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To: tejek who wrote (520588)	10/14/2009 12:53:39 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575176

IMO Jennings is a heterophobe. As I recall he's complained that schools promote heterosexuality: Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings Warns that Schools Promote Heterosexuality 10/8/2009 3:50:00 PM By Laurie Higgins, DSA Director -Illinois Family Institute In the video clip above, "Safe Schools Czar" and pederast-protector Kevin Jennings frets over the "aggressive" promotion of heterosexuality that takes place in public schools through the teaching of Romeo and Juliet. Jennings makes the disingenuous claim that parents are fearful that homosexuals "are after their kids." He implies that the chief concern of parents is that teachers will try to recruit children into the homosexual lifestyle, when in reality that is not the chief concern of most parents. Rather, the concern of many parents and other taxpayers is that homosexual activists are committed to changing students' views on the nature and morality of homosexuality. Homosexual activists both within and without our public schools are using public funds to indoctrinate other people's children with their radical, unproven beliefs that homosexuality is ontologically equivalent to race and that volitional homosexual acts are morally equivalent to heterosexual acts. Would Jennings deny that activist teachers and members of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network -- the organization he founded -- seek to change student views about homosexuality? We should all hope that if teachers are using curricula to reinforce beliefs about sexuality, they are using it to affirm only heterosexuality and more specifically heterosexuality within the confines of marriage. Yale University's motto Lux et veritas, which means light and truth, succinctly captures precisely what education should cultivate. It is an elementary truth evidenced by human anatomy and the biology of procreation that all humans are created heterosexual -- a truth from which Jennings would likely recoil. Similarly, we should recoil from the peculiar concern with Romeo and Juliet expressed by our Safe Schools Czar -- a man whose adult life has been shaped by a retreat from truth -- and instead demand that our schools always "aggressively" point students toward truth. Carl E. Olson, editor of IgnatiusInsight.com, said this about Jennings' ludicrous claim: "[W]hen the reading and studying of Shakespeare-who is one of the greatest writers in any language-is deemed part of a campaign to promote heterosexuality, you know that ideology has trumped reality and that the new barbarians are not only within the gates, they are the gatekeepers." ..... illinoisfamily.org