Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

'Moms For Liberty' Rails Against TN School Librarian Over Book About Girl With Two Dads

librarian reading to students with excerpt of librarian's note overlaid
M4L - Chattanooga, Tn/Facebook; Peter Cade/Getty Images

A Tennessee chapter of the conservative group took to Facebook to complain about a Hamilton County School librarian's plan to read 'Stella Brings the Family' to highlight family differences ahead of Mother's Day.

The Moms for Liberty are at it again.

A Tennessee chapter of the far-right conservative group is raising a ruckus in Hamilton County, Tennessee over the local library's planned Mother's Day story time for kids.


Sounds harmless enough right? But school librarian Caroline Mickey announced her event would be “sensitive to the fact that not all students live with a mother"--and the Moms for Liberty weren't having any of that, especially since the books chosen for the story time included one about a little girl with two dads.

So, the Moms for Liberty did what they do best--promoting liberty by trying to ban books from being read to kids and calling a librarian a pedophile in the process.

In a note sent home to parents of students at Alpine Crest Elementary School outside Chattanooga, Mickey describe the story time event and why it would be inclusive of stories about kids who don't live with a mother, or at least what we traditionally define as one.

In her note, she wrote:

"I'm planning a lesson that celebrates those who fill the motherly roles in our lives: those who make our lunches, kiss away our hurts, and who teach us how to fly."

This of course includes children whose mothers are simply dead. And accordingly, Mickey's book choices not only included the book about a little girl with two dads, Stella Brings The Family, but also one called Mother Bruce, about a bear who adopts a group of motherless goslings.

The fact that children are often motherless for myriad reasons beyond the fact that gay men exist seemed to escape Moms for Liberty's notice. Even after Mickey specifically stipulated that parents are free to opt their kids out of the lesson, the group went full-on combative, first taking to Facebook to register their outrage.

In its Facebook post on the matter, they demanded to know:

"Why do children with traditional family values have to opt out and be sent to an alternative place for alternative lesson? Aren’t these children too young for this?"

In a local newspaper, they were even more pointed and bigoted about it, writing:

“Men are not mothers. Men are fathers. Fathers are men. Mothers are women. If the primary caregiver is a man, he is a father.”

And in emails, they were even worse, accusing Mickey of being a "groomer" and "an enemy of traditional birth mothers," whatever that means. Mickey herself called the uproar "overwhelming."

In the end, Mickey's boss, Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Justin Robertson, capitulated to the group and canceled the event, despite its nationwide membership representing a vanishingly small minority of 95,000 parents in a country with a population of 331 million people.

On social media, people were appalled by Mothers for Liberty's response.







Hopefully the next school system Moms for Liberty attacks will have more courage to stand up to them than Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Justin Robertson.

Bullies only get stronger when you back down, as many of us learned in elementary school.

More from Trending

Kid Rock
Todd Kirkland/Getty Images

Kid Rock Dragged After Donning A Truly Over-The-Top Outfit For His White House Visit

Singer Kid Rock was slammed for wearing a loud patriotic costume inside the Oval Office as Republican President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday against ticket scalping.

The rocker's outfit consisted of a red, white, and blue jacket emblazoned with two eagles facing each other above the American flag with the number 250, a nod to America's upcoming 250th anniversary, and white stars on his sleeves.

Keep ReadingShow less
Screenshot of Bill Cassidy
CNBC

MAGA Senator Just Said The Quiet Part Out Loud With Epic Freudian Slip About Medicare

Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy was widely mocked following his inconvenient slip of the tongue during a CNBC interview as he mused about finding ways to "cut" Medicare before quickly correcting himself.

The exchange occurred after host Rebecca Quick pressed Louisiana Republican and former physician Bill Cassidy on how his party intended to fund the “trillion-dollar tax cuts” sought by President Donald Trump.

Keep ReadingShow less
Screenshot of Tim Sheehy
CNN

GOP Senator Gets Blunt Reality Check After Comparing Trump Tariff 'Pain' To Home Renovation

Montana Republican Senator Tim Sheehy was criticized after he tried to compare the "short-term pain" of President Donald Trump's tariffs to home renovation, a claim so ridiculous that CNN's Kaitlan Collins quickly pushed back on the analogy.

Trump has repeatedly referred to April 2 as “Liberation Day,” pledging to impose tariffs—taxes on imports—to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign goods. He has framed these tariffs as “reciprocal,” aiming to match the duties other nations place on American exports.

Keep ReadingShow less
Susan Crawford; Elon Musk
Scott Olson/Getty Images (left and right)

Liberal Wisconsin Judge Calls Out Elon Musk In Victory Speech—And It's Everything

Liberal judge Susan Crawford called out billionaire Elon Musk in her victory speech after winning a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, basking in successfully beating her Republican opponent Brad Schimel and ensuring that the nonpartisan court’s narrow 4-3 liberal majority remains intact despite Musk's efforts to sway the race.

Musk fueled the high-stakes race, having poured more than $20 million into supporting Schimel, according to state campaign records. That includes $3 million to the state Republican Party—$2 million of which was donated just last week. Due to state election laws, large contributions must be funneled through political parties before reaching candidates.

Keep ReadingShow less

People Describe The Worst 'Bonus' They've Ever Gotten At Work

Most of us have worked at one problematic workplace, with reasons ranging from toxic coworkers to terrible bosses to unlivable pay. Sometimes, it feels like a joke that the employees are even being paid at all!

But the biggest joke of all might be the end-of-year bonus, or lack thereof. They're at times so laughable, they take the cake for horrible work conditions, or are quite literally, a slice of cake.

Keep ReadingShow less