“60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley pressed the co-founders of Mothers for Liberty on sexually express books in schools throughout a combative section that aired Sunday.
“We love teachers,” Mothers for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich instructed Pelley. “My children have had the best teachers. I’ve had the greatest teachers that have influenced and impacted me.”
“But there are rogue teachers in America’s classrooms right now,” Descovich added.
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“60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley pressed the co-founders of Mothers for Liberty on sexually express books in faculties throughout a combative section from Sunday. (60 Minutes screenshot)
“Parents send their children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated into ideology,” Mothers for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice stated.
“What ideology are they being indoctrinated into?” Pelley requested.
Descovich replied, “Let’s just say children in America cannot read.”
Pelley then narrated over the section, claiming, “They often dodged questions with talking points.”
“You’re being evasive,” Pelley instructed them. “What ideology are the children being indoctrinated into? What is your fear?”
“I think the parents’ fears are realized,” Justice responded. “They’re looking at these books where sexual discussions are happening with their children at younger and younger ages.”
“Gender Queer” is a graphic novel that has been referred to as “pornographic” and has courted controversy for its photographs and express descriptions of oral intercourse and masturbation. (iStock)
Pelley once more narrated over the section as Justice was seen studying examples from books that she introduced in to indicate the sexually express nature of the books in query.
“Tiffany Justice read from sexually explicit books written for older teens but found in a few lower schools,” Pelley stated. “Most people wouldn’t want them in a lower school. But in a tactic of outrage politics, Moms for Liberty takes a kernel of truth and concludes these examples are not rare mistakes but a plot to sexualize children.”
Quite a few books which have come beneath nationwide consideration, together with “Gender Queer,” have been challenged by dad and mom and in school board conferences throughout the nation. “Gender Queer” is a graphic novel that has been referred to as “pornographic” by critics and courted major controversy for its photographs and express descriptions of oral intercourse and masturbation.
Mothers for Liberty, a conservative group based in 2021, has capitalized on anger from dad and mom amid controversy over allegedly sexually express books current in public college lecture rooms and faculty libraries.
In West Virginia, Republicans are in search of to permit legal costs to maneuver ahead towards lecturers and librarians who expose children to sexual materials after dad and mom across the nation have complained about pornographic content material in books in faculties.
Maryland has additionally grow to be a battleground for sexually express supplies in faculties, with the Board of Training in Carroll County, Maryland, unanimously voting in favor of a coverage to limit “sexually explicit” books from faculties on Jan. 10.
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Fox Information’ Hannah Grossman contributed to this report.
