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Aug 28 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A thread about how a Texas school district with 90,000 students halted new book purchases following a trustee’s complaint about a picture book about a cat pretending to be a unicorn. (She was upset because the book includes the word “they,” but it wasn’t in reference to gender)
The Katy school board is preparing to vote on a new policy banning mention of “gender fluidity” from classrooms, similar to a policy adopted in Grapevine last year. Image
After I wrote about this school district last year, a group of moms threatened to call the police and report me for “grooming” students by interviewing them for the story.

That mom group has since helped flip majority control of the school board. nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1…

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Apr 12
A Franklin, Tennessee, council member just held up a photo of what she described as a drag queen biting into “a live, beating heart” in explaining why she’s going the vote against granting a permit for a LGBTQ pride festival.

“This could have happened here.”
This same Franklin aldermen is scolding pride festival organizers for refusing to offer a booth to this religious group, which believes that homosexual attraction is the result of Original Sin and teachers gay youth to embrace a lifetime of celibacy: equipyourcommunity.org/what-does-equi…
Another Franklin alderman is floating the possibility of approving the pride festival permit on the condition that they don't have any live performances.

Another option he said might be to make the event 18+ only.
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Apr 11
“I believe that their lifestyle is wrong,” this man said, speaking out against allowing an LGBTQ pride festival in Franklin, Tennessee.

Folks came wearing “Protect ALL kids” stickers. Lots of others wearing rainbow T-shirts as well.

Happening now. Image
“I’ve had gay and lesbian friends since before these kids were alive,” this speaker said, calling on Franklin city leaders to not allow an LGBTQ pride festival in town. Image
“Why would we ever permit such an event in a public park?” Image
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Apr 11
WATCH: Last month, at an event hosted by Patriot Mobile, David Barton urged North Texas school boards to seize on recent SCOTUS decisions to "go on the offensive" and impose Christian values in public schools:

"We can now go back to singing the traditional Christmas carols."
David Barton continued: Student-led prayer, prayer at graduation, Ten Commandments displays, for-credit Bible classes: "We need to be aggressive in pushing these things" in public schools.
Several sitting school board members — from Southlake, GCISD, Keller, Mansfield and others — were in attendance for Barton's lecture on imposing biblical values in public schools.

Three of them even shared the stage with him:
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Apr 5
RIGHT NOW: David & Tim Barton, who've said the purpose of public schools "is to teach students to love and serve God," make the case for forcing public schools to display the 10 Commandments in every classroom.

One suggests the measure could have stopped the Nashville shooting. Image
Context:
Some other stuff the Bartons have been up to lately:
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Apr 3
Today in Austin, two Southlake Carroll school board members spoke at a press conference alongside GOP legislators about their recent decision to leave the Texas Association of School Boards over "woke, leftists policies."

The lawmakers called on other districts to follow suit.
It's part of a yearslong pattern on Southlake leading the way in the backlash against DEI programs and LGBTQ inclusion in schools.

You can watch the full press conference here: tlchouse.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph…
Some of the backstory here. I would expect to see more Texas school districts following Southlake's lead in the coming weeks.
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Apr 3
Two GOP bills to chip away at the separation of church & state and promote Christianity in public schools are getting a hearing in the Texas Senate this week.

One, SB 1515, would require schools to display the Ten Commandments (King James version) in EVERY classroom. 1/
Every K-12 public classroom in the state of Texas would be required to display these words:

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant."

Yes, please explain that line to a 6-year-old. 2/
You can read the entire bill here: capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/bi… 3/
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