![]() The passage of Florida’s House Bill 1557, which bans “classroom instruction” on “sexual orientation and gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade and in a manner that isn’t “age appropriate or developmentally appropriate” in all grades, K–12, is merely the latest in a string of what the free-speech-advocacy organization PEN America has called “ education gag orders” that have been proposed by Republicans and passed by red-state legislatures from coast to coast.Īs the Republican Party evolves from a party focused on individual liberty and limits on government power to a party that more fully embraces government control of the economy and morality, it is reversing many of its previous stances on free speech in public universities, in public education, and in private corporations. The American right has lost the plot on free speech. ![]() Sign up for David’s newsletter, The Third Rail, here.
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