The American Principles Project has launched a new website—ExpelJennings.org—dedicated to ousting Kevin Jennings from the Department of Education. Robert George, the group’s founder, explains the radical agenda supported by Jennings:
Children don’t need to be learning about homosexual practices in elementary school. They don’t need to be learning about sexual practices of any type in elementary school. But Kevin Jennings, people who are associated with him, have been promoting just that. Jennings is the author of a foreword of a book called “Queering Elementary Education.” Well, we don’t need elementary education to be “queered.”
(Via: The Washington Indpendent)
October 5th, 2009 | 9:18 pm
As with Roman Polanski’s behavior, there seems no outrage that Mr. Jennings admits in writing that he advised a young student to “use a condom” after learning that he had been picked up by an older man in a public restroom. I lived in NYC during the height or depth of the AIDS epidemic and it was clear then that sex had become ruthlessly politicized — to a lethal extent. Does the President shares this world view? How else to explain the appointment. I live three miles from a city — Detroit — that seems to have abdicated responsibility for the health, safety, and education of its young. A moral freefall. (One girl’s school has a nearly 100% pregnancy rate according to the Free Press.) The South Side of Chicago (the “real Chicago” to quote the First Lady) seems little better. A minority cries out there as well — no one listens. Pres. Bush for all his failings believed deeply in the sanctity of life and the worth of the individual. He was not pitiless. How did we get this morally numb cynic in the Oval Office? I wish Prof. George well. But is it too late?
October 5th, 2009 | 10:27 pm
I fear we are about to be in the position of Paul Weyrich during the Clinton impeachment. He realized that concerns about grave sexual misbehavior are now suppressed by enough people in the establishment and in the populace that they have no purchase on the popular or elite mindset.
If Jennings stays and polygamy praiser Chai Feldblum’s EEOC nomination is confirmed, there is no “moral majority” of consequence. What then?
October 5th, 2009 | 10:52 pm
[...] Robert George Takes On Kevin Jennings Great article from Joe Carter over at First Thoughts. [...]
October 6th, 2009 | 2:48 am
I am a mother and former kindergarden teacher. As such, it’s my opinion that bringing teaching about homosexuality into a classroom of young children is a potential powder keg. This sort of thing not only robs children of their innocence, but it can plant seeds of sexual identity that may be false.
Earlier this year, Oprah featured young children who were “coming out” on the program! One little 9-year-old girl was questioned by a “professional” who asked when the little girl knew she was a lesbian. This confused child answered, “When I saw another girl in my class and I thought she was pretty.” It was a living example of what this sort of teaching can lead to.
What’s interesting is that this material is supposed to come into the elementary grades, before puberty. To me, that makes no sense whatsoever, and it sound like there is a hidden agenda that is uglier than the obvious one.
And, my last point is this: I think that authors who write these much needed articles should always include strategies for readers who want to do something. Reading such an article can truly stir up emotions. Having a concrete plan would make good use of those emotions.
I am very grateful to the writer for alerting us readers to this information, and I hope such articles will continue!
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