OPINION

Homosexual Activist Kevin Jennings Leaving Obama Administration

Townhall Staff
Townhall Staff  |  May 23, 2011
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(CNSNews.com) – Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and head of the Obama administration’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools since July 2009, is leaving his post to lead a non-profit coalition-building organization.

Jennings, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, is slated to be the next president and CEO of Be the Change, which “creates national issue based campaigns by organizing coalitions of non-profits, social entrepreneurs, policymakers, private sector and civic leaders, academics, and citizens,” according to a press release issued by the organization on May 19 about hiring Jennings.

Jennings, scheduled to start his new job in July 2011, will replace Alan Khazei, who founded Be the Change and ran an unsuccessful campaign against now-Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) to win the seat left by the late Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).