Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary, never will I wonder why I didn't cast my vote!
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary, never will I wonder why I didn’t cast my vote!
We are in a bit of a dramatic mood this evening!
Tomorrow is the last day to vote or to drop off your mail in ballot. We don’t engage much in making primary endorsements EXCEPT when it comes to the BOE race.
8 candidates get through after tomorrow. Let’s make sure we get as many hate slate candidates off the ballot as possible!
There’s been some good ole Republican drama that reminds us of the…
Board of Education candidate Heather Fletcher said she felt "disturbed" when she thought that children might see pronoun pins, so she ran off with them...
Daniel Villarreal at LGBTQ Nation:
Heather Fletcher, a conservative candidate for the Frederick County Board of Education in Maryland, recently checked out 20 books from a Pride Month display at the Brunswick Public Library to protect children’s “innocence.”
Fletcher checked out the books on Tuesday and also took a library cup full of “pronoun pins” which help people display the pronouns they use.
“This has nothing to do with the gay community,” Fletcher disingenuously told The Frederick News-Post. “It has to do with the preservation of innocence.”
Fletcher said she felt “disturbed” that her three kids or other children might see the word “queer” on a book and then ask “age-inappropriate” questions. She asked the library staff to move the books from the building’s main lobby to make the library a “safe place for children.” The staff refused, so she checked out the books.
Fletcher said she would return the books, but she isn’t sure whether she’ll return the cup of pins. She also said she doesn’t plan on patronizing county libraries ever again. The library’s policies allow people to re-check out books 10 times concurrently. Despite Fletcher’s efforts, the library simply refilled the Pride Month display with different LGBTQ books.
The candidate continued her anti-LGBTQ crusade during a Wednesday night meeting of the Frederick County Public Libraries Board of Trustees meeting where she complained about taxpayer money being used to purchase the pronoun pins. The only problem: she was wrong.
Frederick County Board of Education candidate Heather Fletcher checked out all the LGBTQ+-affirming books and stole the pronoun buttons under the phony guise of "protecting childhood innocence."
Make sure you do your research!
In light of Heather Fletcher’s national news making act of stealing the pronoun pins and checking out all the PRIDE display books from the Brunswick library, we’ve been getting quite a few inquiries as to which candidates should be avoided. This post will revisit some of our election posts (focused heavily on the school board) to get everyone up to speed!
In our…
