Posted on 06/12/2023 5:33:40 AM PDT by Twotone
Dozens of Muslim and Christian parents showed up Tuesday at a Maryland school board meeting to protest a new policy that would stop letting parents opt their children out of reading LGBT books in school.
A large and vocal group of parents and other demonstrators protested outside the Montgomery County Public Schools headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, where the school board was preparing to discuss the rule change.
The group of parental rights demonstrators appear to be majority Muslim in video clips from the protest that were posted to social media.
The protesters chanted “Not Your Children,” “Protect Our Children,” and “Religious Freedom Now,” and carried signs reading, “Restore Opt Out,” and “Family Rights.”
The demonstration was organized by the parental rights groups Family Rights for Religious Freedom and Moms for Liberty.
A significantly smaller group of counter-protesters also showed up carrying rainbow LGBT flags. They expressed support for scrapping the parental opt-out option, with one sign reading, “Keep MCPS Free From Hate.”
Security for the school board meeting can be seen on video saying they will allow 30 people from each side of the issue to enter the board meeting.
The parents protesting the rule change can be heard in the video saying they have hundreds of demonstrators, many more than showed up to counter-protest in favor of the rule stripping parents of the option to opt out of LGBT content.
First, 30 parental rights demonstrators entered the school board meeting, and then 30 pro-LGBT content activists entered the building, passing by their opponents who shouted, “Protect our children!” as they passed, according to video footage.
During the board meeting, a former student in the district, a young girl wearing a hijab, addressed the board.
“Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right that protects the conscience of all people. It allows us to think, express, and act upon what we deeply believe,” the girl said. “The issue of gender and sexuality are influenced by our faith, and we should not be caricatured as intolerant.”
“I respectfully request the restoration of the opt-out option at MCPS,” she said.
One Muslim mother spoke in favor of getting rid of the opt-out option, saying that “gender-fluid people have been part of Islamic societies from the beginning.”
Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink also spoke at the school board meeting.
“This issue has unfortunately put some, not all of course, some Muslim families on the same side of an issue as white supremacists, and outright bigots. However, the folks I’ve talked to here today, I would not put in the same category as those folks, although it’s again complicated.”
An audience member called out “False!” at Mink’s comment referencing white supremacists, and several in the audience shook their heads.
Three families are suing the Montgomery County Board of Education and Superintendent Monifa McKnight over getting rid of the opt-out option, claiming their First Amendment rights have been violated.
The lawsuit claims the LGBT children’s books “Pride Puppy” and “Love, Violet” were added to the curriculum.
Also on Tuesday, across the country in Glendale, California, protesters and counter-protesters erupted into physical violence over the local district pushing LGBT themes.
The clash occurred while the Glendale Unified School District board met to vote on a resolution recognizing June as Pride Month and committing to a “safe, inclusive, and nurturing environment” for students. The resolution ended up passing.
Three of the Glendale protesters were arrested.
Rational, decentpeople of all sorts are coming to the realization that you cannot be both decent and Democrat. You are either one or the other. Democrats are corroding the American nation. They are not fit to hold public office.
School libraries, at least good ones, vertically integrate their holdings and collections to the curriculum.
If the perversion were not in the curriculum they librarians would not buy the books.
The parents need to do more than protest the library books. The problem is bigger than that.
bttt
This would be one instance where a few decapitations might be in order.
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Go, Muslims
Hope they send some protesters over to Virginia — and shake the local Republicans out of their complacency.
Yep. Muslims are on the intersection victim totem pole. It is dangerous for transgender fanatics to attack them as white supremacist bigots.
Montgomery County, MD. Slightly to the left of Berkeley, CA, and Madison, WI.
There was a caller on yesterday’s WMAL Vince Coglianese show who said he was at the event but was shocked and embarrassed at the few white Christian parents who showed up to voice their objections. My view is that the Left have met their match with the non-white Muslim parents. Will the Left dare vilify the Muslims and what label will they pin on them?
Anyone who opposes their perverted, child-grooming, pedophile agenda they brand a "white supremacist". Remember this: "white supremacist" is code for "opposed to institutionalized sodomy and pedophilia".
The LGBTQWERTY always demand a comfort zone for themselves, but they refuse to allow that for anyone else.
The Muslims are still compelled to behead Christians. But in the meantime use them like the democrats, as political allies to combat the bigger evil.
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