"Moms for Liberty is
an American right-wing political
organization founded on 2021 that advocates
against school curriculums that mention LGBT
rights, race and ethnicity, critical race
theory, and discrimination, while multiple
chapters have also campaigned to ban books
that address gender and sexuality from
school libraries. The group has also
campaigned for LGBT students to be kept
separated from straight and cisgender
students. The group began by campaigning
against COVID-19 protections in schools,
including mask and vaccine mandates.
The group is
influential within the Republican Party.
Many of the group's chapters across the U.S.
have forged close ties to right-wing
extremist groups, including the Proud Boys
and Three Percenters, as well as sovereign
citizen, QAnon, and Christian nationalist
organizations. In 2023, the Southern Poverty
Law Center, a civil rights organization that
tracks extremists, termed Moms for Liberty a
far-right extremist organization.
Moms for Liberty has
been criticized for harassment, for
deepening divisions among parents, for
making students' education more difficult,
and for having close ties to the Republican
Party rather than being a genuine grassroots
effort."
"Arizona
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Tom Horne struck an alliance with Moms
for Liberty supporters at an East Valley
event Thursday evening over what he said was
a shared goal: electing conservatives to
school boards in 2024 "That's going to be my
main occupation for 2024," Horne said." [ .
. . ] "The group's stated goals are to
advocate for "parental rights" in education,
as well as to "stop woke indoctrination."
In June, it was added to the Southern
Poverty Law Center's list of extremist
groups. The Alabama-based civil
rights organization called it an
“antigovernment organization” that spreads
conspiracy theories and uses its "multiple
social media platforms to target teachers
and school officials, advocate for the
abolition of the Department of Education ...
and spread hateful imagery and rhetoric
against the LGBTQ community."
Sep. 15, 2023
Moms for
Liberty
erupted
into
applause
when
their
co-founder
said one
of their
members
quoted
Hitler
in their
newsletter.
“I stand
with
that
mom!”
Jul. 7,
2023
The above is from
the front page of
"Moms for Liberty"
first newsletter.
June 2023
"A Moms for
Liberty chapter
has apologized after
receiving blowback
for quoting Hitler
in its newsletter,
but they still
justified using the
quotation." [ . . .
] "Moms for Liberty
is enjoying newfound
influence within the
Republican Party.
The group has backed
bills banning
transgender women
and girls from
playing women’s
sports, and
encouraged book
bans. Their annual
summit this year
will feature
multiple 2024
presidential
candidates,
including
Donald Trump,
Nikki Haley,
Ron DeSantis,
Vivek Ramaswamy, and
Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
"Just in time for
Pride Month, a newly
identified
anti-LGBTQ+ group
has set its sights
on the Northwest —
with a vengeance.
According to data
released this month
by the Southern
Poverty Law Center,
Moms For Liberty
is now rooted in
five Washington
counties, with two
more in Oregon and
another in Montana."
"More than two years
into a conservative
push against
teaching about Black
history, literature
and gender identity
in public schools,
the Southern Poverty
Law Center has
concluded that a
dozen so-called
"parental rights"
groups behind the
movement are
extremist. The civil
rights organization
particularly focuses
on the largest of
these, the nonprofit
Moms for Liberty,
in its annual Year
in Hate & Extremism
report for 2022,
saying that it
advances an
anti-student
inclusion agenda."
"Moms for Liberty's
ambitious plan to
influence
legislation, as
revealed by internal
documents obtained
by Media Matters, is
proving successful
in states across the
country. Moms for
Liberty is best
known for its
efforts to loudly
overtake and
intimidate public
schools, but
unbeknownst to many
the group was
terrorizing school
boards while
simultaneously
planting a
sophisticated state
legislative advocacy
infrastructure that
it’s now using to
strategically attack
LGBTQ rights."
"A Florida high
school will dish out
refunds after
parents and students
whined that the
yearbook staff went
woke and included
“inappropriate”
LGBTQ+ content in
its annual
publication. This
spring, Lyman High
School, part of
Seminole County
Public Schools,
released a 256-page
yearbook. Two of
those pages
spotlighted LGBTQ+
students and
highlighted gender
identity terms, like
“genderfluid” and “nonbinary,”
according to the
Orlando Sentinel. It
was enough to send
Seminole County
Moms for Liberty
Chair Jessica
Tillmann into a
hissy fit, and she
submitted a
complaint"
"A prominent member
of the conservative
parent group Moms
for Liberty has
claimed that US
president Joe Biden,
teachers and unions,
are working to turn
people LGBTQ+. "
In late March,
Carolyn gave her
permission for Tony
to start counseling
with the group, and
Tony felt that there
was light at the end
of the tunnel. Then,
two months later,
out of nowhere, his
mother revoked her
permission. Carolyn
tells VICE News
she’ll never forget
how Tony responded
to her ban: “Mom,
you just killed me.”
Later that day, Tony
attempted to die by
suicide.
Carolyn’s decision
didn’t spring out of
nowhere: Moms for
Liberty, an
organization that
calls itself a
“parental rights
group,” had
convinced Carolyn
that the Rainbow
Youth Project was
trying to “convince
Tony to have his
private parts
removed and
changed.”
"Book bans are
pretty much the
worst, and when it
comes to the worst
of the worst, the
111-page Moms for
Liberty BOOK of
BOOKS document,
which claims to
provide parental
guidance for
controversial
children’s books, is
beneath the barrel’s
bottom, somewhere
deep in the sewer,
under a layer of
crust formed by
many, many flushed
turds."
"This week across
the book banning
social media world,
a new guidebook to
inappropriate books
across the state of
Iowa has been
circulating. This
111 page guidebook,
put together by
Moms For Liberty
in Polk County,
reiterates that
their quest to
remove inappropriate
books from schools
is not about book
banning. Indeed,
they use the Stephen
King philosophy to
suggest that just
because they do not
want books in
schools does not
mean that students
cannot get them from
public libraries
(conveniently
leaving out their
quest to get those
books removed in
public libraries,
too)."
"Earlier this month,
an episode of MSNBC’s Field Report with
Paola Ramos featured Moms for Liberty
Miami president Eulalia Jimenez, who
believes COVID vaccines are “poison” and
that there are “children being smuggled
through underground tunnels for the
enjoyment of demons”, as well as other
members of her chapter. In one group
interview, member Crystal Alonso told Ramos
that discussion with pupils about being
LGBTQ+ should not be an “open thing in
classrooms”, and said she believes queer
kids should be confined to “separate
classrooms”. “Like for example children with
autism, Down’s syndrome, they have to have
special IEP [individualized education plan]
meetings with a counselor,” she said."
"members of Moms
for Liberty started showing up at school
board meetings right after that election
“and I had people following me around,
following me to my car, following me to my
car screaming at me," she said. "I had
private investigators following me around,
sending death threats to me.” Jenkins said
the situation grew out of control in March
2021 when Descovich posted the district’s
LGBTQ anti-discrimination guidance to her
Facebook page. The guidance, meant to help
teachers and administrators navigate LGBTQ
issues raised by students, was not new
though the district was making updates at
the time."
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