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Mothers, Jewish leaders criticize Southern Poverty Law Center listing ‘Moms for Liberty’ a hate group Rabbi Yaakov Menken of the Coalition for Jewish Values called the parental-rights group an ally to Orthodox Jews. Bradley Martin Those involved with Moms for Liberty in Washington state. Source: Facebook. (June 20, 2023 / JNS) The Southern Poverty Law Center is a Montgomery, Ala.-based nonprofit that according to its website was founded in 1971 “to ensure that the promise of the civil rights movement became a reality for all.” Before reaching that first paragraph on the group’s site, however, comes the SPLC’s self-identification as...

To its members, it’s a grassroots army of “joyful warriors” who “don’t co-parent with the government.” To anti-hate researchers, it’s a well-connected extremist group that attacks inclusion in schools. And to Republicans vying for the presidency, it has become a potential key partner in the fight for the 2024 nomination. Moms for Liberty didn't exist during the last presidential campaign, but the Florida-based nonprofit that champions “ parental rights ” in education has rapidly become a major player for 2024, boosted in part by GOP operatives, politicians and donors.

We can quibble over the word “banned”: the Los Angeles Times even says that the controversy over “Gender Queer” has increased the size of the author’s royalty checks, so for a banned book, it’s selling really well. Then again, there are those who call it a “ban” when a school removes it from the middle school library for not being age-appropriate. Teachers are still going to put it on their summer reading lists, though. So how did Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel become America’s most banned book? It’s not too difficult to figure out — it includes graphic illustrations of oral...

The Berkeley County, South Carolina, school board made several big moves in its first meeting after the election. The board’s former chair said it was a “political witch hunt.” VIDEO AT LINK................. On Tuesday evening, the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina swore in the board members who were elected last week, six of whom were endorsed by the conservative activist group Moms for Liberty. Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban critical race theory and set up a committee to decide whether certain books and...

Florida mom Quisha King called for a "mass exodus" from the public school system, arguing that school systems left parents with no other choice for fighting left-wing ideas. Her comments came during the annual Family Research Council's Pray Vote Stand Summit during a Thursday panel on "Fighting Indoctrination on a National Scale." "I really think at this point the only thing to do is have a mass exodus from the public school system – that's it," King said. In response, she received prolonged applause, and many in the audience stood to their feet at the Leesburg, Virginia, event.