It is right in our own backyard, Farmington Valley Area,” to host the mommies.
They want to groom our children in the “Republican Way” detest those who are different. They want to bring that book banning here to Connecticut.Moms for Liberty: A ‘potent force,’ a ‘hate group’ aiming for school board control, holding CT rally.
Hartford Courant
By Christopher Keating
October 15, 2023With an innocuous-sounding name that is unknown to many voters, a group called Moms for Liberty has been growing rapidly in influence in conservative circles and the national Republican Party.
After starting in 2021 in Florida to battle against mask and vaccine mandates in public schools, the parental rights group says it has since grown to 285 chapters in 45 states.
Now, their message has spread to Hartford County, where the local chapter is hosting a controversial national guest speaker in the Farmington Valley on Oct. 21. Avon Democrats have planned a protest rally outside the event against the Moms’ conservative views. The Moms have become so contentious that they have spawned a counter-group called STOP Moms for Liberty.
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“Mothers in the Republican Party have felt that it’s very important to get more control over what’s happening on local school boards and what’s going into the education of their children,” said Gary Rose, an author and longtime political science professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield. “The Moms for Liberty movement is actually a potent force in grassroots politics today and is something that we’re going to hear more of.”
Rose added, “So much of it has come from the cultural, moral issues — the woke movement that is now affecting public schools. Gender identity, critical race theory, mask mandates, vaccines — it’s all related to what’s happening in public schools, and mothers are very concerned about what their kids are hearing.”
In Avon, the Moms group is hosting an event entitled: “Symposium on parental rights — what’s the controversy?”
The main speaker, author James Lindsay, is described as a “leading critic of critical race theory,” according to a copy of the invitation that was obtained by The Courant.
Lindsay is a controversial author who was banned from Twitter before being reinstated after billionaire Elon Musk purchased the platform. He has been panned by critics for promoting conspiracy theories and is the author of “Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis.” He has been a guest on Fox News and the Joe Rogan podcast.
He was also the author of “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity ― and Why This Harms Everybody.”
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They continued, “The rhetoric espoused by Moms for Liberty and their funders and affiliates is full of homophobic, transphobic, racist, and xenophobic vitriol. We encourage you to research how this group has evolved and what their end game is.”
We can never let our guard down, the right-wingers are always trying to chip away on our rights!
Let's hope PFLAG mommies, the mommies who give out hugs at Pride, all the Pride committee mommies and ally mommies go out and stand up against these hateful mommies. I really hope we as a community are past the idea of ignoring hate as if we don't we will be giving them publicity.
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