Christian and Muslim parents, many with a migrant background, have come together to protest against LGBTQ books being included in the school curriculum in Montgomery County. Families demonstrated outside a school board meeting demanding an opt-out option from the “inclusive” K-12 curriculum, which educators and officials have taken away.
The books in question include a title called Pride Puppy, which asks its child readers to see if they can spot items including an “intersex [flag],” “leather,” and “underwear” among the illustrations. Other titles center on characters being attracted to or marrying people of the same sex, or transitioning to a new gender.
Asra Nomani, a former Georgetown University professor who attended the protest, said “about 1,000 Arab Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, Peruvian Catholics and so many other brown and black immigrant families outflanked the dozen or so woke white activists who showed up” at Tuesday’s protests, adding that the demonstrating families were being “ignored by the Democratic politicians who are board members in Montgomery County Public Schools.”
Today, at the corner of Campus Drive and Mannakee Street, in Montgomery County, Maryland, woke intersectionalism came to die.
Today, June 27, about 1,000 Arab Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, Peruvian Catholics and so many other brown and black immigrant families outflanked the… pic.twitter.com/G623Q6Sw7x
— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) June 28, 2023