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🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | In July 2022, 2022, the same summer that Wren asked a judge for permission to leave Texas and cut ties with her mother. A 28 year old a mindlessly scrolling Twitter. Yeah, I was in my house, |
0:24.2 | enjoying like an ordinary week, |
0:26.5 | and then all of a sudden I see my mom's face. |
0:29.1 | The word I have on my heart is repentance, |
0:31.6 | just to think about that as adults that not all of us had a |
0:35.1 | hand and what's happened here but we are the ones who are present to solve the |
0:39.8 | issues. That's Monica Brown, Westin's mother, speaking at a May 2022 school board meeting in Granbury, Texas, a town about an hour away from Grapevine. |
0:51.0 | I had tweeted a video of her speech to give an example of how he did the debate over school |
0:56.1 | library books had gotten and now Weston was seeing my tweet on his feed. |
1:01.0 | In the clip, Monica was calling on the school board to repent for giving students |
1:06.0 | access to books that she believed could be damaging to their hearts and minds. |
1:10.7 | Just like this one, and I'm sorry to point point fingers but we have librarians who |
1:15.0 | are misunderstanding what is healthy and good for children. We're talking about |
1:18.6 | graphic inappropriate material for children as young as age 11. |
1:23.2 | Monica is a mother of nine who leads a Christian homeschool and cooperative. |
1:27.8 | None of her kids, including Weston, have ever attended public school. |
1:32.0 | But here she was was calling for criminal charges |
1:34.7 | against school librarians and suggesting that a local Christian pastor should be |
1:39.6 | put in charge of reviewing what books public school children can read. |
1:43.4 | And he would never steer you wrong and he'll put you in a safety zone with your books. |
1:47.4 | You don't have to have these ultra controversial books in your library. |
1:51.5 | And literally you have... |
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