Who Are the Moms for Liberty?

My VIPs for this week are the Moms for Liberty. In a nutshell, this is an organization that emerged in 2021 when parents were exposed to the radical lessons being taught to their children. Exposure of the radical teachings to children over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the few good things to come out of the shutdown.

According to Tyler O’Neil, “Parents raised the alarm about critical race theory – a framework that encourages students to see American society as fundamentally racist, with students as oppressors or oppressed based on skin color – as well as sexualized materials and gender lessons at young ages.” 

Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, recently responded to harsh criticism from Mark Levine, the president of Manhattan Borough. Levine said last Wednesday that Moms for Liberty “has no place here” after he heard about a town hall-style event scheduled for January 18 at an Upper East Side venue. According to O’Neil, Levine wrote the following in a statement:

“This group is anti-LBGTQ, supports book bans, harasses teachers & school librarians, and has been labeled by [the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] a ‘far right extremist organization,’” Levine wrote in a statement.

“Manhattan is the home of Stonewall,” he added, referring to the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar that was the site of the 1969 riots that sparked the LGBTQ movement. “We celebrate cultural diversity in our classrooms. We believe in books. [Moms for Liberty] has no place here or [in] any other part of NYC.”

Justice responded to the accusation by asking if Levine would “like to join us” at the town hall and then continued:

“We have been, and always will be, committed to allowing parents to decide what is best for their children,” Justice told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday responding to Levine’s attack. “We would love to have Mark try and explain how politicians know better how to make decisions for students over their own parents.”

Justice indicated that her organization would go forward with the town hall event – no matter what Levine may do to block it. Then she addressed the claims that her organization is “anti-LGBTQ” by saying that one of the group’s top leaders is lesbian, the organization has gay chapter chairs, and some chapter chairs have gay kids.