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Get a life Tony Perkins. Hating gays is so 1980s Christianity. Take your witchhunt somewhere where it's relevant. Maybe you're more suited for the Middle East somewhere.

Another classy choice by our idiot in chief, uhbama. uhbama is a disgrace, and so are the idiots he hangs around with.

Wait... He's been attacked by the right wing religious nuts??.. The horror, the horror. Wouldnt anyone think that is because he's gay right??.. I mean, we've never seen the frc attacking gay people now do you??.. Strange, is almost like the repuglicans and their right wing followers wakes up every day looking for someone to hate. Is their mantra. "What? You are gay, black, hispanic or anything other than white christian?. Then we hate you of course". Thats their prayer everyday.

Sean Calamity Hannity is NOT trustworthy. He is so biased and so far to the right that Hitler would be afraid of him. Everyone knows that Republicans are not educated people. They depend on uneducated hillbillys who still think the McCoys and Hatfields are at war, for their base supporters. Sean Hannity exagerrates the lies he blindly believes on FAKEs News. In fact, Hannity believes that he is sinless and above all wrong. He is just a dumb backwards idiot with a big mouth and no brains.

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The atmosphere 20 years ago is different from today. Reporting the incident would have outed the fact the young man was gay. Life would have been very hard for the student after that. It's hard enough today, but it would have been a horrible situation then.

He is gay; to ultra-conservatives and the Beck fringe movement this disqualifies him from doing anything. I think it is time to start digging deep into the lives these "righteous" people looking out for America. Wonder what we'll find?

With fox NOISE, the FACTS NEVER quite meet the accusation!
They don't allow FACTS to stand in the way of their agenda.
What's new about that?

These people never run out of lies to tell.

What's really sad is they hide behind Jesus to commit all their evil programs. If I were a Christan I would be very upset with these people disgracing my faith.

Why do you real Christians allow them to continue to get away with this stuff?

I do not say this lightly.

But it does have to be said.

Tony Perkins and Sean Hannity have proven themselves to be self-righteous, sleazy, opportunistic parasites whose sole purpose in existence is to incite some Americans to hate other Americans.

They're like any virus that feeds off a free society that grants them right to be horrible human beings with impunity.

The virus that is Tony Perkins has followers who will feed him no matter what, but the virus that is Sean Hannity can be defeated if his rating at Fixed "News" continue to drop and advertisers start abandoning him the way they fled from that other virus that is Glenn Beck.

I suggest Mr Perkins look at what Stutory Rape laws entail and also look to his friends and comteporaries- yes I mean conservatives before looking beyond them. the old phrase clean your own house should tell him that. And if it sbible quote she wants, he wihtout sin , throw the first stone. Old proverb- he in galss houses ( congress) should not throw stones.
What is he afraid of or what is he hiding.
Me thinks ye dust protest too much!

Didn't Jennings deny this incident ever happened? He has just admitted to it since the recording of him talking about it. In the recording Jenning's does say the boy was 15!

No this isn't a target- this was out there and again the Administration allowed the man to get paid knowing Fox would catch it. They have nothing else to do but look for a President Obam flaw.

fire him. another all star buddy of Obama's. who vets these people?

The FOR-SURE way of know that you are doing EXACTLY the right thing is when you have Fox News (Those terms are mutually exclusive, right?), Sean Insanity, and Tom Perkins (perhaps the LEAST Christ-like man in America) calling for you to resign.

Mr.Jennings,stand firm. Don't even acknowledge their comments. You are doing GOOD..not bad. You do the right thing becuase it's RIGHT. You have my support.

It doesn't matter if the kid was gay or straight, a kid tells him he/she had sex with an older adult he should have reported it. Period!

The Family Research Council once again demonstrates why it will never be taken seriously: Twisting this story into a claim that Mr. Jennings approves of "child molestation" is not only outrageous, but patently absurd. Thinking Americans know better.

Jennings disgusts me. Anyone who has even a trace of shame should be shocked by what he did.

This is made up hysteria. Pure bigotry at work. I hope Obama stands behind this man and even tells people to shut up.

And they harp about the other side not getting their priorities straight.

As fellow Coloradan, we are truly sorry and embarrassed for Tony Perkins. He and all of his F-o-F tribe are a band of hypocritics . Instead of using their religion as basis for creating good will and caring for those less fortunate, they use their massive financial lobbyist power to try to bend politics for their own personal benefit. Truly, they should be ashamed of themselves for using the word of God as a business slogan.

So Fox "News" twists the facts to support their own agenda. So how is this different from any other day?

It's too bad conservatives don't have an actual news organization out there that they can learn truth from.

When Tony Perkins or Sean Hannity express anger about Larry Craig, Mark Foley, David Vitter, Mark Sanford, Newt Gingrich, John Ensign, or any other Republican who has been caught in scandal, then maybe they will have some credibility.

When they go after anyone connected to Obama, no matter how distant, and dig up anything with a whiff of scandal, no matter how trivial or how long ago, and then make a big fuss and angrily demand resignations, it's nothing more than hypocrisy.

These guys are pathetic. Why anybody should listen to anything they have to say is beyond me.

I'm from Louisiana and am still residing in the state. I'm so tired of Tony Perkins. I'm thinking that it may be no coincidence that he and David Duke resemble each other VERY strongly. I simply wish he would go away......and take a few dozen others with him!

Jennings handled the 15-year-old male student incident poorly, to say the least. Did he break existing laws in doing so? Had it been a 15-year-old girl being sexually victimized by an older man, would he have acted in the same manner? I think not.

I don't know about elsewhere, but in California schools we have a legal mandate to report such sexually predatory acts to Child Protective Services and the police. Why didn't Jennings do that?

Makes me question Jennings' overall judgment.

As a gay man, this makes me sick. If gay kids would have had protection then maybe it would have been easier to counsel the kid into seeking help for the situation. Tony Perkins needs to quite preaching hate. We gay americans don't want everyone to be gay. We just want people who have struggled with their sexuality the way we have to have an advocate. I wish I would have had someone like that to have come out to. The debate and hatred toward homosexuals is out of control. We are just people that want to contribute to our communities and be happy. Have homes jobs, travel. Will and Grace is not all of us. Some of us are students that work full time and have a partner who works as a school counselor and doesn't get home till 8pm from back to school night. America, we are a part of you. We have worked for the greater good of this nation, we have died for you. We have excepted you even when you haven't excepted us. We did not leave. But we want our space to be who we are. We are liberal, conservative, apathetic, christian, jew, muslim, white, black, and every other thing one can be. But gay seems to define us more then anything else. We are just americans.

Ignore the Right's insinuations. They are angry and hate everyone that is not like them....white and right wing religious zealots.

Perkins doesn't like him cause he is gay, period. If the guy admitted to having not wiped a little tinkle off the seat once when he was six this Republican backed hatchet-punk would try to use that. Really dispicable but you won't see too many Republicans calling him out.

It's almost impossible to be kind-hearted, respectful, and loving while still doing the right thing in theses situations. Do you make a big deal of it and go after someone or do you console and offer advice and let the student make the decision. I think it's in bad form that FOX would bring this sort of thing up to label the man as condoning statutory rape, but it doesn't surprise me. Fox can be despicable.

"Stupid is as Stupid does" Republican party=Forest Gump

The word usage and placing make a decent apologia – but this is clearly not a serious reporter! CNN should be almost as embarrassed by this "report " as we Americans should be that our new President found Jenkins to be an appropriate policy director and role model for American kids.

He should be "eating crow"-he is a mandated reporter and whether or not it was consensual, heterosexual or homosexual intimacy and the young man was a minor, this man should have reported it as child sexual abuse! What a wonderful role model this man is to not even protect an abused child....

Perkins and his entourage of social conservatives should either state policy issues or concerns they have with Jennings or put a stop to unfounded slandering of his name. While these Republicans may have intolerant religious convictions, their immature complaints should not, and cannot transfer into the political spectrum. Until Perkins can learn empathy and stop indulging in his own inflated sense of self and his warped sense of morality, the educated sector of the nation will have to put up with his idiotic ravings.

The American people should be outraged by the behaviour of the republican party. The party of hate will destroy your country. You have a real chance to show the world how great you can be, but not if you keep supporting these republican fools.

An older guy could have been 16 for all we know??? 17??? Maybe the kid made it up because he was trying to FIND HIMSELF!!! The kid obviously was not FORCED to have sex!! The teacher was 24 – He mentioned it in his novel?? Where is the kid today – probably GAY and living happily ever after??
inSANNITY and BECKy thrives on disrupting anything that has to do with the Obama Administration!!! WHAT IF this young kid needed to hear what he heard at the time!!! WHAT IF Jennings said something different that this kid did not want to hear and he committed suicide as a result!!!?? WHAT IF this kid wanted to hear that it was okay to be GAY!!! Come on now, THINK about it – 20 years ago GAY was still in the closet. I am sure Jennings learned something from this – he had 20 years to think about it!!!

LEAVE IT ALONE!!! NO law was broken!! For all we know he could have been ‘anticipating’… JEEZ

Welcome to the twilight zone.

Imagine if the student were a young girl.

Do you really want teachers to, even passively, encourage YOUR children to have sex with old men?

This guy was so proud of this, he risked putting it in his book – he bragged about it. Only after somebody said, "isn't that kind of like statutory rape or something?" did Jennings decide he might want to back away from his position.

People are covering for him because they're up to their eyeballs in the health care "reform" scam. They’re afraid the negative publicity will erode the dwindling support for the scam. For a start, they’re trying to pull the plug enough grandmas to divert $500 billion to greedy insurance execs.

These are the same folks who are looking the other way while Obama dangles your kids in front of the Taliban – just long enough to pass the health care "reform" scam.

These appointed Czars are really worrisome. This guy would never pass a background investigation to work for the FBI, CIA or Police, so why does the White House appoint him CZAR and let him around our children. I don't care if he was 24 when he bragged in his book about his advice to a high school kid, a zebra does not change it stripes!!
Hope this is another one down the drain! too many good and honest people out there that would be great at this job!

Did this come from Beck the one who will stop at nothing. How long before people are going to stand up and defend this country against such rectoric and hateful acts in an attempt to destroy the President. I for one will teach my children to stand up for this country. This will probably not be shown just because I listed Beck's name; I for one am not afraid of him and do not listen to his lies.

Here we go again. Please make sure that you put in the story that the young man was 16 , the age of consent in Massachusetts at that time so no crime was committed because it was a consensual relationship. I think that the reason that the media jumps on this type of thing is the fact that it involves homosexual sex . I hope that Mr. Jennings stays and fight this crap that is being thrown at him. Telling that student that it wa a mistake to have unprotected sex in the 80's was good advice since it was the height of the AIDS epidemic. I am tired of Faux Noise smearing good people and the so called"liberal" media just following the smear and not reporting facts.

And republiccans are complaining about Obama wasting his time. What is wrong with these people? People want to get work done and all republicans can do is whine.

The student in question was 16 and that was the age of consent at that time in that state. It was not illegal, even if we find it inappropriate. There would have been nothing to report to authorities because it wasn't against the law. Possibly he could have referred the student for counseling, but if he had, there would be a question fo privacy.

Republicans need to quit trying to get as many Dems fired as they can and take care of their own. They are living in a glass house and have nothing positive to contribute lately. They need to use their energy to make the world better instead of trying to tear it down.

I am an independent that is repulsed by the Republican party as it stands now–crazies and extremists being negative about EVERYTHING President Obama does, even if they have done it before.

This character assassination stuff has got to stop. Can we, for once, get all of the facts before dismissing a qualified person? I just don't get it. I was raised to respect and find good in others. You can keep the family values stuff. It fits when convenient and I refuse to bring up my family to exclude certain "persuasions", which is really what this is all about.

Republicans are fixated on gays because they are closet homosexuals. Just look at Hannity–he screams 'in the closet'.

serously get over it everyone. the climate was so different 20 years ago, how can anyone be critical of what anyone said or did on such a touchy subject. it would be better if everyone learned to get over their homophobia so that when future incidents occur those faced with the problem wont have to agonize over what is best to do.

I don't know about 20 years ago, but today it is a felony for a teacher NOT to report cases of abuse or rape.

I forgot about Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. He should head up US Histroy and the constitution about separation of Church & State and of course the freedom of religion.

Look at the kind of people this President surrounds himself with. Wake up America, time is running out and you need to get a clue here.

GOP Witch Hunt.

So, an Administrative Official now has to resign due to a mis-step 20+ years ago, during a different time, different expectations and training?

Where does this nonsense stop?

And why doesn't this type of "Accountability" seem to hold true for GOP Governors, such as Sanford and Ensign, who have also shown very, very poor judgement.

Oh, yeah.... Jennings is a Democrat and Gay. He's gotta go. Snark.

Whatever the truth, just one more shady character in Obama's zoo.

Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house.

So, following this logic, does being bigotted and not respecting other people's civil rights in the last twenty years or so disqualify one from office as well? I assume, then, that most of the conservative and radical Right in this country, including the current Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, should be banned from office, let alone voted down.

What a joke. How soon they forget about the guy in California caught on an open mike bragging about his affair after being given the highest honor of family values.

As for Hannityity, O'Riely, Beck, and Rush. Wouldn't they all be great roll models in our schools. The Fox News group could teach proper conversation eddicute and Rush could teach "Just Say No" to drugs.

What a group of hateful, unforgiving, evangelistic hypocrites.

"The Department also provided a list of the millions of dollars worth of safety grants that have been awarded by Jennings' office since he joined the administration."

Great...this Czar gets to hand out money. I thought the reason they dident have to be confirmed by the senate was that they were only "advisors" to the president.

He is the school safety czar who tells children its ok to have sex with older gay men. Super...this is why we elected Obama right?

I am firmly convinced this will never end. There is no morality to these attacks and it does not matter the makeup of a person's
carachter. What matters to these right wing nuts is that the people they are attacking are not the "kind" of people they approve of. they lost the election so now they are going to do what they did to Bill Clinton, distrupt, accuse, create smoke screens to destroy those they do not deem appropriate. Anything to delegitimize a legally elected President and those highly qualified people he selected to assist him in moving the country forward. In a democracy it is perfectly acceptable to question our leaders, it is a citizens duty to do so, but there is nothing legitimate about carachter assassination, conspiracy theories and obstruction. They are so obsessed with the Presidents destruction they would happily watch the country go along with it, tear us to shreds, watch us collectively fail, just to say they were right. I dont know hen this ends but intelligent people have got to take a stand against this kind of vitriol. Feel free to dislike the policies, advance civil discourse on valid disagreements but for the sake of our future respect the office

I wish Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council would concentrate more on what families can do to bolster that critical unit in society, instead of going head-hunting to weaken the current Administration's efforts to provide healthy learning environments across the USA.

When I was little I was told a Bible stroy about religious leaders who brought a woman to Jesus to have him agree that it was ok to stone her to death. Instead, he spared the woman from death- and did not judge her- by telling her would be murders "any of you without sin cast the first stone." I am really sick of these modern day Pharisees looking for any reason to "stone" anyone in Obama's administration. Hannity, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and yes we all live in glass houses. It is like we are living another McCarthy era. Well I am sick of it. Hannity et.al, it is time to become a part of the solution, not continue to be a part of the problem.

Mr. Jennings taught at my high school and was one of the best, most respected teachers I have ever seen. I am extremely proud of his accomplishments and am certain that he told that student exactly what he needed to hear. Mr. Jennings embodies what all educators should aspire to and should not be subjected to this bigoted politics of distraction. If Republicans actually cared about the welfare of children, they would stop the lies and come up with real plans for health care, education reform and the environment.

Sorry but it's crime for a teacher or health care worker to knowingly not report a sex crime. The author of this article can leverage his liberal bias and call it 'making hay,' I call it honest assessment.

If the 15 year old student were a girl having sex with a 24 year old man, I wonder if this individual would have come to a different conclusion. In either situation it is nothing more than molestation and statutory rape. His defense that he didn't have 'training' to recognize this is ludicrous.

Hannity promotes hate,... stop reporting every soundbyte from the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter and the rest, and eventually they'll fade away

Bullying never stops if you're gay in this country. Pathetic.

The allegations don't match the facts. Why would anyone be surprised with a right wingnut witch hunt?

"The facts? They don't necessarily match the accusations."

So how CNN is/was he not guilty of condoning "statuatory rape."

When is the no longer mainstream media going to stop making excuses for this administration and the CZARS that he has hired where at least 10 of them have checkered pasts?

Does everyone get a Polanski when they screw up royally nowadays where liberals can explain it away or in the case of most of the media just IGNORE IT?

He admits NOW that he made a mistake ONLY because those mean rascals at Fox etc, etc, etc are DOING ACTUAL RESEARCH and reporting the facts (see Van Jones and ACORN to name two).

If you were still a legit NEWS SOURCE like you used to be CNN, you would do some research on the CZARS and fairly look into the good and the bad, they used to call it reporting, but in the age of Obama it is called cheerleading.

The man sounds uniquely qualified and two decades wiser ... asking him to step down makes about as much sense as kicking a soldier out of his/or her service to our nation because they are honest enough to admit they are gay while in the military! The far-right needs to delve into some real issues like all those cousins marrying their cousins in the GOP!

It's time for us to ask for Sean Hannity's resignation.

Perkins said Thursday, "You do not need special training to know child molestion is wrong."

That sums it up. Can we find someone for this job who understands that minors having sex with adults is wrong?

I would hope in 20 years that all of us have gained wisdom and knowledge. I am sure this same man would not act and say the same things that he did than. Let's focus on healing OUR COUNTRY and not tearing in farther apart.

Well not matter how false Hannity's claims are, the sheep who watch Fox News will believe it anyway, because, well...they're sheep....oh, and unintelligent fools.

If we start listening to the likes of Tony Perkins and Sean Hannity, this country is in big trouble. The holier than thou, gay haters are once again spreading their Christian hatred.

The young man was 16, so no statutory rape cover-up.
Sean is jealous of Beck and each are hunting for Obama scalps.

Fox has only enough room for two ego-maniacal right wing blow-hards.

Is this a joke? Are Republicans really this desperate?

how could he fail to report such an incident? With judgement like that,
we can't have him in educaton.

As usual Republicans/conservatives/right wingers are more interested in destroying everyone who is associated with President Obama without any regard to what exactly it is they might do for the country. They want to hold something 21 years ago that has nothing to do with anything against him why? I certainly hope that the President and Democrats have wizened up to their games and thwart this attack and the others the Republicans have planned. Their agenda is to destroy everyone around President Obama and eventually destroy him and the country. They hate America and it shows more and more each day.

Oh PLEEEEEEEEEZ Rethugs get over it. The man was 24 years old and that was 21 years ago.

You live and you learn.

Hannity need to arrested for being indignant.

They don't have anything else to complain about. He who is without sin, let him throw the first stone. Geeze, I sneezed without using a Kleenex when I was a kid. Book me!