Posted on 02/08/2010 9:57:05 AM PST by ethical
Press Release February 7, 2010 Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings Favorite Book for Teens Too Lewd for Seattle Times
Newspaper says they can’t print quotes from the book because they are a family newspaper.
GLSEN founder Kevin Jennings has been “queering” public schools for years. Supposedly to help kids struggling with homosexual desires feel “safe”. But Jennings didn’t limit his target group to homosexual teens. He wanted to include what he calls “questioning youth”. GLSEN’s “ Try it. You just might like it.” Target group.
One of the books Jennings wants placed in every middle & high school is “Two Teenagers in Twenty”. In 1999 the Seattle chapter of GLSEN helped get that book in to Seattle Public Schools. Parents objected. At the time School Superintendent Joseph Olchefske disagreed with us. He found the book to “be absolutely consistent with an educational theme”. (Seattle Gay News February 1999)
The book is a collection of essays, purportedly written by homosexual teens. Under the guise of offering advice and encouragement several of them detail sexual encounters they enjoyed as children and teens, sometimes with adults! They are presented as fond memories, not as risky behavior or molestation. One writer tells the reader, “I often wonder how people can say it’s [homosexuality’s] wrong if they have never tried it.” (pg 61) Any “questioning youth” out there?
A concerned parent wrote an opinion piece for the Seattle Times challenging the wisdom of Olchefske’s decision. The best way to make her case was to simply repeat what was in the book. An editor at the Times said he’d print what she wrote but only if she removed the verbatim quotes she’d included from the book. Why? The Seattle Times was a family newspaper. The quotes were too lewd.
Attached are some of the verbatim quotes the Seattle Times found so offensive. Read them. Kevin Jennings is after your children. And it has nothing to do with safety.
Prepared by Parents and Teachers for Responsible Schools Press contact: Linda Jordan Seattle Washington
Quotes from ‘Two Teenagers in Twenty’ Kevin Jennings Wants This Book In Your Kids School (PTRS comments after each quote)
“We went to my place and went in, and this time Fred [an adult] was home. I asked him if Ray could stay the night; he said yes and then went into the bedroom. He came back with sheets and a small tube of KY stuck inside a towel. He also handed me the keys to a vacant apartment…Ray slipped his hand over onto my lap and gave me a look of genuine surprise. He then apologized for not being “well hung”. My lord, when I finally got his clothes off, I discovered he was hung like a Greek god.” (pg36) A 17 year old boy remembers the “support” he got from an adult as a younger teen. Why does Kevin Jennings want your teenager to get this kind of encouragement?
“I first became sexually active with my playmates…We were human beings who had no social inhibitions and were willing to explore our sexuality to it’s fullest extent. I managed to avoid contracting venereal disease through all my toddler and pre-teen years. From early childhood, my sex life continued fervently for years without disruption.” (pg138) Who did Jennings think this child was having sex with? Children don’t pass on venereal diseases, adults do. The message: Start having sex, the younger the better.
“…His name was Claude. I had met him once before and could tell he was gay. As he was cutting my hair, his crotch kept pushing itself into my shoulder. It was definitely a turn-on, and at that moment I came to the conclusion that I could be nothing but gay. Claude, where ever you are, thank you for that meaningful shove that helped me make up my mind who I am.” (pg30) Sounds like a grade B porno writer on loan from Hustler magazine, not a teenager. GLSEN has lots of connections to pornography.
“I had gone to a youth group, but the one I went to was full of hustlers and queens. So I began to go out to bars, porno houses for gays etc.” (pg89) Gay bars & porno houses are much “safer” than youth groups. Sounds like Jennings wants to make sure that older men have access to young boys.
‘I was thirteen and a freshman when I met my first lover, Carla…After a few months, the relationship began to get physical.” (pg58) Jennings thinks it’s great for this girl to fondly recall sex she had at 13 and offers it as encouragement to your teenager. Could heterosexuals get away with that in middle school?
“I had been having sex with a man since I was fourteen, but I thought it was just a phase…” (pg17) Later this boy determines (at 17) that he is homosexual. Hey Kevin, do you think the fact that a grown man had been molesting him since he was fourteen had anything to do with this conclusion? Naaaa. He was just mentoring him, right?
“The easiest thing to do is to get discouraged…Try to recapture how happy your gay feelings make you…or remember how it feels to be with your lover. If you haven’t had a lover yet, well then, you have something to look forward to.” (pg77) We assume that you’ve been getting it on but if you haven’t, well then, you’re missing out. And if this lifestyle makes you depressed have some sex to take your mind off it.
“But my first real affair was with a much older man…he shared his experience with me, and his love, and I grew.” (pg23) Right Kevin, what grew was the older man’s penis. This is another boy, 17, recalling the “guidance” he got from a “much older man” when he was a young teenager.
Prepared by: Parents and Teachers for Responsible Schools, Seattle WA Contact: Linda Jordan
There were exactly two short comments made in reference to my past postings and a wondering of how I could have survived for more than a decade on FR. The rest, far more, were about gays serving in the military and your inconsistencies in reasoning ability.
I guess we can add to that cluelessness, or a denial of reality if you can't count.
Your posting history bears out GB's comments.
You can survive 10 years holding the positions you do here by not posting frequently as you have(n't). It's not hard to fly under the radar when your last three pages of posting history go back well over a year.
But they don’t force them to house together.
You are missing the point completely.
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GLSEN founder Kevin Jennings has been “queering” public schools for years. Supposedly to help kids struggling with homosexual desires feel “safe”. But Jennings didn’t limit his target group to homosexual teens. He wanted to include what he calls “questioning youth”. GLSEN’s “ Try it. You just might like it.” Target group.
IOW, he's recruiting.
He doesn't need to bother with those who decided they are.
He's not going to bother with those who definitely aren't (not worth the risk of lawsuits from parents, no doubt).
So he goes after the ones who are uncertain and don't have good relationships with their parents and are not likely to complain to anyone. If they're starved for attention, they're going to be very vulnerable.
What scum he is, preying on them like that.
Apologies to scum......
Either as perpetrators or victims, this sounds unlikely. In any case it has been 50 years since John Murtagh was Chief Magistrate of the New York City Criminal Court.
Does a link make the post more legitimate? Just asking. I have not posted for a while until recently.
Yeah, it kind of does. It gives it more credibility for one thing.
It's expected that one provide a link so that people can go to the source document to look up more information if they want, instead of the having to do a google search to find it. There's a field for it in the page where you post the thread.
You can ask the mods to provide the link if you forget, or whatever.
BTW, it’s a great article and something that needs to be seen.
Thanks for posting it.
I did a quick google search and could not find the original article from the source you listed.
If you could find it again, you could post the link in the thread and alert the mods and ask them to add it.
“kids struggling with homosexual desires”
When you have a “kid struggling with homosexual desires” you should be making him safe from whoever has been molesting him.
What if nobody has been?
If nobody had been, he wouldn’t be having “homosexual desires” (more properly termed “a disordered compulsion to commit sodomy.”)
Excellent point.....
“As long as an individual breaks no law, that individual deserves the same freedom and rights as anyone else living without breaking the law.”
So, a severly decompensated, hallucinating, delusional schizophrenic should be able to, oh, say practice medicine? Pilot a passenger plane? Work in a biological warfare research facility?
Same-sex attraction disorder is a mental illness. As with any mental illness, those who suffer from it need not break a law before action can be taken.
Not just the military, but any position of responsibility, and any position in which the SSAD patient can become a role model, should be right out.
Well in this case the link was me and I do not have a website.
I do research and have had a bit of my research published on this issue. You can purchase Jennings “Respect for All” like i had to do if you want to verify for yourself. I have been very vocal about GLSEN and Jennings and the “books” he pushes. In my earlier post I give you the book titles and the page numbers. If you need further verification, and I don’t blame you, you can purchase the books. You can google the Seattle Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer, The New York Times, Seattle Gay News, GLSEN etc to verify that I have worked on this issue here in Seattle.
Day three. -sigh-
What positions are those metmom? Please, if I'm getting tossed under the bus for WrongThink, I really think I deserve to know. A list please, by issue category. With a bonus acknowledgement that this conversation has indeed devolved to be about me.
BTW, I do 'Get it'. This is a cultural change, and as such contains far more emotion than a normal everyday political issue. It consists of cultural mores of sexual and nudity, guaranteed to bring on a lively discussion.
I see.
What I’ve seen some people do in that case is put down *self* as the source.
You do want to be careful about compromising your screen name, though, if that’s a concern to you.
I don’t doubt what you posted and I don’t have any reason to. It was just an observation that that is one of the reasons for posting links.
Again, it’s a good thread and needs to be seen. Thanks for posting it.
Please keep up.
“Please keep up.”
Count your blessings. If I had read more carefully, I wouldn’t have been nearly as polite.
That said, I saw something I wanted to comment on, so I did. That’s what goes on here. And I think I’m quite up to date on that.
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