He firmly believes in making love, not war.
Posted on 12/04/2009 9:39:19 AM PST by American Dream 246
Scott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com and Co-Host of ‘The B-Cast‘ submitted this shocking report today on Obama’s deviant Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings.
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I was recently approached by a team of independent researchers that I have known for some time and have come to trust. They prepared this report involving ‘Safe Schools Czar’ Kevin Jennings and the organization he founded, GLSEN, and asked that I find a way to help draw attention to what they uncovered. Knowing that Gateway Pundit has followed Kevin Jennings since his appointment, as we have on The B-Cast (here, here, and here), and on Breitbart.tv (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), I felt this would be an appropriate place for this report.
Warning: The following material is very explicit.
Scott Baker
Co-Founder, Breitbart.tv
Co-Host, The B-Cast
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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.
Are we exaggerating, or misconstruing quotes that could be interpreted a different way? No: Read the passages below and judge for yourself. There’s no wiggle room. The language is explicit, the intent clear.
To be specific, the books we read were:
Queer 13
Being Different
The Full Spectrum
Revolutionary Voices
Reflections of a Rock Lobster
Passages of Pride
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian
The Order of the Poison Oak
In Your Face
Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son
Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth
We can only vouch for what’s in these 11 books, since these are the only ones we’ve read through. Are there other books on the GLSEN reading list that are similarly outrageous? We can’t say for sure, but it seems very likely. What you see excerpted below is probably only the tip of the iceberg.
Let it be clear: This issue has nothing to do with gayness or straightness, which is irrelevant to this report. The point proven here is that the GLSEN reading list promotes the sexualization of children in general, regardless of the “orientation.”
And this is not about censorship: It’s about deciding what constitutes appropriate reading material for children. We’re perfectly OK with these books existing and being read by adults; we only start to worry when these books are assigned to children. All sorts of books are excluded from school reading lists, for all sorts of reasons. Even many books once considered classics are now considered off-limits due to language or attitudes now deemed inappropriate. And yet, according to Kevin Jennings and GLSEN, books about a 13-year-old getting “my cock sucked and my ass fucked” or about a teenager enjoying the “exquisite bitter taste” of his friend’s semen are not just acceptable, they’re highly recommended. As GLSEN’s own site says, “All BookLink items are reviewed by GLSEN staff for quality and appropriateness of content.” Really? (Note: GLSEN does advise adults to “review content for suitability.”)
Although GLSEN does not address how books get added to its list, it’s hard to imagine that they are chosen by low-level staffers or volunteers, with no oversight. Since the list of recommended books is one of the organization’s primary tools (”The GLSEN BookLink, an online library of recommended resources, along with the Safe Space program remain cornerstones of GLSEN’s education work.” source), it’s likely that the books were chosen carefully. Kevin Jennings stepped down as Executive Director last year after leading GLSEN since its inception, but every single book mentioned in this report was added to the list while Jennings was in charge (dates are given for each title’s addition to the list). Therefore, it’s reasonable to believe he was aware of the addition of these works – especially since most were added when GLSEN was still quite small and the Executive Director had a hands-on role in daily operations.
Below you will find dozens of excerpts taken from books on the GLSEN “Booklink” recommended reading list for grades 7-12 (i.e. for children between the ages of 12 and 17). To prove that these books are indeed recommended by GLSEN for children, click on each book’s title to see its individual listing on the GLSEN Web site. And to prove that each excerpt is transcribed exactly as it appears in each book, click on the page numbers or the small images along the left to see scans taken directly of the book pages in question. (Ellipses ["..."] indicate unrelated passages not included in some of the transcriptions; click on the full-page scans to see the complete extended quotes.) Each passage is preceded by a brief summary, given in italics.
You decide for yourself if you think these are appropriate for kids as young as 12 years old to read. And then decide if you think the man who headed the organization responsible for recommending these books to children should be in charge of school safety in this country.
Content Warning:
Keep in mind that, although the material below has been deemed by Kevin Jennings and GLSEN to be appropriate for children, some of the excerpts contain explicit language and pornographic descriptions, so if you don’t want to see such things, stop reading now.
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For whatever reason the left just loves perverts and porn. They would love nothing more than to indoctrinate our children with it.
I am already seriously contemplating homeschooling as it is. I see one disgusting thing come my way, I am going to have to act on it.
So what if you get rid of Jennings. The Marxists will come back next year with someone just as vile. And...They have vile people at every level of education already.
One more thing....Betcha my entire 401K plan that Rush, Hannity, Beck and the rest will totally IGNORE this latest example of the “demoralization” that Yuri Bezmenov warned against.
What will it take?
What will it take to cause us to repent?
First of all let's call them what they are: Marxists!
The goal of the Marxist is to “demoralize” our culture. If they do this then the people are confused and morally rudderless. Confused people are easier to cajole into willing accepting communism.
Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB spy, warned about this. More than 85% of the KGB budget was for “demoralization”. Only a mere 15% was for direct spying!
Here is a link to video of an interview with Bezmenov:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo
The following is from the Communist Goals:
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
bump to the top
Another BTTT.
Mrs. Frog, I sure hope you act on your urge to homeschool. It is a powerful legacy to pass on to your children — to protect them from smut and unnecessary peer pressures, and the disease of humanism taught in our public schools. My children (all four homeschooled by me) are healthy, happy, content, well-adjusted, well-socialized, and well-educated. Any sacrifice is worth it. I can give them no greater gift than that of my attention, my efforts, and my life experiences on a daily basis. I am free to teach them both sides of every issue, and I can answer their questions as openly as I want to, without fear of being audited by others. Good luck in your journey toward homeschooling!
Al Gore has been saying that civil disobedience may have a role to play.
Just sayin’.
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Put bars around the WH and crime drops fifty percent in the U.S.
These people make the Russian czars look good.
2nd request:
Please take me off your ping list. I never asked to be on your ping list.
Thank you.
I agree - the time is now past due to “water the Tree of Liberty”.
I have been vehemently opposed to Jennings continuing in his post ever since I first learned (along with much of the rest of America) about his longtime and extensive connections with the radical elements of the hyper-sexualized gay-les-bi-tranny cadre, and I have heard of some of the objectional reading material that tends to find its way into classrooms, but frankly this is so far beyond the pale, it defies all effort at being reasonably justified or explained away.
These people are certifiable. They exist in a completely upside-down world, one where all their waking actions are governed altogether by their proclivities and twisted perversions.
They are - pun fully intended - nakedly pursuing an overt political agenda to gain power and use it as an instrument to enforce their worldviews They desire to marginalize, and silence all who have the temerity to falter in their support, let alone to outright disagree.
I am sick of them and all their unprincipled enablers, and the next one who reaches for one of our sons or daughters should simply be shot, and the body “donated” to “forest agriculture”.
A.A.C.
I think I’m going to be sick. I don’t know how the author of the blog went through those books. I couldn’t even read through half of the excerpts. These books describe masturbation, homosexual sex, and even get into prostitution. What I noted was that masturbation at a young age was talked about, masturbation in public, homosexual encounters between children, homosexual encounters between adults and children, and all in graphic detail.
Liberals want to destroy the traditional family. They want to break down all sexual morals, so it’s no big deal that people of all ages are sexually active.
Remember when Obama discussed teaching sex ed to kindergarteners? Obama knew about GLESN when he appointed this man. In fact, I bet Obama considered that to be one of his main credentials. I wonder, though, would Obama approve of his daughters reading the books on this list? Afterall, his “safe schools czar” seems to think it’s ok.
Sadly, the MSM would never report this, but hopefully, Glenn Beck or someone will report this to get it out there.
They love death too - abortion and euthanasia.
"The goal of the Marxist is to “demoralize” our culture. If they do this then the people are confused and morally rudderless. Confused people are easier to cajole into willing accepting communism."
WARNING: This link contains GLSEN material. GRAPHIC!
http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/glsen_043005/black_book/black_book_inside.htm
Sorry, I haven’t got the nerve to look at this stuff myself, let alone recommend anyone else look at it.
However, I am very grateful some brave souls out there are able to bring this to light so hopefully they can get this czar to slither away.
Eeeewwwwww!
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