A Sept. 28 WorldNetDaily article by Bob Unruh follows the lead of Fox News and the Washington Times by uncritically repeating their claims that “radical homosexual activist” Kevin Jennings, President Obama’s safe school czar, “violated a state law” by failing to report that when he was a high school counselor, he “was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an ‘older man.’ At the very least, statutory rape occurred.”
In fact, the evidence cited by the Times and Fox News, which Unruh uncritically repeats — an audiotape of Jennings relating the story of the student in question during a 2000 speech — was edited by both organizations to omit the fact that Jennings expressed concern to the student over sexually transmitted diseases because, he said, “my best friend had just died of AIDS the week before.” Further, the audio cited by Fox and the Times does not specifically indicate, as they suggest, that the teen was involved with an “older man” or that sex between them actually occurred (though that can be plausibly inferred).