Tag: County Citizens Defending Freedom

New Florida School Board Cans Transgender Bathroom Guidelines, Promotes American Flag

In what conservative parents consider a win, two newly-elected school board members in Miami-Dade County, Florida, wasted no time clarifying bathroom and locker rooms will be separated strictly by biological sex. No longer will transgender students get to choose which bathroom or locker room they’d like to use. Further, American flags—missing from many campuses—will be…


Texas Parent Rankles School Board With Graphic Library Books

A Texas mother, frustrated by her school board’s reluctance to remove books with graphic sexual content from school libraries, found an embarrassing technique for getting board members and the public to pay attention. Her unusual method may have hastened the removal of one objectionable book from shelves and brought the issue of sexual content in…


Texas Grade School Teacher Quits After Being Accused of Posting Disturbing Sexual Content

A Texas resident blasted Highland Park ISD school board members on Sept. 13 over hiring a teacher for 5-year-olds who had disturbing sexual content allegedly posted on social media. Russell Fish, an activist and founder of OpenRecords.org, spoke publicly during the board meeting concerning a self-described “queer teacher” who identified with the LGBT community. Fish,…


Conservatives Organize Against Exposing Children to LGBT Ideology

From Idaho to Texas, parents and conservative groups are organizing to push back against the sexualization of children that involves “drag” shows and LGBT content. In Idaho, a “drag kids” show with performers as young as 11 was postponed Sunday at the Boise Pride Festival in Idaho after the state GOP called on constituents to…


Florida Citizen Group Leading Charge Against Sexually Explicit Library Books in Schools

A Florida group isn’t giving up on their fight to stop the Polk County Public Schools from allowing students access to sexually explicit books in school libraries. County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF) filed an appeal with the Polk County School Board on Sept. 6 over “pornographic” titles available to middle and high school children that…


National Group Emboldens Pastors to Seek Public Office, Spur Civil Service Guided by Bible

Pastor Jack Hilligoss never thought of himself as a political kind of guy. He was happy leading HighPoint Church in sleepy Lake Wales, a 20-square-mile patch of sunshine in the geographic center of the Florida peninsula. Dotted with old orange groves, it’s home to about 16,000 residents and exudes small-town values centered on faith, family,…


Texas Group Successfully Blocks ‘Harmful’ School Sex-Ed Program Used in 35 States

A Texas group is celebrating a win in their fight to block what they consider “harmful” sex education lessons in some Corpus Christi schools. But it’s a bittersweet victory, say parents with the Nueces County chapter of County Citizens Defending Freedom. That’s because a local nonprofit receives $412,208 annually through a two-year federal grant to persuade…