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Corthell on Saturday, December 19, 2009 6:01:03 PM
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following includes descriptions of adult themes and objectionable subject material.
The chairman of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee has launched a defense of Kevin Jennings and the sexually explicit books recommended for children by the homosexual advocacy organization that Jennings started, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network.
"Though Jennings' and GLSEN's critics claim to be upholding American morals and values by condemning the GLSEN book list, they are actually undermining the values of tolerance, free inquiry, and self-determination that inform and sustain our democratic way of life in the United States," said Martin Garnar in a statement.
"Stigmatizing particular ideas and engaging in unfounded personal attacks in an effort to censor and suppress opposing opinions and ideas is the antithesis of intellectual freedom, especially when done to discourage and prevent individuals from accessing or considering those opinions and ideas," he wrote.
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The issue of Jennings homosexual advocacy and the work of the group he founded has been a focal point in recent months because of his appointment in the Obama administration to head the Department of Education's Office of Safe Schools, where he sets "safety" policy for the nation's millions of public school children.
Jennings in the past has described how he adopted the use of the word "safe" to facilitate the promotion of homosexuality in schools throughout Massachusetts.
WND has reported on that issue and his influence over a conference for teachers and children that included instruction in various homosexual acts such as "fisting," multiple efforts at the congressional level to have him removed, his responsiveness when a porn publisher asked for his help in writing a book, his financial sponsorship of radical homosexual art and his membership in the sometimes-violent radical Act Up homosexual organization.
The issue of the books the Jennings-founded GLSEN recommends for children also has been the subject of reports.
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According to a report posted online by Jim Hoft at the Gateway Pundit blog after it was obtained from Breitbart.tv co-founder Scott Baker, GLSEN recommendations include "explicit descriptions of sex acts between preschoolers; 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." http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119428