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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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BREAKING: Disney drops suit challenging special district status in settlement with Florida, DeSantis

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A settlement was reached Wednesday in the two-year lawsuit over who controls the special governing district that encompasses the Walt Disney World Resort, which includes Disney dropping its lawsuitsagainst a newly created tourism board.

“We are glad that Disney has dropped its lawsuits against the new Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and conceded that their last-minute development agreements are null, void, and unenforceable,” Bryan Griffin, DeSantis’ communications director, said in a statement. “No corporation should be its own government. Moving forward, we stand ready to work with Disney and the District to help promote economic growth, family-friendly tourism, and accountable government in Central Florida.”

Fox News explains the dispute began “after Disney’s criticism of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act – derided by critics as the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill – prompted the DeSantis administration to revoke the special Disney-controlled tax district that gave the entertainment autonomy over its theme parks in the region.”

“No corporation should be its own government,” Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for the governor, said in an emailed statement. “Moving forward, we stand ready to work with Disney and the District to help promote economic growth, family-friendly tourism, and accountable government in Central Florida.”

Misleadingly deemed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, prohibited the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity to young students in the state. National Review reports:

After receiving pressure from employees, Disney’s then-CEO, Bob Chapek, said that the company’s leaders had been opposed to the bill “from the outset,” and Disney declared that the legislation “should never have passed and should never have been signed into law.”

In February 2023, DeSantis signed House Bill 9B, which established the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District to replace Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District. Reedy Creek was a 56-year-old special taxing district that allowed Disney control its own development, regulations, building codes, and other municipal services.

Lawmakers voted to give the governor the power to appoint the district’s board members.

However, before a DeSantis-appointed board took over last March, the Disney-controlled board handed control of the district’s development over to Disney…

As part of the settlement, Disney acknowledges that the development agreement approved by the outgoing Reedy Creek board has “no legal effect or enforceability.”

As for the media reports that DeSantis had been humiliated and out-maneuvered by Disney, Griffin said that “as usual, the media were wrong.”

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