Hannity Regurgitates Smears Against ‘Openly Gay’ Safe Schools Head Kevin Jennings

Fox News’ Sean Hannity went after former head of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Kevin Jennings last night, arguing that the “openly gay” Jennings was not qualified for his position because he “advocated promoting homosexuality in our schools” and wrote the forward to a book called “Queering Education.” Jennings — the former head of GLSEN — stepped down from the administration earlier this month to run a national nonprofit group called Be the Change, but not before publicly declaring that his critics “completely failed.”

Hannity took umbrage at this suggestion and hosted a panel to regurgitate his debunked smears against Jennings:

HANNITY: All we did here for example on HANNITY was report all of the news that America was not hearing anywhere else. Like how the former schoolteacher and founder of Glisten, had advocated promoting homosexuality in our schools. Or how we’ve been accused of not reporting an incident where an underage student told him that he was having sex with an older person. It was later revealed that the student claimed that he was 15 at the time. Which is the legal age of consent in Massachusetts where the incident occurred. What about how Jennings reportedly told members of the religious right to quote, “drop dead” in a 2000 speech or how he cursed God in his 2006 memoir. Mama’s boy preacher’s son by writing, quote, “what had he done for me, other than make me feel shame and guilt, squat, screw you buddy, I don’t need you around anymore.” And lastly, he wrote the forward to a book called, “Queering Elementary Education.”

Watch a compilation, including Hannity’s use of Tony Perkins to accuse Jennings of spreading homosexuality:

Click over here and here for Media Matters’ thorough debunk of Hannity’s claims.