Tag Archives: Moms For Liberty

The Christian Post reports: Parental rights activists nationwide held prayer rallies at each of the 50 state capitols and in Washington this weekend as part of an ongoing effort to turn individual states and the United States as a whole “back to God.” The Her Voice Movement is encouraging the formation of prayer hubs of two to 10 concerned women …

ABC News reports: The American Library Association released its annual list of the top 10 most targeted books of 2023 on Monday, the majority of which were challenges because of their LGBTQ content. “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe topped the list for the third year in a row. The graphic memoir, which chronicles the author’s experience with sexuality and gender …

The Florida Trident reports: Former Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler and his wife Bridget Ziegler, a Sarasota School Board Member and cofounder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty, have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the release of records involved in the husband’s criminal rape investigation. The once powerful Republican power couple sued the City of Sarasota and State …

The Florida Times-Union reports: Some of Florida’s loudest advocates for public school book removals make up half of a state government-sponsored group to advise school districts on how to select titles and when to pull them off shelves. Moms for Liberty members made up three of six members of a Department of Education workgroup that met Thursday in Tallahassee to …

The Daily Beast reports: The campaign ad begins with creepy piano music and scenes from Trump rallies and the Jan. 6 insurrection. “The far right has brought their brand of violent chaos and bigotry into our schools,” a narrator says, before members of the Proud Boys flash on screen. Proud Boys are also pictured at the election night party of …

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: The State Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday it will not charge former Florida Republican Party chairman Christian Ziegler with video voyeurism in connection with an alleged rape that authorities also declined to prosecute. Three assistants in State Attorney Ed Brodsky’s office explained the decision in a memo released Wednesday morning. The memo capped a protected investigation launched …

The Florida Trident reports: The Sarasota Police Department today released the audio recording of its interview with Moms for Liberty co-founder and Sarasota County School Board Member Bridget Ziegler in the now-closed rape investigation of her husband, former Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler. “We are looking at an allegation of sexual assault by your husband,” Det. Maria Llovio informed Bridget …

“What we are seeing here in our country is actually a nation that is losing its morals and turning away from and turning its back on God, perverting the innocence of children, pushing sex, perversion and inappropriate content younger and younger. When we look at the big picture, this isn’t so much about books. This battle is between good and …

The Daily Beast reports: About a decade before Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler championed Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, she was a Sarasota socialite who partied with a coterie of gay friends. “From the very get-go, we hit it off,” Nishit Patel said. “Of course the gay guy is going to gravitate toward the gorgeous blonde.” Patel is just …

Jerry Newcombe writes for the Christian Post: Are parents who are concerned for their children’s education “haters”? Are they bigots? Do they deserve to be treated as “domestic terrorists”? The answer to all of these questions should be “No.” But lately, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a group that claims to be the last word on who are haters …

The Daily Beast reports: The last three members of the Lehigh County chapter of Moms for Liberty met on Tuesday at the Starbrite Diner in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The membership had dwindled from a high of 200 in the feverish days of 2020, when Janine Vicalvi first formed this local branch of what the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as an …

The Daily Beast reports: Former Florida GOP chair Christian Ziegler and his wife, Bridget—known for promoting “family values” and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric—first had a sexual encounter with his rape accuser in 2021 as they “hunted” for a threesome partner, new police records reveal. Detectives also found a list on Ziegler’s phone, titled “THE LIST,” with the names of multiple women including …

Florida Politics reports: Sarasota Police have forwarded their investigation of Christian Ziegler to prosecutors. Investigators delivered a probable cause affidavit to charge Ziegler with video voyeurism, but not rape. Police in October launched an investigation of the now-former Republican Party of Florida Chair after a woman accused him of rape in a Sarasota apartment. Over the course of a two-month …

The Daily Beast reports: Moms for Liberty’s New York City event drew a large protest from local parents and the LGBTQ community Thursday evening—as well as guests including disgraced former Rep. George Santos and Rudy Giuliani’s son Andrew. Protesters flocked to Manhattan on Thursday to oppose the right-wing extremist group, which hosted a “town hall” for “an honest conversation on …

The Daily Beast reports: Dozens of students, parents, and members of the LGBTQ community appeared at a Florida school board meeting Tuesday to once more demand the resignation of its most controversial member: Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler. For close to three hours, the public comment period of the Sarasota County School Board meeting focused on Ziegler and her …

Popular Information reports: Activists from a South Carolina chapter of Moms for Liberty — a group best known for opposing LGBTQ rights, pushing for the removal of library books, and fighting racially inclusive curriculum — are starting their own public charter school. The new school, to be known as the Ashley River Classical Academy, will be fully taxpayer-funded, but is …

From a statement posted online by Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association president Joseph Balaz [screencap above]: I am taking this opportunity to communicate about an upcoming rental event involving an outside group known as Moms For Liberty. For the past 130 years, BBLA has successfully supported Czech and Slovak heritage using the Bohemian National Hall as our cultural platform. Tens …

“I do not agree with the event, the activities of this organization do not correspond to the interests of Czech foreign policy, and if it were up to me, it would never have taken place on the grounds of the Czech national building. “This is an event realized on the basis of a commercial lease of the premises of the …

The New York Daily News reports: Moms for Liberty, a right-wing national organization that got its start pushing back against COVID-era school policies, is looking for new footing in New York City’s most staunchly liberal borough. The conservative group, which has reportedly been losing influence across the country, announced on social media a Jan. 18 town hall at the Bohemian …

The Baltimore Banner reports: Whether it’s a textbook or a library book, it won’t be allowed in Carroll County Public Schools if deemed sexually explicit by school officials. That’s thanks to a new policy passed unanimously by its school board Wednesday. The vote came after a monthslong campaign by the conservative parent group Moms for Liberty, whose members challenged dozens …