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Six reasons why Moms for Liberty is an extremist organization
Moms for Liberty extremists are making our schools â and our democracy â worse.
thehill.com
Here are six reasons why Moms for Liberty is an extremist organization:
1. Featured speakers at the âJoyful Warriors Summitâ included Katharine Gorka, an anti-Muslim activist, who has advocated âshutting down radical mosquesâ in the U.S.; North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who believes teaching children about sexual orientation and gender identity is child abuse, homosexuality is âfilthâ and the transgender rights movement is âdemonicâ and âfull of the Antichrist spiritâ; and KrisAnne Hall, who compared the U.S. Capitol police to Nazi SS troops and claims the government of the United States âhas no authority outside the PERMISSION of the sheriffâ and âis just as much of a federal power as France or Texas within your state.â
2. Prominent members of Moms for Liberty have close ties to the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, QAnon and white Christian nationalists. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio once boasted that Moms for Liberty is âthe gestapo with vaginas.â
3. The front cover of âThe Parent Brigade,â the newsletter of the Hamilton County, Ind., chapter of Moms for Liberty, recently carried a quote from Adolf Hitler: âHe alone, who OWNS the youth, gains the future.â At a media training session at last weekâs summit, Christian Ziegler, chair of Floridaâs Republican Party (and Bridget Zieglerâs husband), questioned the decision of chapter leaders to apologize: âThe media is not your friend ⌠Never apologize. Apologizing makes you weak.â
4. Tiffany Justiceâs confrontations with teachers were âso disruptive and disrespectful,â administrators threatened to bar her from the school. The chair of the Monroe County, Pa., chapter of Moms for Liberty was arrested for harassment; the head of communications for the Lenoke County, Ark., chapter allegedly threatened librarians with gun violence; a restraining order was issued to the chair of the Livingston County, Mich., chapter after she reportedly told school board members, âWeâre coming after you. Take it as a threat. Call the FBI. I donât care.â
5. The chair of the El Paso County, Colo., chapter raised the hypothetical of a teacher telling a tomboy, âit might be time to transition. Letâs go talk to the school therapist. Letâs go talk to a physician. Letâs do this.â She believes âteachers, unions and the presidentâ are engaged in a coordinated effort to make children trans and gay to âbreak down the family unit, conservative values,â and âslowly erode constitutional rights.â However, she does not know of anyone who transitioned because of social pressure.
6. The Williamson County, Tenn., chapter of Moms for Liberty alleged a book about Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington promotes âanti-American, anti-White, anti-Mexicanâ instruction, singling out a photo of segregated water fountains and an image of firefighters hosing down Black children. The chapter also demanded the removal of âThe Story of Ruby Bridges,â about a six-year old who integrated a school in Louisiana in 1960.