Antifa showed up to a community that's home to a large number of Armenians who weren't playing around.
“I don’t like the idea of my little kid coming home and saying it’s fine for a family to have two dads, two men to love each other. We don’t respect that, it’s not in our culture as Christians and Armenians,” said Sean Karapetyan, a father of two students at Saticoy Elementary School.
Erik Adamian, a counter-protester and board president of the GALAS LGBTQ+ Armenian Society, pushed back on this sentiment.“LGBTQ+ individuals exist in all cultures and communities and our representation and our voices being heard is not a matter of discussion, it is a civil right that was earned through decades and decades of LGBTQ activism,” he said.
The conflict at Saticoy Elementary School began about two weeks ago when members of a parent group expressed outrage over the school’s plan to read at a student assembly “The Great Big Book of Families.” The book describes types of families including multicultural and multi-religious families, families with adopted children and families with same-sex parents.