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Clay Yarborough authored Florida’s new anti-trans bill that wld enable the state to steal trans kids from their parents if they receive gender affirming care. He calls himself a “Christ follower.” The hate is coming from Christian zealots. It just is, & voters deserve to know. 1/ 
3/ “The Get Outspoken website… blasted Yarborough [a self-described “follower of Christ”] for a 2010 comment in which he said he wasn’t sure if Muslims should hold political office and that he’d ‘prefer’ that ‘homosexuals’ did not.” #Christofascism floridapolitics.com/archives/43958…
4/ Seems he’s a big homeschooling proponent. Which is completely not shocking. Christian fundamentalists love homeschooling.
https://twitter.com/traciedavisjax/status/1636091893950849027
7/ the wife 🙄
8/ “Jacksonville City Councilman Clay Yarborough … speaks candidly about his Southern Baptist upbringing...” jacksonville.com/story/lifestyl…
9/ Interesting.
https://twitter.com/kylesiegyazbec/status/1646189731397484573
11/ But sure, let’s pick on trans kids. 🥵npr.org/2022/06/02/110…
12/ “Family values” = Christofascism
13/ John Stemberger, who endorsed Clay Yarborough, is apparently tied to the Council for National Policy (CNP), an umbrella & strategy group 4 the Christian Right & wealthy funders. “Farris” likely refers to evangelical extremist attorney Michael Farris…
https://archive.ph/2023.04.23-003629/https://twitter.com/johnstemberger/status/1327626294234927109?s=46&t=yAEuNZTB3A9MrMksqjCHcw
… whose Christian extremist organizations (Parental Rights Foundation & Home School Legal Defense Association) seek to dismantle Child Protective Services, including mandatory reporting laws re child abuse. 14/
https://twitter.com/RLStollar/status/1626640605714747394
15/ John Stemberger leads the Florida Family Policy council which is the state chapter of the Family Policy Alliance, another Christian extremist group. flfamily.org
16/ The Family Policy Alliance allies with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which is also led by Michael Farris. ADF played a top role in overturning Roe & is leading the ongoing court/legal battles against reproductive rights & LGBTQ rights. #Christofascism
17/ Other Michael Farris entities, the Parental Rights Foundation & the Home School Legal Defense Association, are leading the legal battles against public schools & Child Protective Services. Here’s a Farris quote. #Christofascism
18/ Farris’s HSLDA has “led efforts to strip away basic legal protections 4 homeschooled children in every state. Today, it is legal in 48 states 4 a person convicted of crimes against children to homeschool their own children w/o any restrictions…”. responsiblehomeschooling.org/when-parents-h…
19/ “Yarborough also had strong ally in his church — the 25,000 member First Baptist Church. While he concedes that his membership may have helped his chances, he discounts any speculation that it gave him a guaranteed ticket to office.” 11/23/21 jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2001/nov/…
😳This is the church where Clay Yarborough (who authored FL’s new bill targeting trans kids) got married. “A JACKSONVILLE MEGACHURCH is requiring members to sign a new, anti-LGBTQ pledge committing to…biblical sexuality’ —or leave the church” 1/31/23
20/ rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
20/ rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
21/ As I said, they will not stop with trans kids. 🥵 #Christofascism
22/ “Clay and Jordan said ‘I do’ June 10 in the Hobson Chapel at First Baptist Church. Eight hundred people attended their ceremony and reception.” 9/25/11 jacksonville.com/story/entertai…
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24/ “At least 10 current or former Jacksonville-area ministers were named in a previously secret list of accused sexual abusers that Southern Baptist Convention leaders published Thursday night.” 5/27/22
news.wjct.org/first-coast/20…
news.wjct.org/first-coast/20…
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