The Right Hates Gays

This is no surprise to anyone. Not only do they hate gays, but they hate gays Obama has hired to work for him. Fox ”News” personalities, followed by other conservative media outlets and gay-bashing organizations, have launched a relentless assault against acknowledged homosexual Kevin Jennings, an official in the Department of Education.

At issue, is an episode Jennings recounted in a book (available at Media Matters), in which he advised a 16-year-old student who thought he might be gay on an encounter with an older man he met at a bus station. This happened 21 years ago, when Jennings was a new teacher in his early 20s. Here is the Fox/Lou Dobbs/Washington Times version of the story, heavily promoted by Sean Hannity:

A 15-year-old male student confided to Jennings in 1988 that he had sex with an adult male he met at a bus station and Jennings, a teacher, failed to report it to authorities, in contradiction of Massachusetts state law.

Only after reporting on this story for several days did Fox make an effort to verify the story with the alleged student, who explained that he was 16 at the time. The student (now an adult) also released a statement to Media Matters and showed them his driver’s license, proving that he was 16 at the time:

In 1988, I had taken a bus home for the weekend, and on the return trip met someone who was also gay. The next day, I had a conversation with Mr. Jennings about it. I had no sexual contact with anybody at the time, though I was entirely legally free to do so. I was a sixteen year-old going through something most of us have experienced: adolescence. I find it regrettable that the people who have the compassion and integrity to protect our nation’s students are themselves in need of protection from homophobic smear attacks. Were it not for Mr. Jennings’ courage and concern for my well-being at that time in my life, I doubt I’d be the proud gay man that I am today.

So, the student was 16 and never had sex with the man. Although Fox “News” has conceded its error, Sean Hannity said he doubted the veracity of the student’s claim to have been 16. If Hannity went to Media Matters and viewed the student’s driver’s license and compared that to the time of the incident, which was in 1988, he would realize the student was being truthful. Since Jennings did not work at the school prior to the student’s 16th birthday, the student would have been 16.

Of course, they’ve moved on to accusations that Jennings was involved with NAMBLA, an organization that promotes man-boy love. There is no evidence, but since when does Fox and their ilk need evidence? A representative from the Family Research Council was on NPR today discussing this and referred to the student as 15. The “narrator” reported the boy’s true age at the time of the incident but did little to dispel the sordidness implied by the Family Research Council spokesperson. The spokesperson made it clear that they would mount similar efforts against anyone Obama appointed who did not meet their standards for being a decent human being.

This includes Chai Feldblum, a nominee for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Feldblum’s sin, allegedly, is signing this statement:

Marriage is not the only worthy form of family or relationship, and it should not be legally and economically privileged above all others…Households in which there is more than one conjugal partner” along with “Single parent households” and “Adult children living with and caring for their parents,” among others, as people that “stand to gain from alternative forms of household recognition beyond one-size-fits-all marriage.

Yes, Feldblum is a lesbian and a gay rights activist. She also had the nerve to describe gay sex as “morally good” and equated it with the morality of having heterosexual sex.

They have even taken to attacking Mary Cheney, a lesbian and daughter of former vice president Dick cheney, whose second pregnancy has become public (all grammar/spelling errors are by the original poster):

I respect Dick Cheney, but I don’t understand why he is allowing his daughter to take innocent children into her lesbianic home. Can anyone claim that these kids won’t be scarred for life? So sad.

Also repugnant, IMNSHO, is the use of “they are expecting a child” when, for obvious reasons “they” could not POSSIBLY have conceived. It is the slight of hand that the left does with rediculous name reversals (like “FAMILY PLANNING”) that implies something that in fact does just not happen…but I don’t understand why he is allowing his daughter to take innocent children into her lesbianic home.

I am sure it comes as no surprise to anyone that the right wing hates gays, including gay conservatives who remain in the closet. I just hope the Obama appointees do not do a Van Jones and resign. These haters must not be allowed to win or they will move on to try to pick off all his appointees one by one.

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