Sinclair Broadcasting targets LGBTQ student focused conference and gets it cancelled [View all]
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Under the provocative franchise banner Crisis in the Classroom, right-wing local news giant Sinclair Broadcasting in January targeted a decades-old conference dedicated to addressing the needs of LGBTQ+ students and the faculty and school staff that educate them in private schools.-
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The AIMS Belonging in Gender and Sexual Identity conference has been held annually for 25 years and was scheduled for mid-February at the St. Pauls School for Boys in Baltimore County.
Sinclair published the story without comment from AIMS or any of the groups affiliated schools. Instead, they let Angela Morabito, spokesperson for the Defense of Freedom Institute and press secretary for the Department of Education just before President Joe Biden entered the White House, explain why the AIMS conference is harmful to children.
When youve got a conference at a school thats teaching participants how to circumvent parents or how to tell parents theyre wrong about their own kids, you know that school is not putting students and families first, Morabito told Sinclairs Crisis in the Classroom reporter.
Speaking of parents, she added, They are partners in learning, they are not opponents of learning.
The former Heritage Foundation fellow and Fox News contributor said the AIMS conference aligns with a national trend of misplaced priorities where students are not being taught to be productive members of society.
AIMS executive director Peter Baily told the Baltimore Banner that angry emails, phone calls, and social media commentary soon followed and were amplified a few days later after Project Veritas, known for undercover sting operations on liberal targets, took Sinclairs lead and published a photo of a questionnaire it said was distributed to a fifth-grade class at St. Pauls.