{"id":1959356,"date":"2023-06-28T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/multi-faith-coalition-of-immigrant-parents-protest-maryland-public-schools-woke-sex-ed\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:39:03","slug":"multi-faith-coalition-of-immigrant-parents-protest-maryland-public-schools-woke-sex-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/multi-faith-coalition-of-immigrant-parents-protest-maryland-public-schools-woke-sex-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant parents unite to protest Maryland schools&#8217; woke sex ed."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmulti-faith-coalition-of-immigrant-parents-protest-maryland-public-schools-woke-sex-ed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959356&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Woke Intersectionalism Comes to Die in Rockville<\/h2>\n<p>Here at the crossroads of Mannakee Street and College Drive in the suburbs of the nation\u2019s capital, woke intersectionalism came to die.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the headquarters of Montgomery County Public Schools, a cleric at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dskmariamdc.org\/en\/about-us\">local Ethiopian Orthodox church<\/a> stood in a white turban, gold-colored robe, and church insignia. Like Seyouman Getahun was in an interfaith crowd of about 1,000 parents, students, and community members. The crowd of largely \u201cbrown and black\u201d people, as equity warriors so often colorize minorities, rallied for the right of parents to opt children out of age-inappropriate sex education in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crt-cannot-coexist-with-christianity-meet-the-man-waging-theological-war-against-critical-race-theory\/\" title=\"\u2018CRT Cannot Coexist With Christianity\u2019: Meet The Man Waging Theological War Against Critical Race Theory\">local public schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Meet Like Seyouman Getahun, a cleric at a local Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He told me why he was at the Montgomery County MD rally. I am putting 7 minutes of our chat here so you can hear from people in the trenches. Watch his reactions to Gay BCs and Gender Queer at the end! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SoCLuFlqrF\">pic.twitter.com\/SoCLuFlqrF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><cite>Asra Nomani \u2022 Defeating the #WokeArmy (@AsraNomani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsraNomani\/status\/1674045537002061825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Co-organized by a new group called <a href=\"https:\/\/coalitionofvirtue.org\/\">Coalition of Virtue<\/a>, these parents are the \u201cintersectional\u201d answer to the Woke Army. The Woke Army are the leftist activists who exploit \u201cblack, indigenous, people of color\u201d (BIPOC) to put children in the crosshairs of the \u201crainbow mafia\u201d in K-12 schools. These parents who defy their stereotypes are the Woke Army\u2019s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians from an estimated 40 local churches, including Getahun\u2019s, rallied beside Muslim immigrant families from a dozen mosques and other area community members. Their ranks included a Filipino-Puerto Rican-American Christian dad and a Peruvian-American Catholic mother.<\/p>\n<p>All were here to protest the refusal of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nc-dem-senate-challenger-votes-against-bipartisan-school-reopening-bill\/\" title=\"NC Dem Senate Challenger Votes Against Bipartisan School Reopening Bill\">local school board<\/a>, all affiliated at some point with Democratic Party politics, to allow parents to opt their kids out of sex ed that includes an introduction to homosexual behavior and gender identities that contradict one\u2019s natural sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hill is where the democrats have chosen [to] die. Bizarre. Totally bizarre,\u201d said a Twitter user.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, at the corner of Campus Drive and Mannakee Street, in Montgomery County, Maryland, woke intersectionalism came to die.<\/p>\n<p>Today, June 27, about 1,000 Arab Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, Peruvian Catholics and so many other brown and black immigrant families outflanked the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G623Q6Sw7x\">pic.twitter.com\/G623Q6Sw7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><cite>Asra Nomani \u2022 Defeating the #WokeArmy (@AsraNomani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsraNomani\/status\/1673914342016708614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Rockville to <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/fights-break-out-amid-glendale-school-board-meeting-on-pride-curriculum\/\">Glendale, Calif<\/a>., where Armenian American parents oppose school board indoctrination, a new \u201cintersectional\u201d rejection of wokeism includes voters up for grabs by Republican politicians and efforts like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolabels.org\/\">No Labels<\/a>, which may advocate for a third-party presidential candidate in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVote them out!\u201d the Rockville crowd chanted, packed shoulder to shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The protestors\u2019 demands were simple enough: \u201cProtect families\u2019 rights!\u201d \u201cWhat do we want? Opt out! When do we want it? Now!\u201d \u201cWe want freedom! We want rights!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across the parking lot, about a dozen all-white leftist activists stood, chatting with each other. They looked awkward and out of place, with rainbow umbrellas over their heads but no rain yet and soap bubbles from a party machine streaming by.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WokeArmy?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WokeArmy<\/a> is dealt a lethal blow. The battlefront: Montgomery County, Maryland. TODAY. The hard-left came after the kids and Muslim parents aren\u2019t having it. \ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County Public Schools recently refused to allow parents to opt out of indoctrination that relates to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KIMTI1fAIM\">pic.twitter.com\/KIMTI1fAIM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><cite>Asra Nomani \u2022 Defeating the #WokeArmy (@AsraNomani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsraNomani\/status\/1666267708332077058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2023<\/a><\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This multicultural crowd was anything but \u201coutside influences.\u201d It was filled with recent immigrants who live locally. These parents made an argument that parent groups are increasingly expressing around the country and in Canada, asserting religious freedom rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur beliefs! Our choice! Religious freedom, raise your voice,\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n<p>Peruvian-American mother Norma Margulies carried a handmade sign that read: \u201c<strong>Respetemos el derecho de las familias a compartir su cultura y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/multi-faith-coalition-of-immigrant-parents-protest-maryland-public-schools-woke-sex-ed\/\" title=\"Immigrant parents unite to protest Maryland schools' woke sex ed.\">religi\u00f3n con sus hijos<\/a> e hijas!<\/strong>\u201d \u201cRespect the rights of families to share their culture and religion with their children, sons and daughters,\u201d she translated, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s a basic right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margulies joined the protest from her home in nearby Fairfax County, Va., with a friend, Tony Sabio. He\u2019s the son of parents from the Philippines and Puerto Rico and a military veteran who <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/how-teenage-boy-was-rescued-from-ukraine-in-invasion-and-brought-to-america\/\">rescued a boy from Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sabio said he is <a href=\"https:\/\/sabio4fairfax.com\/\">running<\/a> for school board in Fairfax County because of the disenfranchisement of parents. \u201cI\u2019m here for these parents,\u201d Sabio said over the crowd\u2019s chants as he carried the American flag over his shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, woke activists have exploited \u201cintersectionality.\u201d That\u2019s a concept critical race theorist Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagounbound.uchicago.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&#038;context=uclf\">invented in 1989<\/a> to look at injustices through the prism of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.columbia.edu\/news\/archive\/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality-more-two-decades-later\">\u201cintersectionality\u201d<\/a> of various allegedly oppressed social identities. While the idea had some merits, far-left activists and politicians have weaponized it.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Maryland and Virginia parents have held sign-making events and parent educational seminars at local places of worship including mosques like the Islamic Center of Maryland and affiliates of the Medhanialem Orthodox Church. Holding signs that read \u201cRespect Our Values\u201d and \u201cParents Know Best,\u201d they voiced concerns about the sex curriculum being taught to their children.<\/p>\n<p>Across the street from the school system\u2019s offices, a strip of locally owned storefronts showcased the diversity in this suburb community. On Hungerford Drive, an Ethiopian restaurant sits beside Island Pride Jamaican Restaurant, Yunnan Rice Noodle, Aria Halal Supermarket, and 5-10 Quick Mart.<\/p>\n<p>In the crowd, Getahun, the Ethiopian Orthodox cleric, told me he was there to support parental rights as enshrined in the 14th Amendment and the U.S. Constitution. He flipped through copies of the books <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DvQVx-qBBSY\">\u201cThe Gay BCs\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gAAwryld5lk\">\u201cGender Queer\u201d<\/a> tucked in my <a href=\"https:\/\/asrainvestigates.substack.com\/p\/my-mary-poppins-bag-of-age-inappropriate?utm_source=profile&#038;utm_medium=reader2\">\u201cMary Poppins\u201d bag<\/a> of inappropriate books in public schools and furrowed his brow at the images.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cT is for TRANS,\u201d he read, not the usual \u201ctrains\u201d in most books teaching the ABCs. \u201cIt\u2019s a brave step to take,\u201d he continued, \u201cto take to live as the gender you know is innate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book is meant for toddlers, as young as three.<\/p>\n<p>While the rally primarily focused on the right to opt out of sex curriculum, the attendees also saw the school board\u2019s refusal to address their concerns as an infringement on their religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby a rally organizer, Ismail Royer, a director of Islam and religious freedom at the Religious Freedom Institute based in Washington, D.C., said: \u201cThis is the intersection, this is the alliance that really matters. This is the moral consensus that is at the heart of the American moral tradition and virtue tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By about 5 p.m., the rally ended, with Getahun among the last leaving the rally off Mannakee Street and College Drive, as members of this new intersectional alliance chanted, \u201cWe will prevail!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Rockville, Maryland, the intersection of Mannakee Street and College Drive witnessed the demise of woke intersectionalism. 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