Anglican Mainstream

While the guide provides helpful information about STD prevention and the perils of drug use, it all but avoids discussing the link between sexual expression and emotional attachment.  Not to mention the fact that the repeated use of the word, “queer,” politicizes the whole endeavor.  A good many, perhaps even an overwhelming majority of, gay people bristle at being labeled “queer” by overzealous advocates.

 

Although the booklet does include some essential information, it is entirely inappropriate for teenagers.  And not just for the promotion of casual sex without emotional attachment — and even appears to countenance sex in public parks. The guide even provides a list of Boston area bars. Let me repeat that, the booklet that GLSEN distributed to teenagers, high school students, includes a list of gay bars in the Boston area.  Now, I went to college in Massachusetts and I recall the drinking age there was 21 and also recall that it was illegal for minors to enter bars.

 

Doesn’t seem like something to include in a booklet distributed to high school kids, (nearly) all of whom are under 21.

 

The more information that comes out about Kevin Jennings and the conferences his organization sponsored and the information it distributed, the more it seems he wishes to define a gay identity in purely sexual terms.

 

It’s hardly anti-gay, as at least one left-wing web-sites has suggested, to call him out on this.  Ask yourself this question, would it be appropriate for a straight man who  had helmed an organization which provided tips for high school boys on cruising chicks and listing straight bars to work in the federal Department of Education (or any department of Education for that matter), much less at head of an office responsible for “safe schools.”