Erickson claims Jennings “encouraged a sexual relationship between a boy and an adult”

From Erickson's December 9 RedState.com post:

We're rapidly getting to the point where it is easier to talk about the perversions Kevin Jennings has not taught kids than to talk about the ones he has.

To review, the man encouraged a sexual relationship between a boy and an adult who solicited the boy for sex in a bus station.

FACT: Student was of legal age of consent when counseled by Jennings; no evidence Jennings “encouraged a sexual relationship between boy and an adult”

The student -- whom Jennings referred to as “Brewster” -- was 16 years old, the legal age of consent in Massachusetts, at the time he discussed with Jennings a sexual encounter he had with an older man. Jennings has said that after “Brewster” told him, “I met somebody in the bus station bathroom and I went home with him,” Jennings “didn't know what to say. Knew I should say something quickly, so I finally -- my best friend had just died of AIDS the week before -- I looked at Brewster and said, 'You know, I hope you knew to use a condom.' ” In his 1994 book, Jennings wrote that when the student told him the “story about his involvement with an older man,” Jennings “listened, sympathized, and offered advice.”

Erickson advances smear that Jennings “supports NAMBLA”

From Erickson's post:

And Jennings supports NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association -- a group that advocates pedophilia.

FACT: Conservatives have used 1997 Jennings speech to falsely link Jennings to NAMBLA

Numerous conservatives have attempted to falsely link Jennings to NAMBLA based on a 1997 speech in which Jennings praised gay rights activist Harry Hay, who had spoken in support of the organization. In fact, like many obituaries written about Hay upon his death in 2002, Jennings was touting Hay as a gay civil rights pioneer for his role in helping start “the first ongoing gay rights groups in America” in 1948. Jennings' remarks during that speech include no mentions of NAMBLA

Erickson previously advanced smears against Jennings

As Media Matters for America has noted, in an October 9 RedState.com post, Erickson wrote that Jennings “is a profoundly sick and immoral human being -- a proponent of statutory rape, an opponent of the Boy Scouts of America, and a zealous advocate of NAMBLA” and that Jennings “encourages predatory relationships between young boys and grown men.”