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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 29, 2009

Another despicable czar exposé… just a few weeks after the scandal of Van Jones, we now have Kevin Jennings, Pres. Obama’s “safe schools” czar.

Unfathomable behavior from someone who is supposedly employed by our White House and is in charge of keeping school children safe. Keeping them safe would most definitely include reporting sexual predators and pedophiles. Jennings doesn’t see it that way, though, at least in his writings.

“Safe schools czar” is a grotesque misnomer, a twisted, ugly irony in the case of Mr. Jennings.

FOX News, Critics Assail Obama’s ‘Safe Schools’ Czar, Say He’s Wrong Man for the Job:

President Obama’s “safe schools czar” is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.

Conservatives are up in arms about the appointment of Kevin Jennings, Obama’s director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, saying he is too radical for the job.

Jennings was appointed to the position largely because of his longtime record of working to end bullying and discrimination in schools. In 1990, as a teacher in Massachusetts, he founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which now has over 40 chapters at schools nationwide. He has also published six books on gay rights and education, including one that describes his own experiences as a closeted gay student.

The OSDFS was created by the Bush administration in 2002. According to its Web site, one of its primary functions is to “provide financial assistance for drug and violence prevention activities and activities that promote the health and well being of students in elementary and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education.”

Jennings’ critics say he fits only half the bill, if that.

“Jennings was obviously chosen for this job because of the safe schools aspect… defining ’safe schools’ narrowly in terms of ’safe for homosexuality’,” Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, told FOXNews.com.

“But at least half of the job involves creating drug-free schools, and we’ve not been offered any evidence about what qualifications Jennings has for promoting drug-free schools.”

Jennings’ detractors note that he made four references to his personal drug abuse in his 2007 autobiography, “Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son: A Memoir.” On page 103, discussing his high school years in Hawaii in the early 1980s, Jennings wrote:

“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.”

Sprigg said that quote is particularly unacceptable for someone who has been named to lead America’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.

“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.”

Rush Limbaugh – Kevin Jennings, Obama’s “Safe Schools” Czar… Also, ObamaCare Protests & Club Gitmo | September 2009

FOX News: Kevin Jennings – Czar Of Safe Schools – Promotes Homosexuality

From Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Kevin Jennings – latest Obama Safe School Czar hid pedophilia from authorities:

Another day, another radical whackjob Obama Czar appointed. This one, Kevin Jennings, is a former teacher and now the “Safe Schools Czar”. Jennings was appointed to the position mainly because of his record of working to end bullying and discrimination in schools. That’s cool, so what’s the problem? Well I’d say advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, past drug abuse, contempt for religion are a bit troubling. But maybe the most disturbing about this whackjob is a detailed incident in which Kevin Jennings did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men. Do not take this to mean Jennings was the man involved, but the fact he did not report this incident is absolutely disgusting…

UPDATE, September, October, November, December 2009: Funny what negative press will do, 20-some-odd years after the fact… but Jennings still has his job… from Michelle Malkin: Safe Schools czar now “regrets” failure to report child predator and Now it’s “anti-gay” to describe safe school czar’s failures
Gateway Pundit: Fistgate VIII: Safe School’s Czar Jennings’ Org Promoted Book Detailing Gay Sex Between First Graders and Fistgate: Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s 2000 Conference Promoted “Fisting” to 14 Year-Olds (audio-video) and Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Expresses Regret for Not Reporting Statutory Rape

More czar reading:
Nice Deb: Zombie Takes Media Matters To Task On “Safe School Czar” Kevin Jennings
Jim Hoft, Big Government: Fistgate: Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s 2000 Conference Promoted ‘Fisting’ to 14 Year-olds
Michelle Malkin: Czar backlash builds: Democrat calls for removal and So much for the Greatest Transition in World History and Castro Watch: Walking Commie corpse appears on TV and Culture of Corruption: Czars of the Obama Underworld and The pay czar’s power grab and Indoctrination Watch: How your tax dollars are training students to be union organizers and Obama summons his army: “This is the moment our movement was built for.” and The pay czar’s power grab and Support the Czar Accountability and Reform Act of 2009 and Meet the FCC Diversity Czar
Moonbattery: Safe Schools Czar Sez: “Killing someone who calls you a faggot is not aberrant behavior.”
Charles Winecoff, Big Hollywood: In Defense of Obama’s Safe School Czar (Sort Of) – or I Was A Teenage ‘Lolito’
Citizen Wells: Cass Sunstein, Obama Czar, Information and Regulatory Affairs, White House office, Sunstein quotes, US Constitution, Sunstein radical ideas
Gateway Pundit: Sean Hannity & Michelle Malkin Break Media Silence on Fistgate & Obama’s Dangerous Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings (Video) and Audio: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Admits Hiding Pedophilia From Officials

JammieWearingFool: Another Great Vetting Job: Obama’s Car Czar Under SEC Investigation
Gateway Pundit: Sing It… Van Jones Cut Nasty Hate-Filled Music Album, Too! (Video) …Update: Album Cover Found!
The Underground Conservative: More Vetting Problems Ahead?
Right Voices: The White House Is So Desperate They Got Brokow To Try And Cover For Them
Washington Post: White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism
Left, Right, and Centered: Imagine What The Press Would Do With This Under W
Robert Stacy McCain, American Spectator: Van Jones: Victim of Right-Wing ‘Terrorists’?
NewsBusters: Jones Resigns Over What? and NYTs’ Friedman Was Big Fan of Green Job Czar Jones in Oct 2007
Verum Serum: CBS: Was VS Post the Last Straw for Van Jones?
Power Line: Lights Out for Van Jones

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