Joe.My.God. LGBT News
The Bucks County Courier Times reports:
Copies of the Central Bucks School District’s administrative regulations for a library policy critics say opens the door to banning LGBTQ books have been reviewed and possibly edited by a statewide conservative group.
Metadata of a leaked copy of the regulations made multiple noteworthy changes to an earlier draft written by the district’s library coordinator, and the final draft appears to list an attorney for the Pennsylvania Family Institute as its author.
PA Family Institute’s Senior Counsel Jeremy Samek appeared in a Christian news outlet’s story about the ACLU of PA’s federal discrimination complaint filed in October with the U.S. Department of Education on behalf of seven LGBTQ students.
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1/3 @ulleryatintell reports @CBSDSchools enlisted a lawyer from Right-Wing Christian Org Pennsylvania Family Institute to re-write the final copy of its new admin regulations for challenging library books, gutting the district library coordinator’s draft. https://t.co/ij8G8txIIr
— BucksCountyBeacon (@BucksCoBeacon) January 20, 2023
2/3 Pennsylvania Family Institute: “Activists in schools are working overtime to proselytize children into sexual & other ideologies. They use coercion, grooming techniques, & even bully those who do not embrace such ideologies.” @CBSDSchools #BucksCounty https://t.co/XiaVpVsFzO
— BucksCountyBeacon (@BucksCoBeacon) January 20, 2023
3/3 Read @cmychalejko critique of The #BucksCounty @CourierTimes Editorial Board’s horrible take on @CBSDSchools library censorship/book banning policy. https://t.co/g9OJxIbP6o
— BucksCountyBeacon (@BucksCoBeacon) January 20, 2023