Family Research Council launches campaign to boot Kevin Jennings from Dept of Ed.

Tony Perkins and his homo-haters at the Family Research Council are so incensed that former president of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, Kevin Jennings, has been appointed to serve as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the Dept. of Education, that the org has launched a website, www.stopjennings.org to:

Educate the American people about how Jennings' dangerous views make him unfit to protect our nation's schoolchildren. "Kevin Jennings' record shows he has neither the temperament nor the ethical standards needed for public service," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. "His history demonstrates disregard for our obligations to safeguard the health and well being of the student population. He is unfit for the post to which he's been assigned, and Secretary Duncan should withdraw his appointment at once."

In FRC's talking point document, it cites the usual homostraw man nonsense:

Jennings and the organization he founded have been the leaders in promoting a pro-homosexual agenda in America's schools, beginning in kindergarten. His positions are extreme and narrow-minded, his rhetoric harsh and hate-filled, and his qualifications and ethical standards questionable at best. For all these reasons, Family Research Council has called upon Education Secretary Arne Duncan to withdraw Jennings' appointment. Here are some key reasons why we believe Kevin Jennings is unfit for public service.

1) Jennings' and GLSEN's concept of "safe schools" means special protections for privileged groups (especially homosexuals), rather than safety for all.

Undoubtedly the key reason why Jennings was appointed was because of GLSEN's long-standing commitment to what they call "safe schools." GLSEN has published "Model State Anti-Bullying & Anti-Harrasment Legislation." However, it protects against "harassment" only on the basis of "distinguishing characteristics" such as "race, color, national origin, sex, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion." It does not even include the category which GLSEN itself has identified as the most common grounds for harassment: "the way they look or their body size." Why not define "harassment" and "bullying" on the basis of the nature of the actual conduct, rather than the characteristics of the victim?

It goes on and on in that vein. And below the fold, the ad FRC plans to run.


http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/11774/family-research-council-launches-campaign-to-boot-kevin-jennings-from-dept-of-ed

sexual orientation. These bigots at the FRC want to ensure that there is another generation of hateful assholes to carry on their agenda of hate discrimination and bigotry.

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It seems sad that so many *Christian* groups are obsessed with engaging in perpetual campaigns for the "right" to foment hatred of God's children.