The American Family Association today joined in the call for the removal of "gay" activist Kevin Jennings from his job as overseer in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe Schools.
"This man is not a good role model for the nation's children, nor will he fairly represent all Americans due to his spiteful attitude toward evangelical Christians," AFA President Tim Wildmon said.
"Are we to believe Kevin Jennings will fairly treat Christians who believe homosexuality is wrong?" Wildmon asked. “Students of faith will hardly be safe from bullying and intimidation in any school that listens to him. It's time for the Obama administration to demand his resignation.”
WND has been reporting on Jennings, his background and his opinions for several months. Just yesterday WND carried a report about a letter project set up by the American Principles Project, which is dedicated to preserving and propagating the fundamental principles on which the U.S. was founded.
The group has set up a website program through which concerned parents and others can send a message to members of Congress, objecting to Jennings.
Robert George, the McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University and organization founder, explains the problem:
According to a statement released by the project, Jennings "supports a radical agenda regarding homosexuality that has no place in our schools. As the author of the foreword to the book 'Queering Elementary Education' and the former Director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, he is deeply out-of-sync with the majority of Americans and does not respect the rights of parents on these sensitive issues."
Other evidence of his radical beliefs also has been appearing. In a YouTube video he's heard telling an audience that teachers should be required to undergo "bias" indoctrination "before they are allowed in a school as a teacher near children."
"If they aren't aware of their biases, they are a threat to children," he claimed.
WND started reporting on the Jennings appointment and its controversy in May, and has documented a number of situations that reflect Jennings' philosophy, from a New England case where educators won a court battle to spring homosexual promotions on students as young as kindergarten without letting parents know to California, where a "safe schools" plan is being used to teach children as young as five about transgender communities.
Revealed less than a week ago was a transcript from a 1997 speech that shows Jennings expressing his admiration for Harry Hay, one of the nation's first homosexual activists who launched the Mattachine Society in 1948, founded the Radical Faeries and was a longtime advocate for the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA.
"One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay," the transcript shows Jennings saying, "who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. In 1948, he tried to get people to join the Mattachine Society. It took him two years to find one other person who would join.
"Well, [in] 1993," Jennings continued, "Harry Hay marched with a million people in Washington who thought he had a good idea 40 years before."
WND previously has reported on other aspects of Jennings' homosexual activism, including his founding of the organization "Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network," which advocates for homosexuality in public schools.
Most recently, he admitted that he now knows he should have reacted differently two decades ago when he was a teacher and he was approached by a 15-year-old student who admitted he had a sexual relationship with an older man. Some later reports said the student was 16, even though Jennings described him as 15.
Jennings' response was to suggest using a condom, although the student's statement probably revealed, depending on his age, at a minimum, statutory rape.
His perspectives and activities have come under scrutiny because of his office, where he now is responsible for creating and implementing programs that make public school classrooms across America "safe."
"The protection of children is one goal that we can all agree on," The American Principles Project statement said. "But the innocence of our children is threatened by the appointment of Kevin Jennings. … Through his actions and statements, Mr. Jennings has shown that he cannot be trusted with this position and should be removed from it as soon as possible."