Publix Heiress Gives $50k to Anti-LGBTQ+ Moms for Liberty
Orlando Weekly reports. Like Publix, it’s based in Florida. The donation, made in June, was the first major one to Moms for Liberty, and the money has gone to school board candidates, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the paper.Last year, Fancelli was a leading funder of Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally, which questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election and led to the insurrection at the U.S.
Capitol January 6, 2021, in which Trump supporters violently interrupted Congress’s vote to certify that Joe Biden had won the election.Moms for Liberty, which has 200 chapters across the nation, bills itself as a “parental rights” organization.
Its website encourages parents to be informed about their children’s schooling and to ask questions about lessons on topics such as gender identity, unconscious racism, and more.
The site doesn’t take direct stances on those issues, but coverage of the group’s recent summit in Tallahassee, Fla., paints a far less neutral picture.“Teachers are brainwashing students into thinking they’re transgender or queer, several presenters said,” according to the Tallahassee Democrat. “Books and lessons teaching racial and gender equity are sowing division and hatred.
