I doubt the kid was 16 and even if he were it was still lousy judgment on Jennings part. He was right to apologize, not because people are "gunning for him" but because he was wrong.
Now teachers at least up here get special training on how to deal with sexual issues. The fact he didn't get training back then is symptomatic of the mores imposed by your America, not mine.
Apparently teachers are now trained that sexual conduct with adults met in bathrooms is fine ... is that the case? If not why the defense of Jennings?
If I remember corrected, he complimented a book the guy read.......and not NAMBLA. AMIRITE?
No, he said he was a hero of his for all his pro-gay advocacy not simply one of his books. The thing is Hay is infamous for being a NAMBLA supporter.
The kid says he didn't have sex.
Unbelievable if in fact he has claimed that. Just shows the kid is lying to protect Jennings. What do you think those folks meet for?
Maybe Jennings misunderstood the kid......or Jennings was worried the kid eventually would have sex. So he was advising him to use protection. Very practical....very logical.
You realize condoms aren't exactly 100% effective .... ueven sing a rubber is like playing russian roulette. Not logical at all. Jennings thought a 15 yo was sexually active with a man he met in a bus station bathroom and didn't discourage the kid .... Jennings said the kid continued to share other "adventures" with him over the year:
"As the fall wore on, Robertson continued to drop by my office to chat, often updating me on his latest 'adventures.' Sometimes these startled me..."
Apparently the kid was doing things that startled an adult gay like Jennings .... whatta you think he was doing .... holding someone's hand, smooching?
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Media Matters Fails In Attempt To Defend Kevin Jennings
I'd say this story pretty much highlights a lack of critical logic within mainstream liberalism. Media Media defends Obama's Safe School czar Kevin Jennings by producing alleged proof that the boy was 16 at the time. It's what they don't report that's the real problem.
Media Matters for America has exclusively obtained the Massachusetts drivers' license of the student confirming that at the time of the incident, he was at least sixteen years of age -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts.
Putting aside the notion that it seems it was Jennings himself who asserted the boy was 15, what exactly was the nature of this involvement? It wasn't a "relationship". It was a one night stand in a men's restroom after which it seems the older man didn't return the student's phone calls. Whether the student was straight or gay, does anyone really believe that a 15, or 16 year old student involved in restroom sex with total strangers is the bar we want to set for safe and acceptable behavior in our public schools?
I think this shows modern liberals DO consider bathroom sex with adults is just hunkydory.
Give me a break. Media Matters might have done better to not engage this issue at all.
According to Mr. Jennings' own description in a new audiotape discovered by Fox News, the 15-year-old boy met the "older man" in a "bus station bathroom" and was taken to the older man's home that night. When some details about the case became public, Mr. Jennings threatened to sue another teacher who called his failure to report the statutory rape "unethical." Mr. Jennings' defenders asserted that there was no evidence that he was aware the student had sex with the older man.
However, the new audiotape contradicts this claim. In 2000, Mr. Jennings gave a talk to the Iowa chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, an advocacy group that promotes homosexuality in schools. On the tape, Mr. Jennings recollected that he told the student to make sure "to use a condom" when he was with the older man. That he actively encouraged the relationship is reinforced by Mr. Jennings' own description in his 1994 book, "One Teacher in 10." In that account, the teacher boasts how he allayed the student's concerns about the relationship to such a degree that the 15-year-old "left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on the campus for the next two years, until he graduated."
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On page 162, Jennings writes: "Robertson soon told me the tale, about someone he'd met in Boston, how he thought he loved him, how heartbroken he was when his calls never got returned..."
On page 169, he continues: "As the fall wore on, Robertson continued to drop by my office to chat, often updating me on his latest 'adventures.' Sometimes these startled me, and I began to underline the importance of safe sex to him. One day he snapped back, 'Why should I use a condom? My life isn't worth saving anyway.'"
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