by Tanner Smith, Lakeside
Republicans should stand united against things like sexualizing children, explicit books in schools, and gender ideology indoctrination. But eight turncoat “Republican” legislators are instead backing the radical left’s attempts to bring those things into Montana schools.
“No way, that can’t be true!” you’re probably thinking. But unfortunately, it is the situation we’re in. Let me back up and explain.
A conference put on by the far left Montana teachers union drew controversial statewide headlines recently. How could it not, with speakers giving presentations to teachers about things like teaching whatever a gender unicorn is to kids and comparing taking down photos of naked children to Nazi censorship.
The extreme leftism even sparked new legislation from the State Senate President and State Superintendent of Public Instruction to get teacher conferences back to the basics of things like reading and math. What hasn’t gotten enough attention is why that legislation is necessary in the first place.
This year wasn’t the first time the Montana Federation of Public Employees conference drew controversy and the need for reform. It happened last year too. And the legislature already had a bill to fix it—House Bill 557.
House Bill 557 easily passed the House with Republicans voting for it. But then 8 of the infamous “Nasty Nine” senators claiming to be Republicans joined the radical left Democrats to kill the bill and it died 24-26 in the State Senate.
That’s right. Senators Shelley Vance, Wendy McKamey, Bruce Gillespie, Josh Kassmier, Denley Loge, Russ Tempel, Gregg Hunter and Gayle Lammers torpedoed the legislation that would’ve ended the political extremism at teacher conferences.
Why did these self described “Republicans” vote to keep letting teachers be indoctrinated with garbage like “DEI in Art” featuring naked pictures of young children, teaching little kids about transgenderism and sexual attraction with “gender unicorns,” and putting sexually explicit books into middle school libraries?
It’s gross that Vance, McKamey, Gillespie, Kassmier, Loge, Tempel, Hunter and Lammers voted to let this crap be associated with Montana’s public schools in any way. It’s plain disturbing that they voted that way even when we already knew there were problems with these conferences.
Even worse than that, Shelley Vance and Butch Gillespie have the nerve to be running for election again while claiming to be “conservation Republicans.” Wendy McKamey might run as well. You cannot vote to allow the sexualization and radical gender indoctrination of Montana’s schoolchildren and then claim to be Republican.
If they had a shred of decency or respect for Montana parents, these senators would resign in shame instead of trying to win re-election.
Montanans should also call Governor Greg Gianforte and tell his administration to stop funding these “woke Republicans.” His lieutenant governor and budget director both donated to Shelley Vance, knowing full well that she betrayed her voters to stand with the extreme left and indoctrinate our children. Does Gianforte support radical indoctrination of Montana’s kids now?
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