Latest Anti-LBGTQ Push, From a TX School Board
A Series On Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Southlake Carroll ISD has become the first in what is likely to be a long list of politically motivated moves by Republican captured school boards, has voted to end its membership in the Texas Association of School Boards, TASB.
TASB provides a legal framework for the board to follow; however, the board found fault with the association over its stance protecting LBGTQ kids. The school board President had this to say:
"Sending our community’s taxpayer dollars to an organization that pushes the very ideologies that our community overwhelmingly rejected in the last three elections would be disingenuous”
SLC ISD’s board leaving the association isn’t a problem, rather its rationale for doing so being anti-LGBTQ, and therefore discriminatory. Knowing a bit about the community and the school population in South Lake, there is likely to be considerable pushback and support on this, as there are literally no homes in the area costing less than 2.5 million.
At the beginning of the school year, for example, a new state law requiring a poster of the US motto being displayed went into effect. The school board sent a “polite” legal filling from a parent, represented by a law firm stating the board chosen poster ran afoul of state laws. It clearly did because one element of the poster was repeated three times and that was not allowable, technically, by the state statute. The offered up replacement motto also ran afoul of the rule because the lettering was colored in a supportive way of the LBGTQ community with the multicolored rainbow.
This here is from the above local Fox News story:
While this seems like a small story, it won’t stay small.
My expectation is that the next board meeting will have plenty of comments from parents angry over the board cancelling the contract in a manner that clearly targeted LBGTQ children. While other Texas school boards will follow Southlake Carroll’s lead, this is where things will get messy.
Southlake Carroll’s football team is known for getting scouted for the big universities/best scholarships. I think in effing TEXAS, where they’re okay with confirmation of a child’s sex before allowing them into sports, this is a worrying development.
Southlake is also the home of my former church, Gateway Church, which went full QAnon pastored by Robert Morris. Morris famously attended Amy Comey Barrett’s Rose Garden superspreader. Then, he came home & preached massless. True Christian humility & love, huh? #QAnon #IGotOut
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FAFO 🤭
Sincerely,
Everyone
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