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Throughout the FistGate series of revelations, Kevin Jennings’ defenders have often insisted that, while Jenning’s organization, GLSEN, may have sponsored, featured or promoted material that was inappropriate for young children, Jennings himself was unaware of these actions. (See here, for just one example.)
But, today we learn that Jennings himself promoted sexually explicit and inappropriate books to 7th graders. Mass Resistance reported that Kevin Jennings was promoting the porn book, Reflections of a Rock Lobster: Growing Up Gay and other titles to kids for years:
Here’s proof that Kevin Jennings was certainly aware that his organization, GLSEN, recommended porn books for teens. He had recommended them himself in his 1994 high school reader Becoming Visible (published by porn publisher Alyson Books). On p. 278 in his Questions/Activities section for Chapter 17, he wrote:
15. Other resources for reading are Bennett Singer’s Growing Up Gay, Ann Heron’sOne Teenager in Ten: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth, Aaron Frick’sReflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story of Growing Up Gay, and Paul Monette’sBecoming a Man. Films include Robert King’s The Disco Yearsand Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, based on Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical novel.
These questionable books (haven’t looked at the films yet…) have been described byLinda Harvey in 2002 (also here), NARTH (late 1990s), and more recently atGateway Pundit/BigGovernment.com (Dec. 2009).
For those new to this story, here is an excerpt from the book, Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story of Growing Up Gay, again deemed suitable for 7th Graders, by Kevin Jennings:
Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story About Growing up Gay
This book can be purchased at the GLSEN website.
This book covers group sex between first graders and makes it sound completely normal.
Reflections of a Rock Lobster – Page 13
(At the age of six, the author frequently performed fellatio on his fellow first-graders in the school restroom, part of a “busy homosexual childhood.”)
My sexual exploits with my neighborhood playmates continued. I lived a busy homosexual childhood, somehow managing to avoid venereal disease through all my toddler years. By first grade I was sexually active with many friends. In fact, a small group of us regularly met in the grammar school lavatory to perform fellatio on one another. A typical week’s schedule would be Aaron and Michael on Monday during lunch; Michael and Johnny on Tuesday after school; Fred and Timmy at noon Wednesday; Aaron and Timmy after school on Thursday. None of us ever got caught, but we never worried about it anyway. We all understood that what we were doing was not to be discussed freely with adults but we viewed it as a fun sort of confidential activity. None of us had any guilty feelings about it; we figured everyone did it. Why shouldn’t they?
Today Kevin Jennings is Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar.
There’s much more to come.