The first in a multi-part series we’ve been teasing about all season. We talk about Parental Rights Extremism and how to effectively combat the rhetoric that is banning books from schools and trans children from being able to be themselves without ceding ground to the extremists.

Children have rights, parents have responsibilities.

Show Notes

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/children-are-not-property.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/165403/groups-pushing-anti-trans-laws-want-divide-lgbtq-movement

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/12/parental-rights-started-on-the-christian-fringe–now-its-the-gops-winning-issue/

https://www.bonfire.com/children-have-rights-1/

https://www.bonfire.com/children-have-rights160-1/

Immoral Minority

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/12/Immoral-Minority-warns-schools-on-sex-ed-disclosures/6860353221200/

https://www.buttonmuseum.org/buttons/immoral-minority

Kieryn and Hännah talk about the organization behind Sessions’ Religious Liberty Task Force: the Alliance Defending Freedom. Who are they, Where do they come from, What did they teach?

How do you make a joke about conspiracy theories when the conspiracy turns out to be real?

Footnotes:

• https://www.hrc.org/blog/on-noticeamericans-for-truth-about-homosexuality-adf-global-american-center
• https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-delivers-remarks-department-justice-s-religious-liberty-summit
  https://www.splcenter.org/20111006/anti-gay-lobby-family-research-council-american-family-association-demonization-lgbt-people
• https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/07/11/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-address-anti-lgbt-hate-group-closed-door-event
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-to-take-case-on-baker-who-refused-to-sell-wedding-cake-to-gay-couple/2017/06/26/0c2f8606-0cde-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.d1bf650a5844
• https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/worldnetdaily
• https://www.hrc.org/blog/on-noticeamericans-for-truth-about-homosexuality-adf-global-american-center
• The case to watch: http://www.adfmedia.org/files/HarrisCertPetition.pdf

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