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No Democrats vote for ‘Parents Bill of Rights’ claiming it promotes ‘fascism’

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Democrats say a newly passed Bill which protects parents’ rights is promoting “fascism.” The House voted Friday to pass the Parents Bill of Rights Act in a 213-208 vote. All Democrats and a few Republicans voted against it. The Act would require school districts to give parents access to curriculum and reading lists, as well as require schools to inform parents if school staff begin encouraging or promoting their child’s gender transition.

The GOP bill “is a response to growing anger across the country about access to information on everything from school curricula to safety and mask policies to the prevalence of gender ideology and critical race theory in the classroom. Parents’ anger over these issues at school board meetings led to an effort by the Biden administration’s Justice Department to examine the ‘disturbing trend’ of violent threats against school officials” reports Fox News.

The bill says parents have “the right to know if a school employee or contractor acts to… change a minor child’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name; or… allow a child to change the child’s sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.”

Democrats are attempting to use fear tactics, saying the GOP bill wants to engage in a dangerous book ban. “They want to ban books, they want to bully the LGBTQ+ community, they want to bring guns into classrooms, kindergarten and above. That’s their educational agenda,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat. “Extreme MAGA Republicans don’t want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust” he ranted.

Republican Representative Ralph Normal from South Carolina rejected Jeffries nonsense: “Nowhere in this bill is it banning any books.” Rather, the goal of the bill’s language is to make sure parents are aware of sexually explicit books in school libraries.

Norman cited specific books that talk about kids who are “sexually active from the time I was 6,” or that include “explicit images of oral sex.”

“Parents, is this something you want your children to read?” Norman asked. “Parents, is this something that encourages academics and allows that child to compete in the 21st century?”

 

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  1. Terryr

    March 25, 2023 at 5:17 pm

    What country are we today? We used to be the greatest country in the world now we have been lowered to a back world dung hole buy the despicable democratic socialist government we now have forced upon us. This can’t continue without some very serious, intelligent, Americans who live, pay taxes, raise children, and love what used to be the United States of America it’s time to begin to wake up and decide enough is enough we want our country back.

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Former Harvard medical professor says he was fired for opposing Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates

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“My hope is that someday, Harvard will find its way back to academic freedom and independence.” That is the heartfelt message from Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a former Harvard University professor of medicine since 2003, who recently announced publicly he was fired for “clinging to the truth” in his opposition to Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Kulldorff posted the news on social media alongside an essay published in the City Journal last week. The epidemiologist and biostatistician also spoke with National Review about the incident. Kulldorff says he was fired by the Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham hospital system and put on a leave of absence by Harvard Medical School in November 2021 over his stance on Covid.

Nearly two years later, in October 2023, his leave of absence was terminated as a matter of policy, marking the end of his time at the university. Harvard severed ties with Kulldorff “all on their initiative,” he said.

The history of the medical professional’s public stance on Covid-19 vaccines and mandates is detailed by National Review:

Censorship and rejection led Kulldorff to co-author the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020 alongside Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University. Together, the three public-health scientists argued for limited and targeted Covid-19 restrictions that “protect the elderly, while letting children and young adults live close to normal lives,” as Kulldorff put it in his essay.

“The declaration made clear that no scientific consensus existed for school closures and many other lockdown measures. In response, though, the attacks intensified—and even grew slanderous,” he wrote, naming former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins as the one who ordered a “devastating published takedown” of the declaration.

Testifying before Congress in January, Collins reaffirmed his previous statements attacking the Great Barrington Declaration.

Despite the coordinated effort against it, the document has over 939,000 signatures in favor of age-based focused protection.

The Great Barrington Declaration’s authors, who advocated the quick reopening of schools, have been vindicated by recent studies that confirm pandemic-era school closures were, in fact, detrimental to student learning. The data show that students from third through eighth grade who spent most of the 2020–21 school year in remote learning fell more than half a grade behind in math scores on average, while those who attended school in person dropped a little over a third of a grade, according to a New York Times review of existing studies. In addition to learning losses, school closures did very little to stop the spread of Covid, studies show.

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