Their Own Words: Kevin Jennings

Yesterday I sorted through some of the controversy surrounding the "Safe School Czar" Kevin Jennings¹. FOX and other talking heads have now connected the dots and are railing against his comments supporting gay activist Henry Hay and lack of reporting underage gay sex. I personally feel his agenda of teaching gay tolerance as early as kindergarten should face much more scrutiny and controversy.

We can look to the Progressive playground in California to review and understand their agenda, goals and what this government intends for the nation. From the DVD "It's Elementary: Talking about Gay Issues in Schools"², to the Pro-Gay pledges ³, Gay Day, Coming Out Day -- even a mandatory gay tolerance program in Alomeda California: all of this is underway or old news.

Last month I posted the quotes and exerts from interviews with Cass Sunstein ⁴, one of the czars under attack, so it's only fitting to allow Mr. Jennings to speak for himself - in his own words.

“It’s not about how you feel about gay people, it’s about making sure all of our students achieve.” - NEA interview⁵

You may read or hear how Jennings is hostile towards religion based on these comments from his memoir:

"God…had done nothing but cause me pain and anguish through His inaction and malevolence throughout my childhood. … What had he done for me, other than make me feel shame and guilt? Squat. Screw you, buddy — I don’t need you around anymore, I decided."
(Discussing his feelings as a gay teen, frustrated with God)

Stop there, most would agree, but he went on a few sentances later: “Decades passed before I opened a Bible again" and Jennings goes into serving as a board member on the Union Theological Seminary in New York.

But he's no role model:

"I got stoned more often and went out to the beach at Bellows, overlooking Honolulu Harbor and the lights of the city, to drink with my buddies on Friday and Saturday nights, spending hours watching the planes take off and land at the airport, which is actually quite fascinating when you are drunk and stoned." - 2007 autobiography, page 103, "Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir", discussing his high school years in Hawaii in the early 1980s.

Great role model for our school kids.

March 20, 2000 in a speech to Marble Collegiate Church (New York):

"Twenty percent of people are hard-core fair-minded [pro-homosexual] people. Twenty percent are hard-core [anti-homosexual] bigots. We need to ignore the hard-core bigots, get more of the hard-core fair-minded people to speak up, and we'll pull that 60 percent [of people in the middle] … over to our side. That's really what I think our strategy has to be. We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit — … 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! [audience laughter] Drop dead!"

Days later...

Massachusetts Departments of Health and Education led a youth workshop titled "What They Didn't Tell You about Queer Sex & Sexuality in Health Class" - it was in 2000 and hence been dubbed "Fistgate" and is NOT for the meek.

PLEASE BE WARNED THAT THIS IS RATHER INTENSE, GROSS DESCRIPTION



Children as young as 12 (it was promoted to be for ages 14 to 21) were instructed by adults (Massachusetts State employees or members of Jennings' group GLSEN) how to perform a range of dangerous and perverted homosexual sex acts.

One of those State Officials: "Fisting [forcing one's entire hand into another person's rectum or vagina] often gets a bad rap....[It's] an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with...[and] to put you into an exploratory mode."

So, the founder of this organization GLSEN praised a gay activist Harry Hay, a communist and NAMBLA supporter. He has pushed the pro-homosexual agenda with their own brand of bigotry and hatred. I'm going to credit him that he's admitted to error in judgment by NOT reported the homosexual underage sex, but I'm not convinced that he'd changed.

Endorsing a book and supporting a movement as controversial as mandatory gay tolerance in public schools, as early as kindergarten, is NOT mainstream. Safe schools for homosexuality is NOT the mainstream interpretation of safety in schools. The czars are outside of the scrutiny of fellow cabinet members.

We need to be honest here and admit that we, as a society, have been passive and lazy, and NOW realize that the czars need to go. Fire them, defund them and prohibit this circumvention of the constitution by calling and writing our representatives.

1. http://brandon7221.blogspot.com/2009/10/kevin-jennings-next-czar-to-go.html

2. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19357474


3. http://jonathanturley.org/2008/11/01/coming-out-day-california-kindergarten-teacher-has-kids-sign-pro-gay-pledge-cards/

4. http://brandon7221.blogspot.com/2009/09/their-own-words-cass-sunstein.html

5. http://www.nea.org/tools/30428.htm

Image from: http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/story/steve_foley/2009/10/02/harry_hay_nambla_and_obama_s_safe_schools_czar




http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/28/one-small-victory/3

http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2580&department=CFI&categoryid=papers#ref

Their Own Words: Cass Sunstein

Let's examine the Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein.

In this 2003 book, "Why Societies Need Dissent", Cass Sunstein welcomes dissent and promotes openness, attacking "political correctness" in various forms. Sunstein explores how terrorism and violence arises many times from the failure to tolerate dissenting views.

"Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech", from 1995, we find a different tone. Sunstein suggests the First Amendment protects many forms of speech that should never be protected: commercial speech, libelous speech, speech that invades privacy, and certain forms of pornography and hate speech. Sunstein doesn't seem to address defamation and supports the government gaining power over speech.

Dissenters are often portrayed as selfish and disloyal, but Sunstein shows that those who reject pressures imposed by others perform valuable social functions, often at their own expense.

"It is usual to think that those who conform are serving the general interest and that dissenters are antisocial, even selfish. In a way this is true. Sometimes conformists strengthen social bonds, whereas dissenters (endanger those bonds or at least introduce a degree of tension. But in an important respect, the usual thought has things backwards. Much of the time, it is in the individual's interest to follow the crowd, but in the social interest for the individual to say and do what he thinks best. Well-functioning societies take steps to discourage conformity and to promote dissent. They do this partly to protect the rights of dissenters, but mostly to protect interests of their own." - page 212, "Why Societies Need Dissent"

Sunstein is difficult to encapsulate as he supports the State intervening in Free Speech to "reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation, by ensuring greater attention to public issues and greater diversity of views" but we have to wonder why he's not spoken to support dissent at Townhalls or Protests around the country.

Maybe his pro-government beliefs are deeper than we realize.

In this 1999 article (http://home.uchicago.edu/~csunstei/celebrate.html) he tells us how we should celebrate tax day.

"Do not get up tomorrow and drape your house in black! For tax day is not a day of national mourning. Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending."

This is a disturbing perspective on freedom and the government's role in our lives. Sunstein doesn't seem to support private ownership of property without contributing to the good of the collective.

To Sunstein: what good is free speech if we're talking about all of the wrong things and NOT the public good, diversity etc...?

From Cass: "There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day. as Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great Supreme Court justice, liked to say, taxes are "the price we pay for civilization."

I personally find Holmes to be a "moral relativist" and concerning that Sunstein looks to quote him.

In this interview Sunstein expands and introduces "Libertarian Paternalism" (http://www.grist.org/article/2009-green-nudges-an-interview-with-obama-re)

"The price system can be used in a way that fits with people’s moral obligations."

Hence the reason we will see a flurry of vice taxes. Nudges: is this codeword for taxes and penalties?

This "Regulatory Czar" has some very concerning outlooks on how the government interacts with our daily lives. I like to delve into their works, especially interviews, to better understand where these leaders come from, how they'll views will shape their role as a public servant and execute the President's policies.



http://www.littlemag.com/mar-apr01/cass10.html

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/11/07/sunstein/

Wikipedia: soft paternalism aka libertarian parternalism: a political philosophy that believes the state can “help you make the choices you would make for yourself—if only you had the strength of will and the sharpness of mind."