UPDATE:
Fifty-three Members of Congress have now signed a letter to President Obama urging the removal of Kevin Jennings from the Department of Education. Read the letter and then call United States Secretary of Education
Arne Duncan at 800-872-5327
and urge him to remove Kevin Jennings from
the Department of Education.
Kevin Jennings has shown a disregard for
parental rights and for our children's well being,
yet he is the President's choice to keep our schools safe! Safe for sexual predators it would seem! Please contact your state school board and let them know that this is unacceptable, and they need to let the President know: it is time Kevin Jennings resigns!
"I can envision a day when straight people say, 'So what if you're promoting homosexuality?'... That is our mission from this day forward."
Source: Kevin Jennings, "Looking to the Future" panel discussion, GLSEN Mid-Atlantic Conference, New York, October 25, 1997; cited in Brian Burt, "GLSEN's Jennings: 'That is our mission from this day forward'," Lambda Report, Jan.-Feb. 1998; online at:
"What had [God] done for me, other than make me feel shame and guilt? Squat. [Scr*w] you, buddy - I don't need you around anymore."
Source: Kevin Jennings, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), p. 101.
"[To a "high school sophomore, 15 years old," who told Jennings "I met somebody in the bus station bathroom and I went home with him"]: "You know, I hope you knew to use a condom."
Source: Quoted in Warren Throckmorton, "Remembering Brewster," August 21, 2005; online at:
Source: An audio file of the Jennings speech is available online via a link in: Warren Throckmorton, "Kevin Jennings appointed to Department of Education post," June 2, 2009; online at:
"We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit-... I'm trying to find a way to say this. I'm trying not to say, "[F---] 'em!" which is what I want to say, because I don't care what they think! Drop dead!"
Source: Kevin Jennings, speech at Marble Collegiate Church, March 20, 2000; quoted in Peter LaBarbera, "When Silence Would Have Been Golden," Concerned Women for America, April 10, 2002; online at:
"I got stoned more often and went out to the beach at Bellows,... spending hours watching the planes take off and land at the airport, which is actually quite fascinating when you are drunk and stoned."
Source: Kevin Jennings, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), p. 103.
Press, 2006), p. 103.