In political campaigns, legislation, and rhetoric, some far-right political figures have labeled the LGBTQ community as “groomers” — along with anyone who opposes anti-LGBTQ measures — or child predators.
that critical race theory, a discipline taught in law school since the 1970s, was being taught to grade school children.
The real loss, he noted, is for children who may be part of LGBTQ families or who are LGBTQ themselves lose the experience of seeing themselves reflected in such literature. Gays are in good company, not that it is much comfort: Christians have a long history of accusing religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities of abusing, molesting, and killing children. In medieval Europe, Jews were frequently accused of ritually killing Christian children—the blood libel—often to use their blood to make matzah. Fictitious victims—Little Hugh of Lincoln, William of Norwich, Simon of Trent—were even canonized as saints to drum up fervor for pogroms.
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