Tag: Culture wars

“This is not the purview of the state government. It is the purview of the federal government.”

The Orange County Board of Education wants to re-define “pornography” to circumvent longstanding procedures for removing controversial books from school library shelves.

Banning abortion after 15 weeks, GOP lawmakers show the bill is about controlling women. They won’t stop there.

One man grabbed the spotlight at a fall school board meeting. Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Jenkins caved. Now LGBTQ and certain BIPOC books can’t be found in school libraries, and bills to make that permanent are under consideration in the Florida Legislature.

After the Orlando Sentinel’s splashy Sunday spread on Moms For Liberty, SPEAKUp’s co-founder had to speak out against censorship.

The governor believes that teaching history as anything other than the “universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence” will cause students to hate and destroy our country. That’s the same reasoning slavers used to forbid teaching enslaved people to read and write out of fear of rebellion.

A Christian conservative Republican gripes that Disney World's changes to make its parks more inclusive capitulates to "woke" politics that won't "offend certain people." Like that's a bad thing?

Along party lines, the Republican-dominated Florida House easily approved a controversial bill that critics say would chill free speech and dissent and criminalize peaceful protest. The legislation has attracted significant opposition from many civil justice groups, student organizations and other activists.

American University antiracist scholar Dr. Traci Dennis on why critical race theory doesn't make students "hate their country" — no matter what Gov. DeSantis says