say, ‘[F—] ’em!’ which is what I want to say, because I don’t care what they think!
He also calls theologically orthodox Christians “hard-core bigots” and suggests they “Drop dead!”
While under his leadership, GLSEN sponsored what has come to be called “Fistgate,” the notorious education seminar in Massachusetts that both children as young as 12 and teachers attended. This event was considered a professional development opportunity for teachers who could earn required professional accreditation credits for attending.
Some of the goals of this conference, formally titled “Teach Out,” were “to build more Gay/Straight Alliances in Massachusetts and expand homosexual teaching into the lower grades.” (Read more here)
If you want a sample of what teens were exposed to at “Teach Out” click here [Warning: disturbing and graphic details.]
Kevin Jennings believes that affirming profoundly deviant sexual behavior that results in disease and spiritual death will make our students “safe,” and he is committed to using public education to promote his insidious vision. If this is not the epitome of hate, I don’t know what is.
Our benighted Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, scoured the country, searching far and wide from among thousands of educators to find the best candidate for the job. And who did Duncan select? He chose the ignorant, intolerant destroyer of children, Kevin Jennings, to be his Assistant Deputy Secretary.
If you find this appointment troubling, please contact President Obama, Secretary of Education, and your U.S. congressmen to demand politely that Jennings resign.
Arne Duncan: arne.duncan@ed.gov
President Barack Obama: 202-456-1414
