Mon Apr 4, 2022 – 10:01 am EDT
FLORIDA (LifeSiteNews) — Homosexual advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to stop Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education Act.
The legislation, signed last week by Governor Ron DeSantis, aims to protect students from teachers and counselors who might groom them to identify as homosexual or transgender, meaning gender dysphoric. It applies to schoolchildren until fourth grade. Critics have called it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, though that word appears nowhere in the legislation.
The homosexual groups state in their filing that the law is an “an unlawful attempt to stigmatize, silence, and erase LGBTQ people in Florida’s public schools.”
“It seeks to do so by imposing a sweeping, vague ban covering any instruction on ‘sexual orientation and gender identity,’ and by constructing a diffuse enforcement scheme designed to maximize the chilling effect of this prohibition,” attorneys argued on behalf of Equality Florida, Family Equality and individual plaintiffs.
The law would also “deny to an entire generation that LGBTQ people exist and have equal dignity” and “control young minds through state censorship.” It would “demean LGBTQ lives by denying their reality” and is a “grave abuse of power.”
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