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Republican presidential candidates canoodle with Moms for Liberty

They hope that whipping up maternal fervour will propel them to the nomination

Moms for Liberty founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich with Governor Ron DeSantis
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|Philadelphia

According to Catalina Stubbe, under the guise of sex education Florida schools are teaching boys to masturbate. This may be the result of demonic forces she saw at work in her own child’s classroom. When her seven-year-old’s maths homework repeatedly featured the number 666 (interpreted by some to signal the devil) she knew there were leftists behind it. Ms Stubbe is not only the parent of a schoolchild in Florida. She is the national director of Hispanic outreach for Moms for Liberty, a parents’-rights group made up of self-proclaimed “joyful warriors” who refuse to “co-parent with the government”.

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