Florida Governor sued by LGBTQ+ group over 'Don’t Say Gay' bill
gcn.ieAn LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Florida has sued Governor Ron DeSantis after he signed the highly problematic ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill on Tuesday 29 March.We're proud to represent our extraordinary plaintiffs in challenging Florida’s discriminatory and unconstitutional #DontSayGay law.Here’s our complaint: https://t.co/oYKRz1wYCb@NCLRights @equalityfl @family_equality pic.twitter.com/GI5rQSQrPc— Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP (@KaplanHecker) March 31, 2022The lawsuit has been filed in a federal court in Tallahassee by the National Centre for Lesbian Rights on behalf of Equality Florida and Family Equality.
They each believe that the new law is a violation of the First Amendment rights to free expression and other provisions of the United States Constitution.In a statement announcing their proceedings against the Governor, the LGBTQ+ group says that “This effort to control young minds through state censorship — and to demean LGBTQ lives by denying their reality — is a grave abuse of power.” The case also states that “The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that LGBTQ people and their families are at home in our constitutional order.
The State of Florida has no right to declare them outcasts, or to treat their allies as outlaws, by punishing schools where someone dares to affirm their identity and dignity.” A post shared by NCLR (@nclrights)In addition to this, the lawsuit includes statements from parents affected by the bill, including this emotional one from Dan and Brent VanTice: “Already, our children have told us that they are afraid that they will not be able to talk about their parents at school.
