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		<title>Good Riddance&#8230;Obama&#8217;s Radical Safe Schools Czar Hits the Skids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hoft</dc:creator>
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In March 2000 the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) organization of Massachusetts held its 10 Year Anniversary GLSEN/Boston conference at Tufts University. This conference was fully supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Safe Schools Program, the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and some of the presenters even received federal money.
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In March 2000 the <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html">Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network</a> (GLSEN) organization of Massachusetts held its 10 Year Anniversary GLSEN/Boston conference at Tufts University. This conference was fully supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Safe Schools Program, the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and some of the presenters even received federal money.</p>
<p>During the 2000 conference, workshop leaders <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_queering_the_schools.html">led</a> a “youth only, ages 14-21″ session that offered <a href="../2009/12/fistgate-barack-obamas-safe-schools-czar-promoted-fisting-to-14-year-olds/">lessons<br />
in “fisting”</a> a dangerous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisting">sexual practice</a>. During the same workshop an activist asked 14 year-old students, “Spit or swallow?… Is it rude?” The unbelievable audio clip is posted <a href="../2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-schools-czars-question-to-14-year-olds-spit-vs-swallow-is-it-rude-audio-video/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Barack Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings is the founder of GLSEN. He was paid <a href="http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2009/12/sexualizing-children-is-lucrative-jennings-earned-270000-00-in-2007//">$273,573.96</a> as its executive director in 2007. Jennings was the keynote speaker at the 2000 GLSEN conference.</p>
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Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Safe Schools Czar&#8221; was the keynote speaker at the GLSEN/Boston Conference at Tufts University in 2000. High school students at the conference learned about fisting and watersports from the GLSEN activists. Jennings is seen here holding the conference program. (Via <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/index.html">Mass Resistance</a>)</p>
<p>Unfortunately for GLSEN, undercover journalists with <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/tape01.html">Mass Resistance</a> recorded these outrageous sessions at Tufts University. The audio was later leaked to a local radio station. This created <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fistgate">such an uproar</a> that GLSEN<br />
leaders were forced to apologize for their disgusting behavior.</p>
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<p>Despite the controversy, Barack Obama&#8217;s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization did nothing to clean up their act. In fact in 2001 activists <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/fistgate-ii-high-school-students-given-fisting-kits-at-kevin-jennings-glsen-conference/">handed out “fisting kits”</a> to the children and teachers who attended the GLSEN conference.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not all. The children who attended Kevin Jennnings&#8217; GLSEN 2005 Conference also left with their own <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/black_book/black_book_inside.html">&#8220;Little Black Book &#8211; Queer in the 21st Century&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p>This book exposes the young teens to&#8211;<strong>Rimming &#8211; Fisting &#8211; Water Sports (Pi$$ Play) &#8211; Toys</strong><br />
It&#8217;s what every teen needs to know&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9743" title="fistgate pamphlet" src="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/fistgate-pamphlet-300x218.jpg" alt="fistgate pamphlet" width="300" height="218" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The page titled &#8220;How safe is dat?&#8221; introduces young teens to fisting, rimming, and watersports (pi$$ing on your partner).  Shouldn&#8217;t every teen know this?</p>
<p>After a two year stint, Obama&#8217;s Safe School&#8217;s czar Kevin Jennings has resigned from his position with the Obama Administration.</p>
<p>Sean Hannity reported on Jennings&#8217; departure last night on his show.<br />
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<p>Good riddance, Kevin Jennings.</p>
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		<title>Robot Theater: Kevin Jennings Job Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Gutfeld</dc:creator>
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		<title>Fistgate XIV: Jennings Personally Pushed Books That Encouraged Children to Meet Adults at Gay Bars For Sex</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Hoft</dc:creator>
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If you thought that we were through writing about Barack Obama&#8217;s dangerous Safe Schools Czar because it&#8217;s a new year you would be wrong. This story just gets freakier and weirder and the fact that the mainstream media completely ignores this dangerous man working in the Office of Safe and Drug-free Schools makes [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you thought that we were through writing about Barack Obama&#8217;s dangerous Safe Schools Czar because it&#8217;s a new year you would be wrong. This story just gets freakier and weirder and the fact that the mainstream media completely ignores this dangerous man working in the <a href="http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/index.html">Office of Safe and Drug-free Schools</a> makes the story even more scandalous. You&#8217;d think the AP could peel away <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/17/ap-turns-heads-devoting-reporters-palin-book-fact-check/">a few of its reporters</a> from <em>Going Rogue</em> to investigate this radical czar. This avoidance by the democratic-media complex won&#8217;t keep us from reporting the truth. Our goal of protecting children is greater than our desire to protect a political party.</p>
<p>Kevin Jennings&#8217; was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (<a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html">GLSEN</a>) until he left his post in 2008. GLSEN maintains a <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/index.html?state=tools&amp;type=tools">recommended reading list of books</a> for children that the radical organization believes all kids should be reading. The books on the list <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-schools-czar-is-promoting-porn-in-the-classroom-kevin-jennings-and-the-glsen-reading-list/">promote</a> all kinds of radical ideas from child rape, to first graders having sex to the joys of prostitution.</p>
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<p>Recently it was discovered that these books were not only on GLSEN&#8217;s reading list but that Kevin Jennings personally promoted several of these books during his career. One of the books he promoted encouraged children to go to gay bars for sex with adults to see if they like it.<br />
<a href="http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2009/12/safe-schools-czar-kevin-jennings.html">Mass Resistance Blog</a> reported:</p>
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<blockquote><p>Jennings had recommended these books himself in his 1994 high school reader <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Visible-Lesbian-History-Students/dp/1555832547">Becoming Visible</a></em> (published by <a href="http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2009/10/jennings-sought-out-by-porn-publisher.html">porn publisher Alyson Books</a>). On p. 278 in his Questions/Activities section for Chapter 17, he wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>15. Other resources for reading are Bennett Singer’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Gay-Lesbian-Anthology/dp/1565841034">Growing Up Gay</a></em>, Ann Heron’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Teenager-Ten-Ann-Heron/dp/0932870260">One Teenager in Ten: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth</a></em>, Aaron Frick’s <em><a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/fistgate-viii-safe-schools-czar-jennings-org-promoted-book-detailing-gay-sex-between-first-graders/">Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story of Growing Up Gay</a></em>, and Paul Monette’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Man-Half-Life-Story/dp/0062507249">Becoming a Man</a></em>. Films include Robert King’s <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101737/plotsummary">The Disco Years</a></em> and <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdpe-rkYVgQ">Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</a></em>, based on Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical novel.</p></blockquote>
<p>These questionable books (haven’t looked at the films yet…) have been described by <a href="http://www.missionamerica.com/oldagenda26.php">Linda Harvey in 2002</a> (also <a href="http://www.missionamerica.com/stoppflag1.php">here</a>), <a href="http://www.narth.com/docs/firstaids.html">NARTH</a> (late 1990s), and more recently at <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-schools-czar-is-promoting-porn-in-the-classroom-kevin-jennings-and-the-glsen-reading-list/">Gateway Pundit/BigGovernment.com</a> (Dec. 2009)&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.narth.com/docs/firstaids.html">NARTH reported</a> on <em>One Teenager in Ten</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Some of the Alyson publications, including <em>One Teenager in Ten </em>…encourage teens to, among other things, <strong>go to gay bars and have sex with adults to see if they like it.</strong>” Further, <em>One Teenager in Ten</em> “<a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/1999/february1999/ALA_print_layout_1_20668_20668.cfm">contains a lesbian teen&#8217;s explicit account</a> of her affair with a teacher.”</p></blockquote>
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<p>This is proof that Jennings was promoting reading material that encouraged children to go to adult gay bars for sex for over 20 years.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s much more to come.</p>
<p><a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/01/fistgate-xiv-jennings-personally-pushed-books-that-encouraged-children-to-meet-adults-at-gay-bars-for-sex/#comment-42663">Valerie</a> added this:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maybe it’s time to send open copies of some of this stuff to the National Enquirer. They seem to be the only newspaper interested in dealing honestly with the strange habits of prominent Democrats.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Its a Wrap: The Most Underreported Stories of 2009</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dana Loesch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year saw the birth of the tea party movement, the rise of administrative radicalism, and a suppression of information unlike ever before seen. Were it not for the new penny presses, blogs and the investigative citizens who author them, much of this information would be six feet under. When the media goes state and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This year saw the birth of the tea party movement, the rise of administrative radicalism, and a suppression of information unlike ever before seen. Were it not for the new penny presses, blogs and the investigative citizens who author them, much of this information would be six feet under. When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than <a href="http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2008/obama/obamaExecSum.asp" target="_blank">an echo chamber for the government,</a> the task of sharing truth falls to the original keepers of liberty: the American people.</p>
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<p>These are the most Underreported Stories of 2009:</p>
<p><strong>1. CLIMATEGATE</strong><br />
Al Gore needs something to sustain him and his big pimpin&#8217; life down at his ginormous, energy-sucking mansion in Tennessee. Thus the green market was born, a made-up market chock full of products like carbon credits and other Willy Wonka (but not as cool) ish items for people to buy as a way to feel good about themselves and their contribution to the planet without having to actually <em>do</em> anything. They don&#8217;t need a God! They need a <em>Prius</em>!</p>
<p>Celebrities Botoxed within an inch of their lives began popping up in PSA&#8217;s about global warming, about how we need to drive inefficient clown cars that run on electricity (which is still produced in coal-powered plants but hey, whatever) to save the planet. Musicians like Sheryl Crow crowed about using just a square of toilet paper to remove waste that has a greater street value than her latest album. All the hubris manifested in regulations handed down from Congress upon the automobile industry, the coal industry, et al., until finally! Cap&#8217;n Trade appeared in the House.</p>
<p>Cap&#8217;n Trade will rape and pillage your energy bills and even boss you around when it comes to remodeling or rehabbing a home. It&#8217;s almost like &#8230; congress has nothing better to do.</p>
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<p>Then &#8230; there was <a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/04/climategate-roundup-all-the-news-not-fit-to-print/" target="_blank">Climategate</a>. Russian hackers revealed emails from a British university (whose edicts on global warming are included in the U.N.&#8217;s decision-making process on climate) which showed that the scientists basically had no idea what they hell they were talking about but they did know that their original assessment of increased global temperatures was unsupported by data, thus, &#8220;hide the decline.&#8221;<br />
<strong>2. THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT</strong><br />
I feel bad for the staffer that had to check Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s pants after over a million tea party protesters marched past her window on September 12, 2009.</p>
<p>The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being &#8220;spend cash mon-nay&#8221; rather than execute the Constitution. What began as a few groups of several hundred people gathering in the cold back in February morphed into a movement so big that now talk of PACs and third parties (total crap idea, that latter) are commonplace and a Republican candidate has no hope of winning an election without the tea party support.</p>
<p>The most misreported and misunderstood thing about the tea party is its political leaning<em>s. The tea party has no political leaning</em>. It stands straight for limited government, low taxes, and liberty for all. Disagreement with those tenets is an accidental admission of socialism on the part of the antagonist. The beauty of the tea party movement is that it is independent and thus a true check and balance of the Republican and Democrat parties. It&#8217;s not a pawn of the GOP, thus untouchable in criticism of the Democrats &#8211; I view it as an unattached conscience of the Republican party.</p>
<p>The tea parties have been smeared, and while some haven&#8217;t helped against the charges of astroturf due to their worship of both God and money, the movement is pure.</p>
<p><a href="http://rebootcongress.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-minuteman.html" target="_blank">A new version of the Minuteman</a> has sprung from this movement: the patriot activist with the Gadsen flag on her shoulder and a video recorder or camera in her hand.</p>
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<p><strong>3. FORT HOOD AND ISLAMIC EXTREMISM IN THE U.S.</strong><br />
A guy with a history of terrorist activity (the FBI had been watching him for months) and bent on mass murder screams &#8220;ALLAHU AKBAR!&#8221; before shooting a pregnant soldier point-blank at a military base and the <a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/08/media-spin-on-fort-hood-catching-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-at-the-office/" target="_blank">media would rather cover its genitals like a dog and cower in the corner rather than define the terrorist as a terrorist</a>.</p>
<p>Rather, the media interviewed people who said that shooter Malik Nadal Hasan had &#8220;trouble fitting in&#8221; and isn&#8217;t it so sad how he was treated differently because of his religion? Lightbulb moment: hey! Perhaps he was treated differently because he felt prejudiced against his fellow soldiers whom he viewed as infidels who should die?</p>
<p><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/09/nidal-hasans-calling-card-explained/" target="_blank">Hasan had &#8220;soldier of Allah&#8221; printed on his business cards</a>, for crying out loud.</p>
<p>Nevermind that he was <a href="http://gawker.com/5398253/nidal-hasan-ft-hood-shooter-participated-in-homeland-security-disaster-preparation" target="_blank">a participant in Obama&#8217;s transition Homeland Security  team</a>. Oops!</p>
<p><strong>4. ACORN and SEIU</strong><br />
Only in America can you offer to help smuggle in underage sex workers as part of your description as a taxpayer-funded &#8220;community organizer&#8221; and still get federal dollars after the scandal breaks. James O&#8217;Keefe and Hannah Giles exposed ACORN for what it truly is: a malignancy that consumes the life out of depressed areas that it never, ever improves, ever, all in the name of making residents dependent upon the teat of government welfare so as to exploit them for votes later&#8221;neighborhood organizing.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/18/clueless-clark-alert-the-top-ten-undernews-stories-of-the-year-part-ii/" target="_blank">Michael Walsh explains</a> the repurcussions of the dynamic duo&#8217;s work:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Senate voted 83-7 in favor of de-funding the controversial group. The House voted 345-75 to cut ACORN’s funding, and more than 20 states have demanded either a full investigation of ACORN or that they lose their funding. The IRS also ended up cutting their connections to the group.</p></blockquote>
<p>O&#8217;Keefe and Giles made a mockery of the media who retaliated by refusing to cover the story, further hammering the last nail into their own coffin.</p>
<p>Despite all of this, Big Government wrote how after this egregious corruption, Democrats like <a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/21/acorn-qualifies-for-funding-in-senate-health-care-bill/" target="_blank">Roland Burris still found a way to push for continued ACORN funding</a> by slipping a provision requiring such in Harry Reid&#8217;s senate fauxcare bill.</p>
<p>SEIU shares #4 with SCORN (typo and it stays) after several of its <a href="attachments_2009_12_09" target="_blank">purple people beaters</a> attacked Kenneth Gladney (a black street vendor who I&#8217;d previously seen selling pro-Obama buttons at Obama&#8217;s Arnold, MO townhall) at Russ Carnahan&#8217;s townhall in Mehlville, Missouri after <em>profiling</em> him and assuming him to be a black conservative. One of the <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/the-gladney-twins-need-assistance/" target="_blank">country&#8217;s most shocking and underreported race-provoked attacks grew worse when his brother, Keith Gladney, spoke out</a> in his brother&#8217;s defense and is said to have been <a href="http://www.24thstate.com/2009/12/could-it-really-happen-here.html" target="_blank">canned from his job two days before Christmas</a> as a result.</p>
<p>At the time of this writing neither Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or President Obama have offered to arrange a beer summit between Kenneth Gladney and Andy Stern.</p>
<p><strong>5. HCR COVER-UP</strong><br />
<a href="http://thedanashow.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/reiterating-the-fact-that-the-majority-opposes-fauxcare/" target="_blank">The majority of the country opposes Harry Reid&#8217;s Senate bill</a> but nevertheless, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610473077223550.html" target="_blank">Reid bribed it through</a>. Government media served as a mouthpiece for the administration and its policy on fauxcare, giving the President multiple hours of free network prime-time hours to peddle his snake oil on the airwaves.</p>
<p>The Senate vote marks the turning point in our government where those elected to represent the constituency failed to do the jobs for which they were placed in office. It was a vote of tyranny, not of representation.<br />
<strong>6. NEA<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-54270" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/12/Picture-5.png" alt="Picture 5" width="313" height="456" /></strong><br />
<em>The White House is attempting to mimic Leni Riefenstahl by rounding up those in the arts and entertainment industry and using them as the vehicles through which President Obama can peddle his agenda</em>, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/21/conference-call-transcript-implicates-fed-art-agency-in-government-co-opt-of-arts-community/" target="_blank">I wrote back in September</a>. Big Government combed over this scandal which went completely ignored by the media. Union baby Buffy Wicks, from the Office of Public Engagement and Serve.gov, the NEA, and others joined a variety of artists and promoters on a conference call, the goal of which was to figure out how to create propaganda to support Obama&#8217;s policies.</p>
<p>Big Government Editor Mike Flynn expounded further on the scandal and reminded readers how<a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/18/taxpayer-funded-serve-gov-filtering-activists-to-acorn/" target="_blank"> Wicks used the Serve.gov portal as a way to funnel volunteers to ACORN</a> and other pro-Obama organizations, at taxpayer expense.</p>
<p>Jinkies! Looks like artists are going to have to work harder and nab more photos that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9652OD01" target="_blank">other people have taken</a> so that they can do cheesy, tri-color alterations to them that pass as pretentious, overrated and quasi-Photoshop Level 1 &#8220;art&#8221; to the people whose discernment went off the rails.</p>
<p><strong>7. DHS, NAPOLITANO TARGET DISSENT</strong><br />
While the Department of Homeland Security and Janet Napolitano were busy marking down the names of veterans, grandmas, and college kids who waved the military-authorized Gadsen Flag or questioned Obama&#8217;s policies in public as &#8220;possible domestic terrorists,&#8221; <em>real</em> terrorists were already in our country, shooting up our military bases and attempting to detonate planes. Michael Savage, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=97127" target="_blank">himself the target of the British government based upon his dissent</a>, filed suit against Napolitano in April over DHS&#8217;s &#8220;right wing extremist&#8221; report. <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=95244" target="_blank">The charges stated</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is a civil rights action brought under the First and Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution, challenging the policy, practice, and custom of the United States Government that targets for disfavored treatment those individuals and groups that are considered to be &#8216;rightwing extremists.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Under the Obama administration, the government has brazenly trained its eye on those who respectfully question the government. Liberals who complained over the Patriot Act demonstrated their devotion to party over liberty by going silent as their American brethren were targeting for doing no more (less, actually) than they the liberals did under Bush.</p>
<p><strong>7. KEVIN JENNINGS &#8211; FISTGATE</strong><br />
It wouldn&#8217;t be right if our current administration broke tradition with nominating completely inept radicals to high positions of power (gotta pay off those political favors!) and lucky for you betting types, that streak wasn&#8217;t broken with Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings.</p>
<p>Ah yes, the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/kevin_jennings_twisted_termino_1.html" target="_blank">Three Rs and One F of education</a>: Readin, Ritin&#8217; and &#8216;Rithmetic. Oh, and Fisting. The<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/23/critics-assail-obamas-safe-schools-czar-say-hes-wrong-man-job/" target="_blank"> required credentials</a> for such a post:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Behold, the comedy gold:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jennings was obviously chosen for this job because of the safe schools aspect&#8230; defining &#8217;safe schools&#8217; narrowly in terms of &#8217;safe for homosexuality&#8217;,&#8221; Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, told FOXNews.com.</p>
<p>&#8220;But at least half of the job involves creating drug-free schools, and we&#8217;ve not been offered any evidence about what qualifications Jennings has for promoting drug-free schools.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jennings&#8217; detractors note that he made four references to his personal drug abuse in his 2007 autobiography, &#8220;Mama&#8217;s Boy, Preacher&#8217;s Son: A Memoir.&#8221; On page 103, discussing his high school years in Hawaii in the early 1980s, Jennings wrote:</p>
<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Er &#8230; oops? Nobody&#8217;s perfect, but it just seems practical to maybe not glorify drug use in your book while trying to get a job which requires you to keep schools and kids drug free. Too obvious?</p>
<p>Oh, but then came the revelations as to what GLSEN&#8217;s recommended reading actually included and Katy-bar-the-door<a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/index.html" target="_blank">. It was discovered that at a GLSEN conference (in conjunction with the MA Department of Education no less) elementary school kids were taught how to engage in sex acts</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/fistgate-x-kevin-jennings’-suggested-reading-for-kids-included-sick-book-that-romanticized-rape-of-a-13-year-old-media-silent/" target="_blank">Gateway Pundit reported mercilessly &#8211; as I&#8217;d hoped that anyone who cared about the well-being of our schoolchildren would do &#8211; about the &#8220;recommended reading&#8221; lis</a>t Jennings chose for GLSEN and young schoolchildren which included graphic descriptions of rest-room sex and more.</p>
<p>State media was silent and liberal sites, such as Media Matters, defended Jennings.<br />
<strong>8. VAN JONES</strong><br />
Van Jones signed his political death certificate when he signed a 9/11 truther petition stating that he believed that our own government took down the Twin Towers and not terrorists, the petition brought to light by <a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/truther-czar-obamas-green-czar-van.html" target="_blank">Gateway Pundit</a>. Of course, under an administration that refuses to even use the language because it may hurt the feelings of suicide bombers and be judged as &#8220;divisive,&#8221; one can see how Jones might not understand that the terrorists are actually our enemies.</p>
<p>The radical environmental czar (a one-time STORM participant, a Marxist organization) and <a href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Van-Jones-Green-Jobs-Czar-a-selfdescribed-communist-arrested-during-Rodney-King-riots" target="_blank">admitted communist</a> in the Obama administration was forced to resign, further tainting the judgement of the administration, who later <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html" target="_blank">admitted</a> to not having vetted Jones well enough.</p>
<p>The disparity between the eerie silence from state media and the raucous exclamations from the blogosphere was expected but sad nonetheless.<br />
<strong>9. OBAMA&#8217;S LACK OF SUCCESS</strong><br />
Don&#8217;t expect to see much media criticism &#8211; even if it&#8217;s objective and deserved &#8211; of our infant Messiah president. The media has a lot invested into him and they unofficially hung the last shred of their validity on his success. It&#8217;s not to say that conservatives don&#8217;t want a successful president; we define success differently than liberals. Conservatives want the United States to be successful in foreign relations, we want a thriving economy, success in maintaining individual liberty, all the good stuff of which America is made. Conservatives don&#8217;t want to see plans to nationalize and thereby socialize the private sector because the very irony of such economic strategy is that it <em>hasn&#8217;t</em> been successful in multitude of countries in which it&#8217;s been implemented.</p>
<p>Conservatives aren&#8217;t the only ones questioning Obama&#8217;s trajectory; <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704402404574525543109875438.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories" target="_blank">he&#8217;s</a> <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/122627/Obama-Job-Approval-Down-49.aspx?CSTS=tagrss" target="_blank">been</a> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/08/obamas-percent-approval-lowest-president-point/" target="_blank">sliding</a> <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/123806/Obama-Quarterly-Approval-Average-Slips-Nine-Points.aspx" target="_blank">in</a> <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/21/gallup-opposition-to-big-government-growing-rapidly/" target="_blank">the</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Poll-Obama-personal-popularity-at-new-low-64348707.html" target="_blank">polls</a> <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/30/rasmussen-obama-strong-disapproval-at-peak/" target="_blank">since</a> <a href="http://www.redcounty.com/broken-promises-taxing-obamas-credibility" target="_blank">spring</a>; <a href="http://thedanashow.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/reiterating-the-fact-that-the-majority-opposes-fauxcare/" target="_blank">the majority of Americans disapprove of his march on health care reform</a>; yet the media downplays all of this because they&#8217;ve gambled it all on the success of this political neophyte who quit his job as a senator so he could hightail it to Washington. (What was that the left said about quitters?)</p>
<p>The media&#8217;s complicity in shoring up a failing president has given an excuse for the current congressional body to repeatedly ignore the will of the people. Blogs are the new penny press; corporate media is dead.</p>
<p>Happy New Year!</p>
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		<title>Fistgate XIII: Safe Schools Czar Jennings &#8216;Recommended&#8217; Book Describing Sex Between 1st Graders</title>
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Throughout the FistGate series of revelations, Kevin Jennings&#8217; defenders have often insisted that, while Jenning&#8217;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.)

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<p>Throughout the FistGate series of revelations, Kevin Jennings&#8217; defenders have often insisted that, while Jenning&#8217;s organization, GLSEN, may have sponsored, featured or promoted material that was inappropriate for young children, Jennings himself was unaware of these actions. (<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/200912060012">See here</a>, for just one example.)</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53646" title="ra2009_090404_jennings_01" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/12/ra2009_090404_jennings_015.jpg" alt="ra2009_090404_jennings_01" width="480" height="306" /></p>
<p>But, today we learn that Jennings himself promoted sexually explicit and inappropriate books to 7th graders.  <a href="http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2009/12/safe-schools-czar-kevin-jennings.html?zx=c1fb8499ace259da">Mass Resistance</a> reported that Kevin Jennings was promoting the porn book, <em>Reflections of a Rock Lobster: Growing Up Gay</em> and other titles to kids for years:</p>
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<blockquote><p>Here’s proof that Kevin Jennings was certainly aware that his organization, GLSEN, recommended porn books for teens. <em>He had recommended them himself</em> in his 1994 high school reader <em>Becoming Visible</em> (published by <a href="http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2009/10/jennings-sought-out-by-porn-publisher.html">porn publisher Alyson Books</a>). On p. 278 in his Questions/Activities section for Chapter 17, he wrote:</p>
<p>15. Other resources for reading are Bennett Singer’s <em>Growing Up Gay</em>, Ann Heron’s<em>One Teenager in Ten: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth</em>, Aaron Frick’s<em>Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story of Growing Up Gay</em>, and Paul Monette’s<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Man-Half-Life-Story/dp/0062507249">Becoming a Man</a></em>. Films include Robert King’s <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101737/plotsummary">The Disco Years</a></em>and <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdpe-rkYVgQ">Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</a></em>, based on Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical novel.</p>
<p>These questionable books (haven’t looked at the films yet…) have been described by<a href="http://www.missionamerica.com/oldagenda26.php">Linda Harvey in 2002</a> (also <a href="http://www.missionamerica.com/stoppflag1.php">here</a>), <a href="http://www.narth.com/docs/firstaids.html">NARTH</a> (late 1990s), and more recently at<a href="../2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-schools-czar-is-promoting-porn-in-the-classroom-kevin-jennings-and-the-glsen-reading-list/">Gateway Pundit/BigGovernment.com</a> (Dec. 2009).</p></blockquote>
<p>For those new to this story, here is an excerpt from the book, <em>Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story of Growing Up Gay</em>, again deemed suitable for 7th Graders, by Kevin Jennings:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/record/1593.html">Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story About Growing up Gay</a><br />
This book can be purchased at the GLSEN website.<br />
<img style="border: 0px initial initial;" title="rock lobster" src="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/rock-lobster-300x219.jpg" alt="rock lobster" width="300" height="219" /></p>
<p>This book covers group sex between first graders and makes it sound completely normal.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/record/1593.html" target="_blank">Reflections of a Rock Lobster</a></strong> &#8211; Page <a href="http://firstthings.com/gatewaypundit/wp-content/uploads/2009/PDF/ReflectionsRockLobster13L.pdf" target="_blank">13</a></p>
<p><span style="color: maroon; font-size: x-small;"><em>(At the age of six, the author frequently performed fellatio on his fellow first-graders in the school restroom, part of a &#8220;busy homosexual childhood.&#8221;)</em></span></p>
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<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;t they?</p>
<p>Today Kevin Jennings is Barack Obama&#8217;s Safe Schools Czar.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s much more to come.</p>
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		<title>Fistgate XII: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s GLSEN Conferences Included D*ld* Tips and Needle Instructions For Teens</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Hoft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just what every 7th grader needs to know&#8230;
Obama&#8217;s Safe Schools Czar&#8217;s organization, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held teen conferences where not only did they talk about fisting and hand out fisting kits but they distributed needle handling instructions.
Mass Resistance posted this pamplet from a 2000 GLSEN conference. Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Safe&#8221; Schools [...]]]></description>
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<p>Obama&#8217;s Safe Schools Czar&#8217;s organization, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held teen conferences where not only did they <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/fistgate-barack-obamas-safe-schools-czar-promoted-fisting-to-14-year-olds/">talk about fisting</a> and <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/fistgate-ii-high-school-students-given-fisting-kits-at-kevin-jennings-glsen-conference/">hand out fisting kits</a> but they distributed needle handling instructions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/handouts/bglass.html">Mass Resistance</a> posted this pamplet from a 2000 GLSEN conference. Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Safe&#8221; Schools Czar founded GLSEN in and was the director:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/glsen-needles-2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-11015 aligncenter" title="glsen needles 2" src="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/glsen-needles-2-300x181.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="181" /></a></p>
<p>And the pamplet also included safe d*ld* instructions for your young curious male/female teen:</p>
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<a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/safe-dildo-tips.bmp"><img class="size-full wp-image-11021 aligncenter" title="safe dildo tips" src="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/safe-dildo-tips.bmp" alt="" width="383" height="693" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;If you&#8217;re having sex with anyone and using dildoes or other sex toys&#8230; &#8220;</p>
<p>The same group that handed out this pamphlet (Boston GLASS) led four different workshops at the 2000 GLSEN Conference (see conference <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/docs/GLSEN_Conf.pdf">booklet</a>).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/handouts/bglass.html">Mass Resistance</a> has much more on the GLSEN Conference materials.</p>
<p><strong>Today Kevin Jennings is Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Safe&#8221; Schools Czar.</strong></p>
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		<title>Fistgate XI: Kevin Jennings’ Suggested Reading For Kids Included Sick Book that Promoted S&amp;M to Children- Media Silent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we reported that Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization were promoting a book to children that included pornographic &#8220;artwork&#8221; of men having sex while boy scouts looked on. We also reported that Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization promoted a book to children [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week we <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/fistgate-ix-kevin-jennings-suggested-reading-included-porn-books-for-kids-with-images-of-men-having-sex-while-boy-scouts-watch-media-silent/"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">reported</span></strong></a> that Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization were promoting a book to children that included pornographic &#8220;artwork&#8221; of men having sex while boy scouts looked on. We also reported that Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and his GLSEN organization promoted a book to children that romaticized the <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/fistgate-x-kevin-jennings%e2%80%99-suggested-reading-for-kids-included-sick-book-that-romanticized-rape-of-a-13-year-old-media-silent/">rape of of a 13 year-old</a>. Also last week we <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/fistgate-viii-safe-schools-czar-jennings-org-promoted-book-detailing-gay-sex-between-first-graders/"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">reported</span></strong></a> that Kevin Jennings’ organization GLSEN was even promoting a children’s book that detailed first-graders having sex.</p>
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<p>As founder and executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (<a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">GLSEN</span></strong></a>) Jennings approved of and promoted <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-schools-czar-is-promoting-porn-in-the-classroom-kevin-jennings-and-the-glsen-reading-list/"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">several filthy sex books</span></strong></a> for children. Scott Baker from <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Breitbart-TV.com</span></strong></a> and Co-Host of <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/category/the-b-cast/"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">‘The B-Cast</span></strong></a>‘ submitted a <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-schools-czar-is-promoting-porn-in-the-classroom-kevin-jennings-and-the-glsen-reading-list/"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">shocking report</span></strong></a> to Gateway Pundit blog back on December 4, 2009. The report detailed the reading list promoted to 7-12 grade students by Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN organization. This material has not been reported in detail at Big Government website. Remember as you read this that Kevin Jennings is today the nation’s Safe Schools Czar.</p>
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<p>Here again is what Scott Baker had to say about this vile material being pushed on children.</p>
<blockquote><p>Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of an organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (<a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html" target="new"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">GLSEN</span></strong></a>). GLSEN started essentially as Jennings’ personal project and grew to become the culmination of his life’s work. And he was chosen by President Obama to be the nation’s <a href="http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/index.html" target="new"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Safe Schools Czar</span></strong></a> primarily <em>because</em> he had founded and led GLSEN (scroll for <a href="http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/05/05192009d.html" target="new"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">bio</span></strong></a>).</p>
<p>GLSEN’s stated <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/about/history/index.html?state=about&amp;type=about" target="new"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">mission</span></strong></a> is to empower gay youth in the schools and to stop harassment by other students. It encourages the formation of Gay Student Alliances and condemns the use of hateful words. GLSEN also strives to influence the educational curriculum to include materials which the group believes will increase tolerance of gay students and decrease bullying. To that end, GLSEN maintains <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/index.html?state=tools&amp;type=tools" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">a recommended reading list of books</span></strong></a> that it claims “furthers our mission to ensure safe schools for all students.” In other words, these are the books that GLSEN’s directors think all kids should be reading: gay kids should read them to raise their self-esteem, and straight kids should read them in order to become more aware and tolerant and stop bullying gay kids. Through GLSEN’s online ordering system, called <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/index.html?state=tools&amp;type=educator" target="new"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">“GLSEN BookLink,”</span></strong></a> featured prominently on their Web site, teachers can buy the books to use as required classroom assignments, or students can buy them to read on their own.</p>
<p>According to GLSEN’s <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/news/record/1689.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">own press releases</span></strong></a> from the period during which its recommended reading list was developed, the organization’s three areas of focus were creating “educational resources, public policy agenda, [and] student organizing programs”; in other words, the reading list (chief among its “educational resources”) was of prime importance in GLSEN’s efforts to influence the American educational system.</p>
<p>The list is divided into three main categories: <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/K-6.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">books recommended for grades K-6</span></strong></a>; <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/7-12.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">books recommended for grades 7-12</span></strong></a>; and <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/Adult.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">books for teachers</span></strong></a>. (The books on the list span all genres: fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, even poetry.)</p>
<p>Out of curiosity to see exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school, our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through.</p>
<p>What we discovered shocked us. We were flabbergasted. Rendered speechless.</p>
<p>We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.</p>
<p>We knew that unless we carefully documented what we were reading, the public would have a hard time accepting it. Mere descriptions on our part could not convey the emotional gut reaction one gets when seeing what Kevin Jennings wants kids to read as school assignments. So we began scanning pages from each of the books, and then made exact transcriptions of the relevant passages on each page.</p></blockquote>
<p>For today’s report we give you another of of GLSEN’s recommended books for 7-12 graders. This book <a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/record/1473.html">Revolutionary Voices</a> includes a very graphic story about a young sex worker who praises prostitution and promotes sadomasochism.</p>
<p>Remember: This book is recommended by GLSEN for children–-</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/booklink/record/1473.html" target="_blank">Revolutionary Voices</a></strong> – Pages <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/rev_voices_171L.jpg" target="_blank">171</a>, <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/rev_voices_172L.jpg" target="_blank">172</a> + <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/rev_voices_176L.jpg" target="_blank">176</a></p>
<p><em>(An interview with a “sex worker” who praises prostitution as a way to raise one’s self-esteem and have empowering sexual experiences.)</em></p>
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<p><em>Minal is a young queer from India and has been a sex worker in the S/M scene for a year and a half. He has taken a break from sex work and lives in San Francisco. In this interview Minal talks about his journey into sex work as a way of uplifting his self-esteem around body-image issues, his feeling of empowerment doing sex work in drag. . .</em></p>
<p>. . .</p>
<p><strong>S:</strong> How did you get into sex work?</p>
<p><strong>M:</strong> Well, before I get into that I have to tell you how I got into S/M generally, since I used to be a complete vanilla bottom. I’m gay, by the way; I’m exploring being transgendered, and I’ve been doing drag for about ten years, on and off. Drag was never a sexual thing for me, I’ve always had sex “as a guy.” Around March of last year a friend asked me about rape fantasies—she wanted to know what my fantasies were. I realized I hadn’t been fantasizing at all. When I did start thinking about it, my fantasies were all about whipping. I started reading up on S/M, and it was making me interested in sex for the first time. Before, I never knew what the big deal was with sex. I put a personal ad in the paper to do scenes with different people, and I realized that for what I was doing, I could be getting good money. I had a lot of friends in the sex industry who were asking me, “Why aren’t you charging for what you’re doing?”</p>
<p>So that summer I did it for free and learned what I needed to do, and by November I started putting out ads in the Bay Area Reporter. My ads were sort of genderfuck: my picture was taken from the neck down in a corset, fishnets and garter belt. It was a dom-type look. I realized there weren’t that many guys into doing S/M professionally, and the ones that were were really butch—so I stood out a lot. It was great. It was the first time I had really good sex, I was getting paid for it, and I felt totally in control. It was good, but I was wondering how many people I was losing by advertising as a fem dom. I started putting ads online without the fem look and got a lot more response, so I switched to just having a nude picture in the paper as opposed to a girlish one. The responses were more than I could handle, which is a good thing. That’s how I got into sex work, as a way of exploring my sexuality.</p>
<p>. . .</p>
<p><strong>S:</strong> How has your self-image improved from doing sex work?</p>
<p><strong>M:</strong> I feel a lot more confident and secure with myself. I think that has a lot to do with S/M and coming into my own power.</p>
<hr />Does this sound like something you want your 7th grader to read? Is this porn really appropriate for 13 year-olds?</p>
<p>Last week <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/12-orgs-co-sign-letter-to-congress-demand-jennings-be-fired/">12 conservative organizations</a> sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions demanding that Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings be Fired. You can help out too by contacting the committee yourself <a href="mailto:Help_comments@help.senate.gov">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>**</strong> And you can contact your representative or senator <a href="http://www.contactingthecongress.org/">here</a> and demand that Kevin Jennings be fired.</p>
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