Anti-Gay Factions, Unleash the Hounds

No doubt you are wondering why a Wisconsinite, such as myself, would be writing to you. I am obviously not apart of your district, I'm not one who has voted for you, I don't even live in your state. Yet here I am, and the why is simple, you are using anti-gay sentimentality to posture a position against someone who has helped make schools safer for the LGBSTQ community.

Mr. Jennings wrote the foreword for a book titled Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue About Sexualities and Schooling. Throughout his career, Mr. Jennings has made it his mission to establish special protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students to the exclusion of all other students. The totality of Mr. Jennings' career has been to advocate for public affirmation of homosexuality. There is more to safe and drug free schools than can be accomplished from the narrow view of Mr. Jennings who has, for more than 20 years, almost exclusively focused on promoting the homosexual agenda. (October 15, 2009 letter to President Obama)

This brazen insult and your position are clear. You believe there is a gay agenda, which has narrowed the view of one Mr. Jennings. I say you are the one with the narrow view. Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Bisexual students are at the top of the leader board for being bullied and picked on. Creating safe zones for LGBSTQ students is essential, and having a community that is accepting (that is affirmed in understanding) of the LGBSTQ community is vital to changing the attitudes that these students face everyday. Mr. Jennings' efforts did not set apart the parisexual community; the parisexual community demanded no less through their need the attention that he afforded to it. Not because they wanted to, but because it was necessary. You are correct to say there is more to safe drug free schools than the affirmation of homosexuality, but there is no bigger hurtle to jump than to get a school, a school district, and a community body to accept gay students. And since some 60% of violence in schools is related to anti-gay sentimentality that creates an unsafe space for students who are of an alternate sexuality, I would think that a truly concerned congressman such as yourself would be promoting, not denigrating the efforts that Mr. Jennings has put forth. By addressing the problems that the LGBSTQ community faces he also directly and indirectly addresses all types of discrimination, violence, and abuse that exists.

In all fairness I have not read Mr. Jennings books from which you paraphrase and accuse him of such issues as ignoring sexual abuse and ignoring the dangers of drug abuse. If it is truly an issue in their regard to remove him I have no grudge against your questioning his position for them. However, forgive me for not accepting your position or interpretation of his publications as the soul opinion on which to base my own. It is clear you have a marked agenda of your own against Mr. Jennings and the LGBSTQ community to which you are speaking against and I will make my own opinion on the matter of his books later and on my own.
For now let me say this to you, learn acceptance and grow out of this hateful nuance of attitude you exhibit. Your assumptions are harsh and inaccurate, your demeanor rude and uncaring, and your actions speak louder than anything else I know of against the LGBSTQ community of your state of Iowa. To be any more against this community you would have to wallow in the playground dirt and strike them with your own fists as any elementary student would do at recess, spouting "bugger face" and "queer".

In Sincerest of Regards, Kristoffer Martin