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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Reflections of a Rock Lobster – Page 13
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For a couple of years, I searched and searched for a book to give to my sons about the physical changes to expect as they enter adolescence, how to care for themselves, etc. I could find no decent book. Every single one of them had this disgusting stuff in it.
The shocking thing is that many parents think it’s OK for their kids to read that stuff. The other parents probably have no clue what’s in those books. I had to stop family members a few times from buying books that, thanks to FR, I knew contained the same kind of content. Most people don’t know because the advertisements keep it all secret.
When I was growing up, we read Judy Blume, and some of her books contained questionable content, if I remember correctly. But, her books weren’t assigned to us to read in school.
Thanks for the ping!
Soooooooooooooooo...
A DC city staffer is fired for using the word “niggardly,” and Huck Finn is banned for using the N-word, in spite of recognizing Jim’s inherent humanity.
BUT...
It’s OK to peddle stories about 13-year-old boys having unnatural things done to them.
Heh.
Might as well have a stripper or a pro give a graduation address.
Homeschooling is the only answer. It is a great sacrifice, but worth it in the long run so that your children are not offered on the Altar of Baal to these evil perverts.
For sex ed, we had a simple, science based course. It was a Catholic School, and we never got into those type of books. My mother also explained everything to me as well.
The types of books on that list are completely unncessary, and they are only being used to promote an agenda.
couldn’t read any more it made me sick and angry.
Good job that pervert is not near me right now
this should be in news and posted to all media outlets, yes I know there are perverts who agree with this in the media but the likes of Laura Inghram , savage, coulter, Dr Laura etc will report it unlike the likes of hannity, Oreilly
sent this off to everyone I know, home and abroad
I doubt he would report it seeing as everyone who does talk radio and is in NY city fails to report any of this.
I bet Sarah Palin who has children would not be happy about this and would report it on her face book as well as mention this
not old news to me or many others i have informed
just said the same
Hannity Oreilly Beck etc out of NY city will never report this and that really pisses me off.
If they used videos to tell the folks what these perverts really get up to the outrage would be so much that Jennings etc would have to be fired
I couldn’t read half of those quotes
There are 2 issues that have revealed the **true** face of the conservative talk show yappers ( Rush, Hannity, Beck, ORielly, Ingram etc.):
1) They IGNORED Obama’s natural born status.
2) They IGNORE the homosexual outrages and bullying.
Sorry...But some issues are deal breakers. I will NEVER trust these guys again.
Beck and Hannity NEVER report on this stuff. They are as silent about it as Obama’s natural born status.
As for Rush...He pokes a little fun at it once in while ( just as with Obama’s natural born status) but **NEVER** seriously covers the topic. He throws out just enough humor ( on both issues) to pacify his listeners and fool them into thinking he is the real deal.
They love death too - abortion and euthanasia.
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I call them the “Death Eaters”.
same here.
They make a lot of money off conservatives and yet ignore issues which is important to the future of our country and our children.
Makes me sick.
Hannity , Huckabee have a show where where it is not hard to take a camera up to the likes of their freak parades like at the Folsom fair.
Now it is reported that tents will be set up to let casual sex go on in the street.
WTH
Show the videos and show these homosexuals for what they really and how they really act.
None of this”well I know a couple of them and they are nice they just want to be left alone”
That is utter crap
Like from Harry Potter, huh? Good nickname.
9/11 x 100?
Short of a disaster or terrorist attack, nothing, I’m afraid.
Yep! Borrowed intentionally from Harry! :-)
These degenerates are really pushing the envelope to see how much we can take.
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