Pontiac Times

U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) introduced a U.S. House resolution called, "pushing back against the labeling of attempts by parents to ensure school curriculum and sports are age and sex appropriate as extreme."

"I introduced this resolution because I’m sick and tired of far-left groups demonizing folks who are just standing up for their rights," McClain told Fox Digital. "I find it disgusting that an organization like Moms for Liberty could be labeled a hate group by SPLC because that’s simply not the case."

McClain is referring to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which recently released its "Year in Hate and Extremism 2022" report. The SPLC says its report includes “1225 hate and anti-government groups across the U.S.,” including Moms for Liberty, which has chapters in twelve Michigan counties.

Moms for Liberty is a national organization with chapters in 44 states. The group’s website says its mission is "fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government."

Old Dominion News reported that Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, said that “Moms for Liberty has been targeted not because they are 'extreme' but because they are effective."

The Washington Free Beacon reported on June 7, 2023 that White House records show the author of the report, Susan Corke, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, met with members of the Biden Administration on January 6 of this year.

"While it is unclear what Corke discussed in the White House visit, the meeting was held amid growing pressure on the Biden administration to track parents upset by schools' coronavirus policies and left-wing classroom curricula," reported the Free Beacon. "Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education have emerged as the leading grassroots groups in the movement against mask mandates at schools and curricula that promote critical race theory and transgender issues."

The resolution introduced by McClain, H.Res. 518, says, "resolved, that the House of Representatives supports parents having a say in their child's education; and opposes (A) allowing biological boys and men to compete in biological girls and women’s sports; (B) the weakening of title IX protections; and (C) labeling parents as extreme and hateful for wanting to keep inappropriate material out of their child’s classroom."