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This Extremist Group (Moms for Liberty) Calls Itself A 'Parental Rights' Org. Now It's Targeting School Boards In 1 Key State.
Huffington Post ^ | 11/03/23 | Nathalie Baptiste

Posted on 11/04/2023 5:45:13 AM PDT by Libloather

Moms for Liberty has, in recent years, been a major player in America’s culture wars. The group has been behind the drastic increase in book ban attempts across the country, influenced local leaders to implement anti-LGBTQ+ policies, and railed against educators and others in communities, smearing them as child abusers. In 2023, Moms for Liberty held its annual convention in Pennsylvania, sparking widespread protests.

Now it has set its sights on the state’s many school boards.

There are 500 different districts spread over Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, and ahead of next week’s elections in the state, HuffPost found that Moms for Liberty has endorsed more than 50 candidates in 28 districts.

Rising to prominence in 2021, Moms for Liberty bills itself as a grassroots movement seeking to restore “parental rights” in government, and most notably the nation’s public school system. But it has since become a prominent fixture in Republican politics and been deemed an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Ariel Franchak, a public school teacher who founded the Pennsylvania chapter of the opposition group Stop Moms for Liberty on Facebook, felt she had no choice but to get involved in school politics once she saw Moms for Liberty’s agenda.

“I didn’t start getting into this until they started messing with the books, and trying to discriminate against the LGBTQ community and whitewashing history,” she told HuffPost. “They want to destroy everything good about schools.”

(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Computers/Internet; Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: education; extremist; momsforliberty; nathaliebaptiste; parentalrights; parents; rights; school
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Banning porn for kids is now extreme. Sounds like a fight. I'm up for it.
1 posted on 11/04/2023 5:45:13 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

We need to find out who is behind the group, who funds it, and who directs it. Then go to the source and confront it.


2 posted on 11/04/2023 5:47:08 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: silent majority rising

I think they’re on our side of the issue.


3 posted on 11/04/2023 5:50:17 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Libloather

Extremist? Perhaps the Huffington Post needs to look in the mirror. When the SHTF, these so called journalists better keep looking over their shoulders.


4 posted on 11/04/2023 5:51:07 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

We don’t want schools talking our kids into chopping their ________ off.

Extremist


5 posted on 11/04/2023 5:52:08 AM PDT by Pollard (The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
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To: silent majority rising

It means that men are going to have to give up their interests in order to take back the country. I suspect that professional sports was created as a distraction so we wouldn’t notice the country being stolen underneath our feet.


6 posted on 11/04/2023 5:53:18 AM PDT by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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To: Libloather

Extremist group — you know they’re bad!
“Parental Rights” — fear quotes! Insincerity! These evil people are trying to fool us!
Targeting school boards — Monsters! Who would do such a violent thing?

Gosh. Sometimes I think the media is trying to manipulate how I think about things ...


7 posted on 11/04/2023 5:54:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: Libloather

Anything or anyone who goes up against demonrat policy are called “extremists.”

I say the demonrat party is one big old “extremist” organization.


8 posted on 11/04/2023 5:55:05 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
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To: Libloather

One man’s extremist is another man’s freedom fighter.


9 posted on 11/04/2023 6:01:22 AM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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To: silent majority rising

Nothing is EXTREME about Moms of Liberty. Sounds like someone’s hair is on fire, or they have been puffing too much canabis.


10 posted on 11/04/2023 6:03:04 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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Huffpost got its marching orders from Biden’s FBI.

This is Huffpost badmouthing a pro-child parent’s right group......gag.


11 posted on 11/04/2023 6:06:05 AM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: Libloather

Ariel Franchak is the extremist.


12 posted on 11/04/2023 6:06:25 AM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Libloather

Hmmm, so the FP calls a group of moms “extremist”.
Let’s ask them what they use to describe Hamas.
Answer: Mostly peaceful, I’m sure.


13 posted on 11/04/2023 6:08:27 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Libloather

WOW!, Deranged, morally bankrupt, deviant, perverts, hell bent on grooming innocent children for their own personal sexual satisfaction.


14 posted on 11/04/2023 6:09:38 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Libloather

“During COVID, she started bringing in data about COVID that was extremely biased, like saying masking was actually unhealthy,” Munson told HuffPost. “We can’t have four more like her.”

Idiot.


15 posted on 11/04/2023 6:10:06 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Libloather

My local library ,and presumably all the staff, has a huge display promoting all the LGBTW+ insanity and denouncing “book banning”.

I am disgusted and told the librarian on duty there are two sexes and anyone having problems with that needs help.


16 posted on 11/04/2023 6:12:46 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: Libloather

They really don’t like having their tactics turned against them.


17 posted on 11/04/2023 6:15:31 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Libloather

It’s extremist now for parents to protect their children?4


18 posted on 11/04/2023 6:23:28 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: rovenstinez

This ho Baptiste is a Haitian “refugee”. Another retarded idiot telling Americans how it’s going to be now that her ass is here.


19 posted on 11/04/2023 6:23:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: Libloather

“The group has been behind the drastic increase in book ban attempts across the country”

Trying to protect children from sexual perversion literature ... how terrible


20 posted on 11/04/2023 6:25:56 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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