By Andrea Widburg
Moms for Liberty believes that children should be children. Their education should be about reading, writing, arithmetic, civics, and acquiring basic social skills. The moms are opposed to graphic sex in the classrooms and to race-baiting education. For that, the left despises them, and it’s using race-based tactics and the threat of violent intimidation to make its case. What’s happening in Charleston, South Carolina, is a microcosm of what’s happening across America.
In Charleston County, as is true in so many American schools, the schools have books that focus on explicit sex, often gay pedophilia. For example, 13 Charleston school libraries, including middle schools, have George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto (also available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, of course), which recounts in graphic detail the author’s sexual experiences—and I mean graphic. It’s indistinguishable from pornography in content but, to the left, it’s acceptable because it describes a gay man’s sexual experiences, along with his emotional responses. (Porn, of course, is sexual only.)
Then there’s the infamous Gender Queer, which is also in Charleston schools. As this link shows, it describes homosexual sex and transgenderism in exquisite detail. Moreover, when we use the word “graphic” in connection with Gender Queer, that’s the right word because it’s an illustrated novel, complete with uncensored pictures.
Those are only some of the books being forced on America’s children, whether in Charleston or elsewhere. That’s what Mom’s for Liberty is pushing back against. They’re not trying to censor books that stores can carry, or parents can buy for their children. They’re saying that children should not be exposed to this kind of stuff in school.
We all know that if schools offered online subscriptions to Playboy, the teachers and librarians trying to put that in front of kids would immediately be arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors. However, because these books involve the “LGBTQ+ spectrum,” the left argues that they’re “educational” and are intended to “protect” LGBTQ+ kids from mental illness as they “discover” their sexuality. Therefore, say leftists, they must be made available to children.
This argument is a complete inversion of the norm. It’s also the same argument used in California to push through a bill (which Governor Gavin Newsom feared to sign) that would have held that a parent could lose custody for denying a child’s “gender identity.”
In sum, Moms for Liberty stands for keeping pornography away from children. The left, in turn, claims children must see gay pornography to develop normally. This is the current fight in Charleston.
Yesterday, the President of the Charleston Moms for Liberty chapter, Tara Wood,* attended a Charleston school board meeting to speak out against explicit sexual material of any kind (heterosexual or other) in schools. What the cameras did not catch was the physical intimidation some of the attendees used against her. One person pushed her face within an inch of Tara’s face and began to yell at her. Threats of serious vandalism have plagued other events. Violence is also just below the surface.
However, you can see what happens when Tara tries to speak. The mob chants over her to silence her:
“Read the whole book,” they chant as she reads an excerpt, pretending that they’re for free speech. However, their actions put the lie to their words. Because they are hollering so loudly, Tara cannot speak at all.
Even more interesting to me is the push for intersectionality in the chants. In this video, beginning at 1:42, you hear them start another chant to silence her: “No justice; no peace.”
You may recognize that phrase. It came from the Black Lives Matter protests and was about the claim that the American criminal justice system is so racially broken that it must be met with violence. Why is the assembled mob using that chant to justify putting explicit sexual material in front of children?
I can tell you why (and this is my personal opinion and does not represent either Moms for Liberty or Tara Wood). Charleston is over 20% black. Those blacks have been a reliable Democrat voting bloc since the Civil Rights Movement. The problem for the Democrat party is that blacks as a whole are less fond of the LGBTQ+ movement than the rest of Americans. If you want to win on an LGBTQ+ issue in a black community, you must convince them that it’s the same issue as race: “No justice; no peace.” Whether a chant will hold the fragile leftist coalition together is questionable, but they’re trying.
As for Tara, she is a typical Southern woman, no matter the color: Gracious, highly intelligent, very feminine, incredibly courageous, and passionately devoted to children’s true well-being.
This well-being isn’t the psycho-sexual, race-obsessed “well-being” the left advances. Instead, it’s the type that most Americans still recognize: Children who are raised in a wholesome environment that allows them to develop as individuals rather than as members of racial blocks and that respects their sexual innocence as they learn to deal with their constantly and rapidly changing bodies. And boy, does the left hate that.
