A sex educator in Michigan refused to be shamed. Then came the backlash.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/michigan-sex-educator-culture-wars/

No paywall
https://archive.li/Waf5z


HOLLAND, Mich. — Heather Alberda watched as her elected representatives on the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners sought to dismantle what remained of her life’s work.

As the sex educator for the county’s health department, Alberda, 46, developed programs to lower teen pregnancy and curb the spread of sexually transmitted infections. She spoke about sex and sexuality with a directness that was rare in her conservative county and sometimes got her into trouble.

A late June meeting of the county board was streaming on Alberda’s living room TV. The board’s vice chair, Sylvia Rhodea, was introducing a resolution that sought to “protect childhood innocence” by blocking the county from spending money on programs that “normalize or encourage the sexualization of children.”

Rhodea, one of eight self-described conservative Christians elected last November to the 11-person board, began by describing what she saw as the threat posed by LGBTQ+ groups and the Pride flag. In much of America, the rainbow banner represented the acceptance of gay, lesbian and transgender people.

To Rhodea, it meant something very different. It was, she announced, “time to define the plus” in the LGBTQ+ movement. “Over 50 different flags are flown under the LGBTQ+ flag,” Rhodea said. Their ranks, she continued, included pedophiles, polygamists and furries, which she described as “those who dress as furry animals and may use litter boxes.”

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. pointing at yourselves again? deflect.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Here's she is, I do believe she uses a litter box ME-OW

Her office contact info which I got off their website
Sylvia Rhodea, Vice-Chairperson
[phone]
[e-mail]



I'm so sick and tired of these lying busy bodies

I certainly don’t want to impose upon their beliefs even though I don’t really care. However, I do care when they want to control, manipulate, lie and force their beliefs on everyone else.


Go worship in peace and leave the rest of us alone. On yeah, they don’t know how to worship in peace because they are so full of hate.