"Moms for Liberty is
an American right-wing political
organization founded on 2021 that advocates
against school curriculums that mention LGBT
rights, race and ethnicity, critical race
theory, and discrimination, while multiple
chapters have also campaigned to ban books
that address gender and sexuality from
school libraries. The group has also
campaigned for LGBT students to be kept
separated from straight and cisgender
students. The group began by campaigning
against COVID-19 protections in schools,
including mask and vaccine mandates.
The group is
influential within the Republican Party.
Many of the group's chapters across the U.S.
have forged close ties to right-wing
extremist groups, including the Proud Boys
and Three Percenters, as well as sovereign
citizen, QAnon, and Christian nationalist
organizations. In 2023, the Southern Poverty
Law Center, a civil rights organization that
tracks extremists, termed Moms for Liberty a
far-right extremist organization.
Moms for Liberty has been criticized for
harassment, for deepening divisions among
parents, for making students' education more
difficult, and for having close ties to the
Republican Party rather than being a genuine
grassroots effort."
"Arizona
Superintendent
of Public
Instruction Tom
Horne struck
an alliance
with Moms
for Liberty
supporters
at an East
Valley event
Thursday
evening over
what he said
was a shared
goal:
electing
conservatives
to school
boards in
2024 "That's
going to be
my main
occupation
for 2024,"
Horne said."
[ . . . ]
"The group's
stated goals
are to
advocate for
"parental
rights" in
education,
as well as
to "stop
woke
indoctrination." In
June, it was
added to the
Southern
Poverty Law
Center's
list of
extremist
groups. The
Alabama-based
civil rights
organization
called it an
“antigovernment
organization”
that spreads
conspiracy
theories and
uses its
"multiple
social media
platforms to
target
teachers and
school
officials,
advocate for
the
abolition of
the
Department
of Education
... and
spread
hateful
imagery and
rhetoric
against the
LGBTQ
community."
Sep. 15,
2023
Moms for Liberty erupted into applause when their co-founder said one of their members quoted Hitler in their newsletter. “I stand with that mom!”
Jul. 7, 2023
Because Quoting The Führer Is The Thing For Nazi's To Do.
From the front page of "Moms for Liberty" first newsletter. June 2023
"A Moms
for Liberty chapter
has
apologized
after
receiving
blowback for
quoting
Hitler in
its
newsletter,
but they
still
justified
using the
quotation."
[ . . . ]
"Moms for
Liberty is
enjoying
newfound
influence
within the
Republican
Party. The
group has
backed bills
banning
transgender
women and
girls from
playing
women’s
sports, and
encouraged
book bans.
Their annual
summit this
year will
feature
multiple
2024
presidential
candidates,
including Donald
Trump, Nikki
Haley, Ron
DeSantis,
Vivek
Ramaswamy,
and Robert
F. Kennedy
Jr."
"Just in
time for
Pride Month,
a newly
identified
anti-LGBTQ+
group has
set its
sights on
the
Northwest —
with a
vengeance.
According to
data
released
this month
by the
Southern
Poverty Law
Center, Moms
For Liberty is
now rooted
in five
Washington
counties,
with two
more in
Oregon and
another in
Montana."
"More than
two years
into a
conservative
push against
teaching
about Black
history,
literature
and gender
identity in
public
schools, the
Southern
Poverty Law
Center has
concluded
that a dozen
so-called
"parental
rights"
groups
behind the
movement are
extremist.
The civil
rights
organization
particularly
focuses on
the largest
of these,
the
nonprofit Moms
for Liberty,
in its
annual Year
in Hate &
Extremism
report for
2022, saying
that it
advances an
anti-student
inclusion
agenda."
"Moms for
Liberty's
ambitious
plan to
influence
legislation,
as revealed
by internal
documents
obtained by
Media
Matters, is
proving
successful
in states
across the
country. Moms
for Liberty is
best known
for its
efforts to
loudly
overtake and
intimidate
public
schools, but
unbeknownst
to many the
group was
terrorizing
school
boards while
simultaneously
planting a
sophisticated
state
legislative
advocacy
infrastructure
that it’s
now using to
strategically
attack LGBTQ
rights."
"A Florida
high school
will dish
out refunds
after
parents and
students
whined that
the yearbook
staff went
woke and
included
“inappropriate”
LGBTQ+
content in
its annual
publication.
This spring,
Lyman High
School, part
of Seminole
County
Public
Schools,
released a
256-page
yearbook.
Two of those
pages
spotlighted
LGBTQ+
students and
highlighted
gender
identity
terms, like
“genderfluid”
and
“nonbinary,”
according to
the Orlando
Sentinel. It
was enough
to send
Seminole
County Moms
for Liberty Chair
Jessica
Tillmann
into a hissy
fit, and she
submitted a
complaint"
"A prominent
member of
the
conservative
parent
group Moms
for Liberty has
claimed that
US president
Joe Biden,
teachers and
unions, are
working to
turn people
LGBTQ+. "
In late
March,
Carolyn gave
her
permission
for Tony to
start
counseling
with the
group, and
Tony felt
that there
was light at
the end of
the tunnel.
Then, two
months
later, out
of nowhere,
his mother
revoked her
permission.
Carolyn
tells VICE
News she’ll
never forget
how Tony
responded to
her ban:
“Mom, you
just killed
me.” Later
that day,
Tony
attempted to
die by
suicide. Carolyn’s
decision
didn’t
spring out
of nowhere: Moms
for Liberty,
an
organization
that calls
itself a
“parental
rights
group,” had
convinced
Carolyn that
the Rainbow
Youth
Project was
trying to
“convince
Tony to have
his private
parts
removed and
changed.”
"Book bans
are pretty
much the
worst, and
when it
comes to the
worst of the
worst, the
111-page Moms
for Liberty BOOK
of BOOKS
document,
which claims
to provide
parental
guidance for
controversial
children’s
books, is
beneath the
barrel’s
bottom,
somewhere
deep in the
sewer, under
a layer of
crust formed
by many,
many flushed
turds."
"This week
across the
book banning
social media
world, a new
guidebook to
inappropriate
books across
the state of
Iowa has
been
circulating.
This 111
page
guidebook,
put together
by Moms
For Liberty in
Polk County,
reiterates
that their
quest to
remove
inappropriate
books from
schools is
not about
book
banning.
Indeed, they
use the
Stephen King
philosophy
to suggest
that just
because they
do not want
books in
schools does
not mean
that
students
cannot get
them from
public
libraries
(conveniently
leaving out
their quest
to get those
books
removed in
public
libraries,
too)."
"Earlier
this month,
an episode
of MSNBC’s
Field Report
with Paola
Ramos
featured Moms
for Liberty Miami
president
Eulalia
Jimenez, who
believes
COVID
vaccines are
“poison” and
that there
are
“children
being
smuggled
through
underground
tunnels for
the
enjoyment of
demons”, as
well as
other
members of
her chapter.
In one group
interview,
member
Crystal
Alonso told
Ramos that
discussion
with pupils
about being
LGBTQ+
should not
be an “open
thing in
classrooms”,
and said she
believes
queer kids
should be
confined to
“separate
classrooms”.
“Like for
example
children
with autism,
Down’s
syndrome,
they have to
have special
IEP
[individualized
education
plan]
meetings
with a
counselor,”
she said."
"members of Moms
for Liberty started
showing up
at school
board
meetings
right after
that
election
“and I had
people
following me
around,
following me
to my car,
following me
to my car
screaming at
me," she
said. "I had
private
investigators
following me
around,
sending
death
threats to
me.” Jenkins
said the
situation
grew out of
control in
March 2021
when
Descovich
posted the
district’s
LGBTQ
anti-discrimination
guidance to
her Facebook
page. The
guidance,
meant to
help
teachers and
administrators
navigate
LGBTQ issues
raised by
students,
was not new
though the
district was
making
updates at
the time."
Jul. 19,
2022
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