GET ME REWRITE: Tighty Whities at Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty first in line to advocate for homophobic parents

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/24/2022

The conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has sent a letter to the Oconomowoc Area School District on behalf of a local parent who said the district is trying to silence her for complaints about the district's use of what she called age-inappropriate instructional materials. 

WILL sent the letter June 16 on behalf of Alexandra Schweitzer, an Oconomowoc parent, former school board candidate, and president of the Wisconsin chapter of the right-wing group No Left Turn in Education, who claimed there were age-inappropriate books accessible to students on their Chromebook laptops without parental notification. The books are titled "Gender Quest Workbook", "It's Perfectly Normal", and "Queer" and reference sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Schweitzer also said that another book, "The 57 Bus," which contains references to sexual orientation and gender identity, was read aloud in an eighth-grade classroom.

6/19/2022 update, "Tighty Whities at Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty proudly advocate for profoundly profane anti-trans Milwaukee school guidance counselor", starts here.

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/18/2022

WILL team

Darlingh made the remarks at an April 23 anti-trans rally outside the state Capitol, introducing herself by name and occupation on a microphone before stating: 

“Not a single one of my students, under my (fucking) watch, will ever, ever transition socially and sure as hell not medically. Absolutely not.” She went on to say, “(Fuck) transgenderism. (Fuck) it.” 

Days later, the state Department of Public Instruction notified Darlingh it was investigating whether there were grounds to revoke her educator license for "immoral conduct," based on her remarks. 

The investigation is still open. 

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She is being represented by attorneys from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), the conservative law firm that also represented students in Kiel who were under investigation for not using a student's correct pronouns.

6/6/2022 update, "Tighty Whities at Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty inflames homophobic crazies across the nation",  starts here.

Headline:  Wisconsin Examiner, 6/3/2022

Last month, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a right-wing legal organization, sent a letter to the Kiel Area School District asking it to end a Title IX harassment investigation into three eighth-grade boys for repeatedly misgendering a classmate. To further its cause, WILL embarked on a national media campaign to draw attention to the 1,500-student district. 

That attention — which included appearances on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, Newsmax and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal — resulted in six bomb threats made against the district, Kiel City Hall, the Kiel Public Library, the homes of district employees, roads and utility companies in the city. The threats resulted in the district going to virtual school for the remainder of the year, the cancellation of the city’s Memorial Day parade and the postponement of the high school graduation.

And they're so proud of themselves!

5/4/2022 update, "Of course the Tighty Whities at reactionary Wisconsin Institute for Law and Flibbertigibbet see no constitutional right to abortion ", starts here.

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/3/2022 (red box added)

Our Constitution is not a license for unelected judges and justices to engage in a free-wheeling inquiry as to what rights we should or should not have.

4/16/2022 update, "One of the Tighty Whities at WILL gets his undies in a bundle", starts here.

Meet Dan Lennington and his mostly white WILL colleagues.

WILL team

The Daily Wire, 4/16/2022

Dan clutches his pearls about a dance class at the Goodman Branch of the Madison Public Library.  The photo accompanying the article includes a view of UW-Madison Memorial Library.

Related posts:

2022

Tighty Whiteys at WILL say NO to diversity in Cedarburg School District curriculum.  (3/24/2022)

Chalk up another loss for the Tighty Whiteys at WILL.  (3/5/2022)

2021

When Rick Esenberg tells the 4 lapdogs on the Wisconsin Supreme Court to roll over, they earn themselves a doggy bone.  (6/12/2021) 
Tighty Whities at WILL are overdue with a reckoning with whiteness.  (1/13/2021)

WILL expands its white privilege program to a national audience.   (6/18/2021)

Conservative group shows its true colors, fights for white male supremacy.  (5/12/2021)

2000

Tighty whities at WILL cut off circulation to the brain.  (11/23/2020)

Defenders of conservative white privilege askl court to half enforcement of mask mandate.  (9/29/2020) 

GET ME REWRITE: 5 Wisconsin Supreme Court justices wield their rubber stamps. (7/7/2020)

2019
Conservatives in bed together: The Bradley Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (the voter suppression edition).  (11/14/2019)

2016
UPDATE. Free-market, limited-government types push back against Christian Science Monitor article.  (11/5/2016)
Conservative group aligned with Scott Walker hopes to strangle the final breath from local control.  (7/12/2016

2013
In the news:  Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.  (7/2/2013)