Get'em While They're Young

It's not very often that I read a line that is so funny I wish I had written it, but Jenn Q. Public has done so in this post with the following statement-

I’m generally skeptical regarding accounts of Big Gay nefariously imposing a radical homosexual agenda on Americans. You don’t have to be Freud to analyze the hyperventilations of some conservatives about gay sex being “shoved down our throats.”

Now that is an ouch moment extraordinaire, but to be clear, she goes on to elucidate her skepticism with the caveat that there are indeed some gay activists that might well give conservatives good cause to feel the gay agenda is being shoved up their asses, so to speak.

It was with that in mind that I read Scott Baker’s shocking rundown of graphic and unhealthy sexual depictions in the youth reading materials recommended by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

So, what were these books, and how did GLSEN go about formulating the list? Admittedly, some of the books would seem to me to be relatively innocuous. Among these would be a "coming out" story about a gay Santa Clause who has a relationship with an Italian toymaker. Other than the fact that the name of said toymaker might, unless I am mistaken, leave the author and publisher open to a lawsuit from Disney, a book such as that would, on the surface, appear to be relatively harmless. Remember, this list is supposed to be recommended reading for gay children, to promote self-esteem, as well as tolerance among the general population. As such, you can expect a degree of political correctness and even some silliness.

Unfortunately, it goes well beyond this, with many books purportedly containing suggestions, recommendations, and justifications for sexual relationships between young gay boys and adult gay men. There are also some that deal with such diverse subjects as anal sex in public bathrooms, public masturbation, and something known as "fisting" (I still don't know for sure what that is and I'm not sure I want to know), as well as other forms of sexual deviance and perversion that is, nevertheless, treated as though it should be tolerated, accepted, and even encouraged among young gay males. Evidently, the notion of adult-child homosexual sex is treated in much the same manner in many of these books.

The most shocking controversy, however, involves just who in large part is responsible for compiling this list of GLSEN approved books.

GLSEN’s bibliography of “pre-screened” titles for kids was compiled to further the organization’s “mission to ensure safe schools for all students.” Books selected for inclusion were ostensibly “reviewed by GLSEN staff for quality and appropriateness of content.” The list was developed under the leadership of Kevin Jennings, the founder and longtime executive director of GLSEN who now serves as President Obama’s safe schools czar.

The safe schools concept, as conceived by GLSEN, it should be noted, is to provide a safe educational background for gay students, basically, where they can be free of harassment and intimidation.

Since Obama has long made such a big deal about governing from the middle, perhaps it would not be asking too much of him to moderate his administrations policy here by appointing a Czar who will protect gay students from the likes of Kevin Jennings, as well as GLSEN activists and their supporters, when they are not in school.