NOTE:  As distasteful as all this is, we need to be letting people know what is being done to our nation's public school system in the name of "diversity."  Previous blogs have contained other items about Kevin Jennings, who was chosen by the Obama administrations' U. S. Department of Education to be its "Office of Save Schools" czar.'

     On October 2, 2009, in an item subheaded “Jennings: I was 'inspired' by NAMBLA's Harry Hay,”  Bob Unruh of WorldNetDaily reported that a transcript from a 1997 speech shows Office of Safe Schools chief Kevin Jennings in the U.S. Department of Education expressed his admiration for Harry Hay, one of the nation's first homosexual activists who launched the Mattachine Society in 1948, founded the Radical Faeries and was a longtime advocate for the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA. "One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay," the transcript shows Jennings saying, "who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. In 1948, he tried to get people to join the Mattachine Society. It took him two years to find one other person who would join.   "Well, [in] 1993," Jennings continued, "Harry Hay marched with a million people in Washington, who thought he had a good idea 40 years before."   The comments about Hay are significant because of Hay's extreme positions regarding homosexuality.  For example, according to the website for the North American Man-Boy Love Association, Hay told the organization in a 1983 speech: "I also would like to say at this point that it seems to me that in the gay community the people who should be running interference for NAMBLA are the parents and friends of gays. Because if the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what thirteen-, fourteen-, and fifteen-year-old kids need more than anything else in the world. And they would be welcoming this, and welcoming the opportunity for young gay kids to have the kind of experience that they would need."   The statements from Jennings are being reported by Americans for Truth, an activist organization that works to expose the actions and statements of the nation's homosexual advocates.  It was just days earlier that a spokesman for President Barack Obama confirmed the president believes Roman Polanski should be held to account for his three decades-old confession to sexually assaulting a teen.   Americans for Truth chief Peter LaBarbera told WND the statements were transcribed from a tape of Jennings' address before a "Looking to the Future" panel at GLSEN's Mid-Atlantic conference Oct. 25, 1997, at Grace Church School in New York.   Jennings describes how "being finished" with his work might "some day mean that most straight people, when they would hear that someone was promoting homosexuality, would say, 'Yeah, who cares?'  Close your eyes for a second and think, 'What would the world look like if we were through with our work? If we were done. If we could close the doors on 27th street [GLSEN's New York City headquarters], and shut down the chapters, and disband the board. What would be happening?'" he questioned.   "This is the only thing that can stop us, is if we believe that our dreams cannot come true," he continued.   Then he praised Hay.   "Everybody thought Harry Hay was crazy in 1948, and they knew something about him which he apparently did not – they were right, he was crazy. You are all crazy. We are all crazy. All of us who are thinking this way are crazy, because you know what? Sane people keep the world the same [blank] old way it is now. It's the people who think, 'No, I can envision a day when straight people say, 'So what if you're promoting homosexuality?'' Or straight kids say, 'Hey, why don't you and your boyfriend come over before you go to the prom and try on your tuxes on at my house?'"   He suggested conference participants "think how much can change in one lifetime if in Harry Hay's one very short life, he saw change from not even one person willing to join him to a million people willing to travel to Washington to join him."   Besides Hay's endorsement of a "relationship" between teens and adult homosexuals, in 1994 he gave another NAMBLA address that cited the "growth and change" in the previous years.   "By far, gays' and lesbians' greatest strides were in the dimensions of gay consciousness and in our breathtaking discoveries in the richness and diversity of gay spirit. It is in the realm of gay spirit where all the groups comprising the gay and lesbian community currently are being challenged to take great leaps, to expand their self-visions and potential horizons," he said. "In this period, my beloved Radical Faeries moved to perceive that our lovely and beautiful sexuality is the gateway to spirit. Perhaps NAMBLA might consider expanding its parameters also."   According to the archives of Concerned Women for America, when Hay died in 2002, no mainstream media outlets reported his advocacy for the pedophile activities of NAMBLA.   Hay also urged that NAMBLA, which advocates for the elimination of any "age of consent" restrictions, be considered mainstream in America.  "NAMBLA's record as a responsible gay organization is well known. NAMBLA was spawned by the gay community and has been in every major gay and lesbian march. … NAMBLA's call for the abolition of age of consent is not the issue. NAMBLA is a bona fide participant in the gay and lesbian movement. NAMBLA deserves strong support in its rights of free speech and association and its members' protection from discrimination and bashing," he said.