Moms for Liberty goes ballistic on librarian for planned reading of book about girl with two dads

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

In Tennessee, near Chattanooga, a local librarian planned a special Mother’s Day reading for young children, and got called a “groomer” in the bargain.

Then her boss caved by canceling the event quicker than a Tennessee auctioneer.

Caroline Mickey, the librarian at Alpine Crest Elementary School, planned a Mother’s Day lesson that would be “sensitive to the fact that not all students live with a mother,” celebrating people who aren’t moms, but “fill the motherly roles in our lives.”

In a note to parents sent home with their kids — kindergarten through second graders — Mickey said the two books to be read aloud included Mother Bruce, about a papa bear who adopts a brood of goslings, and Stella Brings the Family, the story of a girl with two dads and some questions about Mother’s Day.

Both books are rated age-appropriate for two- to five-year-olds.

In accordance with school policy, Mickey wrote that parents could opt out of the lesson and she’d provide an alternative.

Enter Moms for Liberty.

The reaction was…

Read full story, and more, from Source: Moms for Liberty goes ballistic on librarian for planned reading of book about girl with two dads