Moms for Liberty Responds to Manhattan Leader’s Attack

“We have been, and always will be, committed to allowing parents to decide what is best for their children,” Justice informed The Daily Signal in a press release Thursday responding to Levine’s assault. “We would love to have Mark try and explain how politicians know better how to make decisions for students over their own parents.”

Justice stated Moms for Liberty will go forward with the city corridor occasion, no matter any actions Levine would possibly take to block it.

As for the claims that Moms for Liberty is “anti-LGBTQ,” Justice stated one of many group’s high leaders is lesbian, the group has homosexual chapter chairs, and a few chapter chairs have homosexual youngsters.

Levine didn’t reply to The Daily Signal’s request for touch upon what actions, if any, he deliberate to take to stop the city corridor from happening.

Moms for Liberty emerged in 2021 as distant studying over Zoom uncovered many mother and father through the COVID-19 pandemic to the novel classes their kids obtain in school.

Parents raised the alarm about crucial race principle—a framework that encourages college students to see American society as basically racist, with college students as oppressors or oppressed primarily based on pores and skin shade—in addition to sexualized supplies and gender classes at younger ages.

Many faculty boards and Democratic candidates at first dismissed mother and father’ position in schooling, saying that academics, as “education professionals,” ought to make schooling choices. Now, many on the Left accuse teams equivalent to Moms for Liberty of “book banning” as a result of these mum or dad teams object to pornographic materials obtainable to kids in class libraries.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that implies conservative teams are rooted in hate identical to the Ku Klux Klan, lengthy pushed crucial race principle and transgender classes by its Learning for Justice program (beforehand often called Teaching Tolerance).

As I clarify in my guide “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the SPLC sued KKK groups into chapter 11 within the Eighties, then took this system it used for that function and weaponized it in opposition to conservatives, placing conservative nonprofits such because the Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Center for Immigration Studies on a map alongside KKK chapters. This map impressed a terrorist assault on the Family Research Council in 2012.

In 2019, amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal that led the SPLC to fireplace its cofounder, a former worker got here ahead saying the SPLC’s “hate” accusations are a “highly profitable scam.” Liberals who usually aspect with the SPLC, together with former ACLU President Nadine Strossen, nonetheless have condemned the SPLC’s declare that Alliance Defending Freedom—a nonprofit champion of non secular liberty that has gained a number of Supreme Court circumstances—is a “hate group.”

In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center paid a $3.38 million defamation settlement to Maajid Nawaz, a Muslim reformer branded by the SPLC as an “anti-Muslim extremist.” An SPLC lawyer at the moment faces domestic terrorism charges for his position in an Atlanta riot in March 2023 that concerned molotov cocktails.

In June, the SPLC added Moms for Liberty and different parental rights teams to its “hate map,” claiming the organizations symbolize “antigovernment extremist groups” in an “anti-student inclusion movement.” Moms for Liberty reported receiving death threats after this assault.

Leading up to that transfer, the SPLC had met with President Joe Biden on the White House and Biden had appointed an SPLC lawyer to a high federal judgeship. These ties recommend the SPLC’s determination to goal parental rights teams might have one thing to do with the Biden administration’s earlier involvement in an notorious letter from the National School Boards Association in 2021 that in contrast mother and father to home terrorists.

Levine, who had cited the SPLC smear, didn’t reply to questions on whether or not he considers the Southern Poverty Law Center to be a dependable supply on hate, given its scandals. He didn’t reply to issues that citing the SPLC might alienate conservative New Yorkers within the borough of Manhattan.

Nor did Levine clarify how requesting that college libraries take away books with pornographic pictures equates to a “ban” on books.

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