‘Portland is not exempt from the Constitution,’ and neither is Bow or Kearsage nor Nashua, or any liberal enclave near wherever you live. It exists to protect us from, increasingly, liberal scolds and their bizarre obsession with chemically (or even surgically) castrating children.
Not that long ago, anyone who did that, even with parental consent, might be arrested or jailed; go back in time a bit further, and the question would be a matter of justified homicide, with most thinking, yes, most certainly. Who could let such a villain live?
No one is suggesting murder as a solution, but the same people who stand firm on grooming and then chemically castrating children are as likely to glorify murder if it’s the right person, or a “right” person on the pointing end of the stick, the knife, or the gun.
Morality is a shifting morass of increasingly conflicted worldviews, but chemically castrating children before they even know the value of an intimate relationship is heinous and evil. Anyone who makes excuses for it should be questioned, challenged, ridiculed, and professionally neutered.
Politically as well.
But there are enough idiots in a community to sustain any idea, no matter how sinister.
A Christian mom is suing Portland Public Schools after officials barred her from her children’s elementary school for a year in alleged retaliation for criticizing its transgender policies.
She’s going to win, eventually, and neither the school district nor anyone who thinks their unconstitutional acts are a necessary response cares.
The school was grooming her child. She objected. They publicly sold her, harassed her, labeling her the intolerant one for daring to question their lessons or to ask questions or challenge their agenda.
The First Amendment exists for that very purpose, and a government school is ground zero for a government agenda, asserted by public employees, at the expense of the community, and the community, no matter how much it favors mob rule, cannot deny her that right.
And yet these people, who are so obsessed with their own credentials and impressing each other with them, are incapable of even the most basic understanding of their obligation to the people who pay their generous salaries.
[Allison] Roberts is suing Portland Public Schools; the district’s senior director of schools, Chandra Wilson-Cooper; and Lewis Elementary’s principal, Deanne Froehlich. She claims the defendants violated her First Amendment right to free speech by retaliating against her speech and discriminating against her based on her viewpoint, and violated her First Amendment right to free exercise of religion by imposing transgender ideology.
She may not win in Portland, or perhaps even Washington State, but she’ll win in the Circuit or Supreme Court. She’s got a pro bono pro-justice law firm that will carry the case as far as it needs to go, but the self-described smartest people in the room don’t care. In part because it’s not their money they are spending; it belongs to taxpayers, and also because there is rarely any actual individual consequence.
Some years from now, when SCOTUS writes a WTF decision to the district or circuit court that let it get this far, the bully at the beginning likely pays no price. The parent might get satisfaction, but her daughter is likely an adult, and the administrators have gotten along doing the same thing to other people’s sons and daughters the whole time.
Winning is itself an albatross, assuming the mom hasn’t been driven out of town before they find a court that recognizes that her First Amendment rights were violated.
“For time immemorial, going back to the Revolutionary War era, public participation by handing out pamphlets or letters on the sidewalk is something that is afforded the highest constitutional scrutiny and protection,” Timothy Snowball, senior counsel for the Liberty Justice Center’s PARENTS Initiative and Roberts’ attorney, told the Daily Signal in an interview Friday. …
“Portland is not exempt from the Constitution,” Snowball noted.
It almost makes you pine for the old days. A little tar, a few feathers, and if they survive that, a fast horse out of town.
There’s no place for that sort of justice because a mob, as often as not, is going to get it wrong, which they have with Allison Roberts. She has a right to disagree. The school does not have a right to constrain that as long as she is peaceful and lawful, which is more than we can say for school district administrators, almost all of whom are overpaid, and not just because they trample people’s rights and expect taxpayers to pay for the litigation to defend it.
