Is Obama's Safe School Czar safe?
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Is Obama's Safe School Czar safe?
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1.) It is fox news so......
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Don’t see what is wrong with that. It isn’t like he was trying to make straight people gay, just fighting for equal rights. Same thing happened in the 60's I believe with another group.
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And most politicians lie about it so I don’t see what is wrong with this unless he was writing about it in a positive light. Maybe he wrote about how he struggled with it and it wasn’t the answer.
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Freedom of speech, and many people share the view of contempt for religion. What the article fails to specify is if he was criticizing something specific (catholic priests maybe) or if he is anti-religion. I think it is the former because they would have said anti-religion if he was.
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circumstances? and if it played out as easy as it seems then he would have been charged by police which he obviously was not.
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Some radical he is, I wouldn’t want my kids to have a school were bullying and discrimination was rampant.
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President Obama's "safe schools czar" is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools,
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written about his past drug abuse,
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expressed his contempt for religion
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and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.
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Jennings was appointed to the position largely because of his longtime record of working to end bullying and discrimination in schools.
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1.) It is fox news so......
2.)
Don’t see what is wrong with that. It isn’t like he was trying to make straight people gay, just fighting for equal rights. Same thing happened in the 60's I believe with another group.
3.) And most politicians lie about it so I don’t see what is wrong with this unless he was writing about it in a positive light. Maybe he wrote about how he struggled with it and it wasn’t the answer.
4.) Freedom of speech, and many people share the view of contempt for religion. What the article fails to specify is if he was criticizing something specific (catholic priests maybe) or if he is anti-religion. I think it is the former because they would have said anti-religion if he was.
5.) circumstances? and if it played out as easy as it seems then he would have been charged by police which he obviously was not.
6.) Some radical he is, I wouldn’t want my kids to have a school were bullying and discrimination was rampant.
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Don’t see what is wrong with that. It isn’t like he was trying to make straight people gay, just fighting for equal rights. Same thing happened in the 60's I believe with another group.
3.) And most politicians lie about it so I don’t see what is wrong with this unless he was writing about it in a positive light. Maybe he wrote about how he struggled with it and it wasn’t the answer.
4.) Freedom of speech, and many people share the view of contempt for religion. What the article fails to specify is if he was criticizing something specific (catholic priests maybe) or if he is anti-religion. I think it is the former because they would have said anti-religion if he was.
5.) circumstances? and if it played out as easy as it seems then he would have been charged by police which he obviously was not.
6.) Some radical he is, I wouldn’t want my kids to have a school were bullying and discrimination was rampant.
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The group Jennings founded has also been accused of promoting homosexuality in schools. At a GLSEN conference in 2000, co-sponsored with the Massachusetts Department of Education, the group landed in hot water when it was revealed that it had included an educational seminar for kids that graphically described some unorthodox sex techniques.
A state official who spoke to teens at the conference said:
"Fisting (forcing one's entire hand into another person's rectum or vagina) often gets a bad rap....[It's] an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with...[and] to put you into an exploratory mode."
A state official who spoke to teens at the conference said:
"Fisting (forcing one's entire hand into another person's rectum or vagina) often gets a bad rap....[It's] an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with...[and] to put you into an exploratory mode."
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"I got stoned more often and went out to the beach at Bellows, overlooking Honolulu Harbor and the lights of the city, to drink with my buddies on Friday and Saturday nights, spending hours watching the planes take off and land at the airport, which is actually quite fascinating when you are drunk and stoned."
"It would be nice to hear from Mr. Jennings ... that he regrets the drug use he engaged in when he was in school," Sprigg said. "But in this autobiography, which Mr. Jennings wrote only recently, he never expresses any regret about his youthful drug use."
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Another controversy from Jennings' past concerns an account in his 1994 book, "One Teacher In 10," about how, as a teacher, he knew a high school sophomore named Brewster who was "involved" with an "older man":
"Out spilled a story about his involvement with an older man he had met in Boston. I listened, sympathized, and offered advice. He 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."
The account led Diane Lenning, head of the National Education Association's Republican Educators Caucus, to criticize Jennings in 2004 for not alerting school and state authorities about the boy's situation, calling Jennings' failure to do so an "unethical practice."
Jennings threatened to sue Lenning for libel, saying she had no evidence that he knew the student in question was sexually active, or that he failed to report the situation.
But a professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, Warren Throckmorton, has produced an audio recording of a speech Jennings gave in 2000 at a GLSEN rally in Iowa, in which Jennings made it clear that he believed the student was sexually active:
"I said, 'What were you doing in Boston on a school night, Brewster?' He got very quiet, and he finally looked at me and said, 'Well I met someone in the bus station bathroom and I went home with him.' High school sophomore, 15 years old' I looked at Brewster and said, 'You know, I hope you knew to use a condom.'"
"Out spilled a story about his involvement with an older man he had met in Boston. I listened, sympathized, and offered advice. He 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."
The account led Diane Lenning, head of the National Education Association's Republican Educators Caucus, to criticize Jennings in 2004 for not alerting school and state authorities about the boy's situation, calling Jennings' failure to do so an "unethical practice."
Jennings threatened to sue Lenning for libel, saying she had no evidence that he knew the student in question was sexually active, or that he failed to report the situation.
But a professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, Warren Throckmorton, has produced an audio recording of a speech Jennings gave in 2000 at a GLSEN rally in Iowa, in which Jennings made it clear that he believed the student was sexually active:
"I said, 'What were you doing in Boston on a school night, Brewster?' He got very quiet, and he finally looked at me and said, 'Well I met someone in the bus station bathroom and I went home with him.' High school sophomore, 15 years old' I looked at Brewster and said, 'You know, I hope you knew to use a condom.'"