S.T.A.N.D.
P.O. Box 15111
Chesapeake, Virginia 23328
Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr. Telephone: 1-866-573-0772
President email:stand@standamerica.us
www.standamerica.us
September 30, 2009
The Honorable Barack H. Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
As President of STAND [Staying True to America’s National Destiny] I represent thousands of supporters and millions of Americans – no doubt a majority – who share our concern about your appointment of Kevin Jennings as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. As American citizens we demand that he be dismissed from our government forthwith because he is unfit to serve in any public office, and certainly unfit to serve in an office dedicated to educating children.
At this very moment the world is debating the fate of Roman Polanski who 32 years ago allegedly sexually abused a minor. Most agree that this is an offense which should be punished no matter how long the perpetrator escapes justice. It cannot be erased by subsequent good behavior. Kevin Jennings may not have raped a child, but he facilitated the rape of a child. According to Grove City College Professor Warren Throckmorton’s audio recording of a speech Jennings gave in 2000 at a Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network (“GLSEN”) rally in Iowa, Kevin Jennings admitted to instructing the student as follows:
“I said, ‘What were you doing in Boston on a school night, Brewster?’ He got very quiet, and he finally looked at me and said, ‘Well I met someone in the bus station bathroom and I went home with him.’ I looked at Brewster and said, ‘You know, I hope you knew to use a condom.’”
Later in writing about the incident in his 1994 book, “One Teacher in Ten,” he boasted that the 15 year old “left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on campus for the next two years, until he graduated.”
He did not warn the youngster against the dangers of sexual encounters with strangers. He did not warn him of the danger of a sexual relationship with an adult. He did not notify the police or school authorities. He rather encouraged him in the relationship with a wink, a nod and the suggestion of a condom. Surely you find this disturbing and unacceptable. Protecting our children is a task so sensitive and sacred that only those who meet the highest standard should be charged with it. Kevin Jennings does not meet that standard and should not be in charge of the safety of school children.
You as an Attorney must know that this raises serious issues of legal culpability for Mr. Jennings. The applicable statute, Massachusetts Laws, Chapter 272, Section 4 provides, “Whoever induces any person under 18 years of age of chaste life to have unlawful sexual intercourse shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in a jail or house of correction for not more than two and one-half years or by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.” Had the matter been adjudicated, Jennings may well have been fined or imprisoned.
Given the above facts, it is impossible to justify placing Mr. Jennings in charge of the safety of children. The situation can only be corrected by discharging Kevin Jennings from your Administration. If it had been necessary to obtain Advice and Consent from the United States Senate, the public exposure of these facts would have prevented his confirmation.
In addition, Mr. Jennings has made numerous statements of anti-Christian bigotry. We find it incredulous that a bigot would be welcome in your Administration.
We mean no disrespect to you or the Office of President by demanding his removal. However, his appointment is so egregious that it is appropriate to state our position in the strongest possible terms. We trust you will treat this as a demand from the American people that our government reflect our Judeo-Christian values and morality. Since you invoked those very values in the healthcare debate, we trust that you will give them deference in this instance and dismiss Kevin Jennings. Thank you.
Respectfully yours,
Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr.
Cc: The Honorable Arne Duncan
U.S. Secretary of Education
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
I love this letter. Thank you for sharing.
It’s good to know not all dark-skinned Americans have not swallowed the bait of socialist Marxists. Press on, spiritual brother!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! God bless you Bishop for taking a STAND (pun intended!)
Mr. President, the Horse and the Cart are a good example of the Horse represents JOBS, and the Cart is the proposed Health Plan. First you need jobs to shelter, and feed your family this is the Horse that is needed to pull the Cart. There is no reason to neglect the Horse which has always pulled the Cart. Let us concentrate on jobs to put our people back to work for health reasons and then work to insure a healthy cost effective life. Let us not forget the saying the Horse pulls the Cart.
“They also serve who only stand and wait.” John Milton
We should live what we preach. I like your philosophy but why not preach this to the republicans also.
I am only a loving child of “God” and not democrat or repulican.
You said it so eloguently. You give me hope that someone of your character will surely help to save our Nation.
God bless you Bishop Jackson ! Truly the grace of God
brought me to this site. Only recently, I have come to realize that both white and black people have become
so afraid of making the ” wrong ” remark to one another
many of us have decided, albeit not consciously, to refrain from interacting with each other at all. We are infinitely poorer for this. Before this hated political
correctness became a national religion, we laughed, joked, went to weddings and funerals, and family reunions. Yes, we even disagreed, sometimes vehemently but never hatefully. As groups we knew that all of us had kings and slaves, sinners and saints in our histories and proudly acknowledged those facts. I
pray that this organization and others like it will
help us to return to an American path of hard work
and determination to hold the precious United States Constitution tightly to our hearts and become once more a people who when the chips are down are truly and
at the core ” E Pluribus Unum ” one out of many by
God’s grace. God Bless America.