We now have the first member of Congress who has called on controversial "Safe Schools" Education Official Kevin Jennings to resign. More on the Jennings controversy here.
Congressman Steve King issued the following statement today:
“Kevin Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications and ethical standards to serve in a presidential administration. Despite serving as the ‘safe schools’ czar, Jennings has demonstrated a willingness to look the other way on sexual abuse. His life’s work has been the promotion of homosexuality, even in elementary schools, and he has demonstrated no qualifications to make students safer in our schools. Jennings is committed to the ‘safety’ of only a narrow portion of American students, while expressing disdain for religion and traditional values. President Obama should fire Kevin Jennings immediately.”
The Family Research Council is out with more on Jennings:
FRC has uncovered a series of op-eds that show Jennings's incredible hostility toward Christianity.
In at least two Huffington Post columns, Jennings attacks people of faith with complete and utter disdain. When the former director of GLSEN tried to implement a series of Gay Straight Alliances in classrooms back in 2007, Jennings described a Christian who fought the idea as having "not-yet-fully evolved views maybe because of his proximity to the Everglades (from whose ooze he may have recently climbed), [but] I can't dismiss them as the ravings of a single troglodyte. Instead, they represent a classic example of how right-wing extremists continually try to mislead the public about the nature and purpose of GSAs."
In another article, "Recruit, Recruit, Recruit!" Jennings called Christian students "hypocrites" and mocked the members of Young Life for trying to evangelize their friends. At one point in the column, Jennings says, "...[T]hey want everyone to have to believe the way they do." Ironically, that's what Jennings 's movement has been pushing for all along: forced acceptance! He and his activist friends want tolerance, but not for others.
The youth involved in the Jennings controversy is speaking out and says he was 16 (not 15) at the time he told Jennings about his sexual encounter with an older man. Whatever the case, Evangelical groups see that as just once incident in a much bigger underlying problem. Pushing a pro-homosexual agenda laced with "attacks" on people of faith is what is really at the heart of the matter. You know what? Across the country, tens of millions of people are concerned about that too.