Do safe schools require an iron fisting?
posted at 10:12 am on December 11, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
I’ve received a lot of e-mail asking why I haven’t written about the controversy over Kevin Jennings, Barack Obama’s “safe schools” czar. To be honest, the story is so shocking that I haven’t quite grasped how to approach it. Jennings ran an outfit called Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) from its inception in 1995 until last year. During that time, as Jim Hoft at Big Government has detailed, GLSEN offered sex education seminars to young teenagers within the framework of public education that went way, way beyond explanations of human biology and disease transmission. According to multiple sources, GLSEN discussed “fisting”, oral sex etiquette, and other techniques to 14-year-olds, until the program got exposed by local Massachusetts media, and the instructor got fired as a scapegoat. Jim has the audio from one of the seminars, discussing the proper hand position for “fisting”:
Margot Abels, who got fired by GLSEN after the content of the seminars became known, says Jennings and others at GLSEN knew the content of their curriculum and approved it. If one sees the handout material GLSEN provided for these classes, that becomes rather obvious:
For those not in the know, “rimming” has nothing to do with basketball, “watersports” does not relate to swimming, “toys” isn’t a nostalgic look back to Barbie and GI Joe, but there’s no mistaking “Mutual Jerkin’ Off”.
The Washington Times wonders what about all of this made Kevin Jennings qualified to be a “safe” school expert:
But there is more. There are shocking new revelations this week of tape recordings from a youth conference involving 14-year-old students. The conference, billed as a forum to encourage tolerance of homosexuality, was sponsored by Mr. Jennings’ organization and was held at Tufts University in March 2000. Mr. Jennings was executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) from its founding in 1995 until August 2008. The conference sessions appear to have had less to do with promoting tolerance and more to do with teaching children how to engage in sex. …
It is outrageous that someone involved in this scandal is being paid by the taxpayers to serve in a high-powered position at the Education Department, of all places. At some point, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Jennings, Obama administration spokesmen and the president himself are going to have to start answering questions about all this. Refusing to do so won’t make the issue go away.
Almost every parent wants their children to be well-informed on human biology and reproduction at the age of 14. They don’t want activists in their schools attempting to teach their 14-year-old children fetishistic techniques such as fisting, rimming, or watersports. Anyone who thinks that these topics are appropriate for 14-year-olds in the context of public education is someone who shouldn’t be within 500 yards of any school, let alone be the “safe schools” czar.
Twenty-five years ago, Monty Python’s Meaning of Life satirized parental fears over sex education in schools with a hilarious segment in which the teacher actually demonstrates sexual techniques with his wife to a room full of bored and distracted teenage boys. The hilarity of this skit relies on the ridiculous notion that anyone would ever dream of doing something this inappropriate in a school. Unfortunately, in this case, life has trumped satire — and now we call it the Obama administration. This clip is NSFW, but so is this whole thread.
Update: Michelle has been all over this topic at her blog, of course. She’s been checking into GLSEN’s funding here and here, and got Eastman Kodak on the record defending their support for this curriculum. On Wednesday, Michelle discussed the story and its myriad aspects with Sean Hannity:
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That can I definitely agree with.
Dare I ask how you know? ;}
Dark-Star on December 11, 2009 at 3:57 PM
rob verdi -
Do you think they can just quietly get rid of this guy? Aren’t they gay rights groups dug in pretty hard in support of him? I think they’ll howl if he’s let go, and I actually hope they do to bring more attention to it.
chris999 on December 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM
thanks for the tip on kodak. They should look forward to a little note from me soon. Jackasses. er… I didn’t mean that…er ugh.
ted c on December 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Yes…they think it is just fine…
Like someone posted “a strange day indeed”…
right2bright on December 11, 2009 at 4:11 PM
How long before some leftie, koolaid drinker says we are against safe sex when we criticize this crap? Kids are going to do it anyway, they should have proper instruction so they can do it safely.
The mind reels.
aikidoka on December 11, 2009 at 4:11 PM
aididoka
I would love it if they would try to publicly argue that this is safe sex and that these kids need proper instruction. I would love to see a hearing in congress on this, but democrats won’t let that happen.
chris999 on December 11, 2009 at 4:31 PM
I heard about this a few days ago and I have to admit, I was shocked. I mean come on.
Terrye on December 11, 2009 at 4:32 PM
That’s certainly an overused phrase by the hard-left, but sadly more correct than we’d like to admit.
The change from rural to urban environments, the advent of communication/information access that parents are almost powerless to prevent access to, and an overreaction to the frog-march mentality of earlier generations have combined into a perfect storm.
Dark-Star on December 11, 2009 at 4:33 PM
She’s in Eds fan club on FaceBook
DarkCurrent on December 11, 2009 at 4:45 PM
I am disturbed with common theme I see with Jennings that young homosexuals require ‘mentoring’ from older homosexuals.
BohicaTwentyTwo on December 11, 2009 at 4:47 PM
What are we waiting for?
rayra on December 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM
What a dilemma I find myself in. Back in October Kodak approached me with a offer to do some engineering work. It is a pretty good gig so I took it. They gave me a very generous salary and benefit package and a brand new car. Today I am writing from Kodak’s headquarters in Rochester.
I had no idea that Kodak was supporting this deviant, anti-American and ungodly behavior. I am saddened by these revelations. I liked working for Kodak. I really did. But there is no way that I as a patriot, a veteran, and a father can allow Kodak to profit from my ingenuity and skills and use a part of those profits to support this program of deviancy.
When I return home next week I will have to fire Kodak. I will speak with Deborah A. Shuryn before I terminate them and give them a chance to explain and reverse these diseased concepts they have embraced but I know nothing will change.
I am seriously bummed.
Guardian on December 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Geez … can you afford to do that?
darwin on December 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Now I know why Obowma likes to surround himself with people in white lab coats…
Seven Percent Solution on December 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Not really. But I can’t be a part of such an organization and “look the other way”. I’m actually pissed because I feel like they hid their agenda from me. Had they been up front about this crap they would never have been able to recruit me in the first place.
Last June I was doing some consulting work at the new US embassy in Baghdad when all of the sudden the STATE DEPARTMENT staged a Gay pride parade and festival at the embassy. At the time the State department was paying me 180 grand a year. I left 2 weeks later in protest. Kodak was aware of that before they made their offer to me.
Guardian on December 11, 2009 at 5:15 PM
“Troll” is an Internet term with a history and a meaning. What you’re on about is something else. Ok then, resume high dudgeon.
She doesn’t fit the traditional definition of “troll” either.
Meaning what, exactly?
You have full control over the way you present information. The way you do it will have greater impact than what you present. Fear and shame are not useful for modifying this kind of behavior.
TheUnrepentantGeek on December 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Thank goodness Barry chose this guy for his “Safe School Czar”; I feel so much more comfortable knowing that our children are learning the proper way to stick their fist up their sex partner’s a$$.
Dopenstrange on December 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Basically liberals are disgusting? I went to the university with a bunch of these scumbags. I thought, they are going to be teaching students.
I’ll work 3 jobs so that my kids can be home schooled or put into private school with a good curriculum.
father on December 11, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I must say, this whole scandal is the sickest, lowest thing I’ve seen yet in “the age of Obama” – Jennings needs to be fired!
But this post did make me chuckle, at least. Reminded me of the photoshop of the Rosie the Riveter poster, clenching her fist in a rubber glove, illustrating Obamacare, if it passes. So sad. So vile. So…..typical of the times.
DINORight on December 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I wonder how Barry-O would feel if “fisting” was on the curriculum at Sidwell Friends?
Dopenstrange on December 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Garrett or Tapper should ask that question.
aikidoka on December 11, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Venusianvisitor had it right. We should not be debating, but acting. There have been posters( I think it was unrepentantgeek)on this site who are saying that having “panic attacks” is typically “christian” and not “mature”. Maybe the geek is a bigot and maybe a pervert, I don’t know. Because he sure wants to let the degenerate deviants; obama, jennings, et al. set the rules: Don’t be outraged because then you are a nazi terrorist, and by the way, we are the ones controlling the English language now. “Sex” is not the procreative act that God intended, but a series of abuses of the human body in ways as to disgust anyone with a modicum of decency. Add to the mix that this filth is being promoted to children, and outrage and swift action is the only mature response. There should be no measured debate here. A people who care about protecting their children’s sacred innocence would drag everyone of these brazen, in our CHILDREN’S FACES pedophiles out and tar and feather them before locking them up for the next fifty years.
And what have we become, that we allow them to dignify this revolting perversion with the term “sex”? They accomplished the same trick when they turned murder through abortion into “choice”. I for one will not call one of these atrocities, i.e., sucking, fisting, pissing, etc., “having sex” any more than I would call murdering unborn children “choice”. The battle of ideas is won with words, people. Don’t you remember obama told us so with his “just words” lecture?
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM
So you ‘real american’ teabaggers are now opposed to fisting? What a silly bunch.
simplesimon on December 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM
I take it that as you support the sexualization of children that you are also a pedophile.
Holger on December 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Fauxbama is a fister child.
BHO Jonestown on December 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I used to wonder whether you were sick or just stupid. Thanks to your last statement I wonder no more..
I can think of no better representative of the left on this blog than you. You are the perfect poster child of the disease known as Liberalism.
Guardian on December 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM
When did fear of shame stop being a powerful motivator? All coddling kids has ever done is make them unprepared for the realities of the world. Plus, you show a kid a pecker covered in syphilitic chancres and hopefully that’ll burn into his head forever.
darwin on December 11, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Interesting. It’s beyond dangerous and evil to allow High School children to pray during a sporting event or during school hours and must be stopped by ACLU letigation. The travesity of having children pray is beyond comprehension we must be vigor and energy and money to oppose it.
I have personal experience of the HORRIFIC AGHAST Leftists have to the extent that the ACLU sued Murrieta Valley Unified School District because a religious organization created by students was NOT allowed to have an adult supervisor because that would be deemed State Sponsorship. So when the kids choose to pray around the flagpole BEFORE SCHOOL, and invited some teachers to join, the ACLU had to sue to stop those adults from participating in “teaching” kids to pray.
The school district found it offensive to allow those same religious groups to put up booths during school hours for a carnival that all school extra curricular clubs were invited to attended INCLUDING a Gay and Lesbian Group. No religious groups need apply, eh?
Yes, but it is EXTREMELY important for adults to teach your children the proper way to accomplish fetish pornographic techniques in case the opt to go to the Jenna Jamison School Of Sl ut and Wh0re Media Broadcasting. There really is no other beneficial purpose of this curriculum. We ALL learn it at some point much better on our own without professional instruction. The only other point is to drum up business for Planned Parenthood for it’s eradicating of sort of kind heart like sounds and masses of unimportant non-baby type human cells procedures.
/wish I was being sarcarstic!!
Sultry Beauty on December 11, 2009 at 5:54 PM
How do you type with just one hand so effectively? And how do you clean the keys after you finish reading your own posts? And why don’t you find a girl friend?…wait, the last question we all have the answer too…
right2bright on December 11, 2009 at 5:55 PM
In a town in Kansas last week, an organization named Big Brothers and Big sisters had a gay mentor molest his charge. This is the risk of allowing gays in scouts and big brother activities. I suspect they can sue the Big Brothers for milollions and shut this down.
This homosexuality is dangerous to our children
seven on December 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Guardian on December 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM
I’m in Rochester too. Guess it’s time to turn the heat up on Kodak! Poor George, what would he think?
NYconservative on December 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM
The disease is spreading, race fan. Better move to Alaska while you can!
simplesimon on December 11, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Hello?
AnninCA on December 11, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Wow, way odd. I assumed I was “kicked.”
AnninCA on December 11, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Can’t stop laughing.
Liberalism is on the verge of an Electoral catastrophe.
Holger on December 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Keep laughing, race fan. The 2nd Amendment is next! Time to hide your guns and bottle your urine!
simplesimon on December 11, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Finally- I can post a couple of photoshops on this subject at HotAir!
Here’s the fearless (and he must be- sheesh!) leader I now refer to as Mister Fister, in what should be his official portrait. And,
here’s Mister Fister’s new product endorsement.
BKeyser on December 11, 2009 at 6:03 PM
How will you protect your sweat shop of illegal workers if they take guns away? You’ll have to pay legitimate wages to your nut waxers and massagers.
darwin on December 11, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Wow, I guess Liberalism really is a mental disorder.
Holger on December 11, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Hi
darwin on December 11, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Fear and shame are not useful for modifying this kind of behavior.
TheUnrepentantGeek on December 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Hello. A person is Naturally fearful and ashamed of someone putting a fist up their ar$e.
This is a work of our inborn conscience and sense of right and wrong. It helps us stay away from situations and people that can do us serious bodily or moral harm.
I remember when I first heard about it several years ago. As an adult, I couldn’t get my mind around it. Just hearing about it was shocking and sickening. Children should never have to lose the precious few years of innocence they have and be mentally traumatized by sexualization, and perverted sexualization at that, unless their parents aren’t doing their jobs and protecting their tender years. Teens should be taught by their parents the proper MORALITY of the GIFT of sex, and be given the ability to recognize and judge the sick acts when they inevitably are exposed to them as they find their way in our sick culture. The more mature teens who have the calling and drive, can even become defenders of their peers against these pedophiles who seek to recruit them and their younger bretheren.
All of these pedophiles count on conservatives natural “decency” and “civility” while they plan the most indecent and uncivil horrors for our children. If we can’t take the gloves off now, in defense of these children, then it’s over. And I mean take it to the top. Obama brought Jennings in, Obama is the one who should take all the heat and should be dragged out into the street along with the rest of the degenerates he has installed in the highest levels of power. If the courts won’t do it, and the Congress won’t do it, then the people must do it. Just as the leftists always say, “do it for the children”.
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Not safe for work? Yet it’s taught in our schools?
Another thing I have been seeing first hand since I’ve been back teaching, is training for teachers that pushes the communist mindset. Yeah, I know, no big surprise. But to actually see it first hand instead of just reading about it is very eye opening. There are a lot of trainings on group think. Putting the desires of the group above the desires of the individual. Getting students to think as a group, using the word “system” and system think and the importance of the system above any one person. (because system sounds more acceptable than commune).
Here is an interesting quote from a teacher training I attended. “Individual teacher contributions are not the wellspring of successful schools. The source of improvement is always from the system, teachers working together for a common goal.”
An underlying communist philosophy has been laid in stone within our school system. That philosophy is meant to produce an individual who will have the mindset of a socialist without ever even knowing it. The ideal of the rugged individualist is gone.
JellyToast on December 11, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Great comment … and very true.
darwin on December 11, 2009 at 6:09 PM
H
Nut waxers? Is that something that you ‘real americans’ engage in when there is no nascar to watch? Teabaggers is funny folk!
simplesimon on December 11, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Not really. The natural state of man is free. Marxism is unnatural and has to be imposed through great effort and subversion. You don’t have to impose freedom. It’s much easier to break away from Marxism than it is to impose it.
darwin on December 11, 2009 at 6:13 PM
a hard rain’s gonna fall!
“Let’s Roll”
On Watch on December 11, 2009 at 6:15 PM
No, that’s your business. You cater to the metrosexual crowd … waxing nuts. Remember? You wanted to import immigrants so you wouldn’t have to pay fair wages.
Say … is AP a client?
darwin on December 11, 2009 at 6:16 PM
This, by contrast with earlier examples, is a troll. He’s not trying to engage. He just wants to make you mad. He thinks he’s hilarious.
It’s fun to trade insults with them or mock them, but you’re not going to get into a serious discussion about the issues unless you manage to snag one of their insecurities. You’ll know you’ve done it when you get a string of barely articulate insults followed by a bit of twisted non-logic.
TheUnrepentantGeek on December 11, 2009 at 6:18 PM
5 comment pages in and I’m sure it has all been said but I just wanted to add that I firmly believe that the bowels of Hades itself have been unleashed courtesy of the Obowma cult.
Urban Infidel on December 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Shame is learned. Fear, on the other hand, is instinct.
Ever seen a feral child? I have.
I remember when I first heard about it several years ago. As an adult, I couldn’t get my mind around it. Just hearing about it was shocking and sickening.
So it’s not your kink. Good for you. Huzzah.
We’re not talking about children. If you want to get in on a discussion either read the thread or don’t but in on a conversation you’re not paying attention to.
I agree. I also said the dude should be fired, but then you butted in without reading so you wouldn’t know that. Of course, the extent to which giving someone knowledge on a topic constitutes endorsement of the activity described is under debate.
I’d be a bit more careful with that label. Calling someone a pedophile sans evidence is and should be actionable. Do it too much and you’ll be doing exactly what leftists do with the “racism” charge. I’m not sure what you’re asserting we should do at the end. Are you endorsing vigilante violence?
TheUnrepentantGeek on December 11, 2009 at 6:27 PM
I called Congresswoman Betsy Markey’s (D, 4th, CO) office to ask if she knew about this and if she or anyone else was looking into it. All I could get out of her aide was “I’ll forward your concerns onto the congresswoman”. I even read the paragraph about the pre-schoolers to him. He didn’t seem even the least bit shocked and told me that it was the decision of the president to put whoever he saw fit into that position. He also told me that though, congress could look into he didn’t know if they would. That’s all I could get out of him.
boomer on December 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Faith in action. I love it.
Right now America is being fisted by the dhimmicrats. I don’t like how it feels.
Mojave Mark on December 11, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Recruiting other peoples children for deviant sexual behavior…
Who knew?
EscapeVelocity on December 11, 2009 at 7:01 PM
TheUnrepentantGeek on December 11, 2009 at 6:27 PM
You claim that inborn conscience is not a reality for human beings because you have “seen” a “feral” child somewhere. Brilliant. Don’t even know what to say to that non-starter.
You degrade my normal disgust at the perversion of fisting by telling me that, “it’s not my kink, huzzah, good for me.” Your creepy sarcasm shows your approval of fisting and other perversions as mere alternative “kinks”.
You say this thread is not about children. Excuse me, but the books and persversions that Jennings and obama are promoting are aimed directly at children. You need to stop telling others to butt out and try informing yourself of the facts at issue.
As far as the people taking action, there are many ways to do so nonviolently, so take your babyish accusations elsewhere.
And as for calling these people pedophiles, if this were the America of a few years ago, these purveryors of filth would be brought up on morals charges involving minors. Thank goodness many on this site have the brains not to “dialogue” with evil. They know we should just destroy it.
And oh yes, the pervs aren’t shy when it comes to labels, hmm, let’s see… nazi, terrorist, teabagger, un-american, racist, homophobe…whatever, geek, you are trying to play some kind of moderate game, but I believe that smartaleck comment you made about me being shocked by fisting is very telling about what dark things must really be squirming in your head. Your doublespeak in these threads only show that when children’s lives are in the balance, you seem to be on the side of the enemy of their souls.
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Sorry, we’re not letting you define the terms any more, oh Succorer of Sodomists – you and your cronies are trolls here as I use the term. I wish I could
officially give your kind a more exact designation – propagandist of pedophilia fits better – but in the meantime, everybody here knows exactly what I mean.
And, by the way,we’re terrified of your threatened legal action. Terrified.” Did you know that truth is an absolute defense to such actions?
Venusian Visitor on December 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Oh, and p.s., shame is not learned. It is also part of something every human being is born with, a little thing we call a conscience. Perhaps you don’t think such a thing exists.
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 7:07 PM
This, by contrast with earlier examples, is a troll.
TheUnrepentantGeek on December 11, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Sorry, we’re not letting you define the terms any more, oh Succorer of Sodomists – you and your cronies are trolls here as I use the term. I wish I could
officially give your kind a more exact designation – propagandist of pedophilia fits better – but in the meantime, everybody here knows exactly what I mean.
And, by the way,we’re terrified of your threatened legal action. Terrified.” Did you know that truth is an absolute defense to such actions?
Venusian Visitor on December 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM
+1000
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 7:11 PM
waiting for geek’s pseudo-intellectual attempt to reply in 3, 2, 1,….
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Outstanding.
We as Conservatives need to draw a friggin line in the sand. This far we will compromise on issues and NO MORE. And when that line is crossed, and it WILL be crossed, our response should be withering and overwhelming.
This country is seriously broken.
For too long we have played nice. We have played by the rules and look where we are now. I am starting to worry that we might eventually “nice” our way out of a country if we don’t take a stand, show some backbone and start kicking some a$$.
Guardian on December 11, 2009 at 7:21 PM
You know what that proves? That sex ed does encourage promiscuity! Because people my age did not engage in the kind of behavior you describe. We had a straight up education about how babies are made and how pregnacy is prevented… after which condoms started showing up on the handles of doors.
But at least openly in the circles I ran in the stuff you talk about was not done.
That is such a condemnation of sex ed. A perfect argument against your case.
petunia on December 11, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Guardian on December 11, 2009 at 7:21 PM
You just gave me the slogan for all of us conservatives and teapartiers. Although it is not original, it sure should be our watchword and in our actions in taking our nation back from the degenerate left: SHOCK AND AWE (cue music to 1812 Overture)
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Yes. Conscience is certainly dimmed by confusing kids about what is moral and what is not. By the new definition it is more immoral to oppose this behavior than the disgusting emotionally damaging behavior!
These people have really figured out how to destroy our society. At every turn they win ground and we lose ground! Largely by using our own sense of fairness and compassion against us.
Of course we don’t want people beat up for being a bit off sexually… so now we have to teach that it is superior to have every sexual experience conceptualized in the minds of perverts!
petunia on December 11, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Cable TV, the Internet, divorce, and moms working have probably done more to increase the sexualization of young people.
dedalus on December 11, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Tom_Shipley on December 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM
And your graphic sex-ed, if in fact you did receive that kind of porn in class, has done nothing to stop you from speaking in a way that is degrading to you. Perhaps it even helps it along.
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Did you say “sans evidence”? Because this literature in and of itself is pedophilia! You have been slapped in the face with evidence!
And if someone comes near my girls or my grandkids with this crap… vigilante might be an honored word from then on out.
Sometimes you must stand for truth and right! No matter the consequence!
petunia on December 11, 2009 at 7:34 PM
petunia on December 11, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Yes, but they are coming for the children; it started with aborting them, and the ones they haven’t killed in body they are trying to kill in spirit. It’s time we went on the offense in a BIG way, and stop playing defense to this avalanche of filth.
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Oh, yoo-hoo geek, where are you……? Hurry up because I have to leave soon. Uh,oh. Just gave you an obama timeline.
tigerlily on December 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Cable and internet can be controlled. And my true belief from raising 6 kids… well I still have a (10 and 15 year old at home) but my experience is… that kids want to be good. They want to make you proud. You need to teach them how to rise above the world. To follow their best instincts. To fill their time with things that are worthy of them. I’m sure they made mistakes that I don’t know about but they are on very good paths. Two with great spouses and sweet little families.
And about working… I quit working when my oldest kids got to middle school. I realized they needed me more as teens than they did as toddlers. That was the best decision I ever made.
And really after I made it it seemed so obvious.
petunia on December 11, 2009 at 7:45 PM
I just turned 46 on Wednesday. I’m firmly convinced I was born on the wrong planet. Call me a pervert, but I don’t like the idea of somebody putting anything near my back door. I guess I’m just an old fuddy duddy now…..Good thing the lefties are setting the tone, I’m too boring maybe….
adamsmith on December 11, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Because mentoring is required with learned behavior.
AZ_Redneck on December 11, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Yes! This stuff proves that it is learned behavior! They were not born that way… they became that way thru mentoring! Adults taught them that experimentation, going along with something some pervert taught a classmate… was a sign they were forever gay. Just because the abuse started young doesn’t prove anything!
petunia on December 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM
I agree. The best thing you can give your kids is your time. Sex education may not be much required if children are given the tools to exercise good judgment. That said the desires and insecurities that hit teens can seem overwhelming, and constant input from wiser adults can make a big difference.
dedalus on December 11, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Thanks for posting this Ed. I am shocked that Kevin Jennings has not been fired and outraged that Arne Duncan supports him still. He should be on a perp watch list and is instead in the white house dept of education.
Will Barack and Michelle let Kevin Jennings teach sex ed to their daughters?
TN Mom on December 11, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Go ahead, leftis. Support this. Carry on. Double down. Keep digging.
Say hello to the Earth’s core on the way down.
“Liberalism is a mental disorder” was coined by an optimist.
Merovign on December 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM
This goes way beyond “corruption.” It’s just plain evil, and to appoint the creep who promoted this disgusting and hideous project to a White House position should be an impeachable offense. Of course, that won’t happen, but the President definitely should be held responsible. I’d love to see a reporter ask him how he’d like his own daughters to be included in such a “presentation.”
If there isn’t nationwide outrage, we will have forfeited God’s favor.
flataffect on December 11, 2009 at 10:12 PM
y’all know……… if this perv got anywhere near my kids …. I’d be hauled off, as my 12Ga lies there smokin …… just sayin
shiftwalker on December 11, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Hey simple, you Yanks are so predictable and intolerant. You are making Isaiah’s prediction come true, when he predicted in the latter days you will call evil good and good evil. You actually think anyone outside of NYC goes to the races every day? No wonder it took you yanks years to conquer the south.
garydt on December 11, 2009 at 11:53 PM
This one has got to go NOW! This is truly unbelieveable. If the MSM do not take this up them there is no hope for them.
Dire Straits on December 11, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Now, THAT would be a nice question for Gibbs to field.
Saltysam on December 12, 2009 at 1:46 AM
Ed Morrissey,
Thank you so much for writing about this issue. So many good people have been attempting to share this information with the public but the media simply ignored it.
It’s time Kevin Jennings is fired and his foul organization, Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is removed from all public schools. This organization has been sexualizing our children and indoctrinating them into homosexuality for years. According to GLSEN, it has programs in 4,000 of our public schools and they must be removed, along with Kevin Jennings.
Please stay on top of this story? Parents and grandparents must be made aware of this dangerous man and GLSEN, the organization he founded and headed, as Executive Director, until 2008.
sinsing on December 12, 2009 at 6:56 AM
I would much rather trade Van Jones for this guy. He should be run out on a rail.
But the Van Jones story only served to galvanize the media against following ANY subsequent legitimate story out of the right blogoshpere. They simply will ignore it because they don’t want any more bleeding by this administration. and the extent that they might report on it, it will have plenty of focus on the intolerance of those who are agitating for his removal, and downplay the substance of their accusations. Mark my words.
JeffWeimer on December 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Simplesimon,
You bring crudity to a new level. Will you go to any extreme to make a point in an argument? Have you ever considered that such remarks reflect on your own character rather than your intended targets?
zoyclem on December 12, 2009 at 9:45 AM
How offensive to Obamas plans…
Jeff2161 on December 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Everything seems to much. I went to DC to the 9/12 march. Got back from NYC supporting the protest about the “civilian trials” for terrorists.
Now this…OMG….I feel as if I am going under. That this country is going under….At every turn there is abuse, treason, and the lack of common sense is just breathtaking.
Please – with out cursing, sarcasim, making fun of…will someone please tell me what to do about this. I have several business, son’s, charitable work, family. Please, Please – can someone lay out what I can do? How can I get someones attention about this?
Queeniehill on December 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Death by impalement is the only suitable punishment for this kind of scum.
Slowburn on December 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM
In addition to sharing this information with all your friends and family members, you may want to contact the people at Mass Resistance. It is one of many organization, which has been fighting these issues for a very long time. Those who work there may be able to advise you. It is a good place to start.
EMAIL: http://www.massresistance.org/
CONTACT FORM: http://www.massresistance.org/contact_form.shtml
ADDRESS AND PHONE:
MassResistance
PO Box 1612, Waltham, MA 02454
781-890-6001
sinsing on December 12, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Judy Bloom is disgusting. She put in what I\’m sure she thought of as sly references to \”how babies are made\” in the Superfudge books, that are marketed to kindegarteners and 1st graders. And her books contain progressively more sexualized material as their targeted ages increase. Her \”Forever\” is filth, and is aimed straight at Jr. High aged girls.And teachers have these crappy books on shelves in their classrooms and have for many years. Gross…
funky chicken on December 12, 2009 at 1:37 PM
IDIOT. ASK YOUR FRIEND ANDERSON COOPER. HE’S THE ONE WHO USED THAT TERM. MAYBE HE’S AN EXPERT ON THAT. FIST YOUR OWN ASS!
AS FOR “TEA PARTY”, GO TO A LIBRARY AND READ SOMETHING ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!1
IDIOT!
TheAlamos on December 13, 2009 at 5:40 AM
Oh, heck let’s all just admit it. We all hate homosexuals and would rather that our government copy the laws now being enacted in Uganda that would at least criminalize homosexuality.
SC.Charlie on December 13, 2009 at 10:07 AM
This might be an interesting topic for Glenn Beck. Not sure how he could address it on TV though. He has a way of getting people fired at the WH.
i.e. Van Jones, Lizard Lady Dunn
Dasher on December 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM
People need to understand these people{GAYS} dont care about the welfare of children,because they dont have any.THEY JUST WANT TO RECRUIT.
widge8 on December 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Precisely. This is all about the recruitment of innocent children – our children.
sinsing on December 13, 2009 at 6:38 PM
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