Montgomery News

The president and CEO of an organization that has advocated for parental rights in Nevada for nearly eight years has posted on social media in support of a June 27 rally of Maryland parents against controversial curriculum in Montgomery County Public Schools.

Erin Phillips of the group Power2Parent tweeted on Twitter about the organization’s stance that parents have the right to direct their children’s education and upbringing without governmental interference. Phillips tweeted the organization’s stance while retweeting a post by Asra Nomani, an author and education advocate, who participated in the rally with hundreds of others in Maryland.

“We have fought to keep the right to OPT IN to sex education in Nevada for over 8 years under the leadership of @power2parent,” Phillips tweeted on June 28. “We are called hateful, bigots, out to hurt kids. And yet, the opposite is true. They are OUR kids. Parents are rising up & taking back our power.”

Fox News reported that hundreds of people met outside Montgomery County Public Schools’ headquarters on June 27 to rally against the district’s curriculum. Many parents want the “school district to allow them to opt out of classes and books that discuss topics like sexuality and gender,” Fox News said.

People of various religions faiths such as Christians and Muslims were at the rally, according to Fox News.

“Today, June 27, about 1,000 Arab Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, Peruvian Catholics and so many other brown and black immigrant families outflanked the dozen or so woke white activists who showed up to fight the efforts of parents to opt their kids out of age-inappropriate sexual content in schools,” Nomani said in her Twitter post, which featured a video of the rally. "Look at the contrast in the two sides. See how it defies the mainstream media narrative about ‘intersectionalism’ that has been exploited to actually silence minorities from Asian Americans to Ethiopian Americans. Note: these parents and kids are being ignored by the Democratic politicians who are board members in Montgomery County Public Schools."