Anti-LGBTQ sentiments on display at Killeen ISD board meeting
Homophobic rhetoric was on display by a group of Temple residents during the Killeen Independent School District’s school board meeting this week.
Three residents from Temple, organized by the Concerned Christian Citizens, asked the Killeen ISD school board to take a position of “neutrality” after the group took issue with a KISD Career Center Women’s History Month bulletin board which included two historic LGBTQ activists — Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera — among other honorees in March of the last school year. The Temple group’s timing comes on the heels of a rise in anti-LGBT sentiment in state government with Gov. Greg Abbott and some state politicians calling on the removal of what Abbott calls “pornographic” public school library books featuring LGBTQ characters.
In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified the Temple-based CCC as an anti-LGBT hate group because of its efforts to censor an LGBTQ pride month display at the Temple Public Library.
Leonard Halleen, of Temple, who rode into the boardroom on a motorized scooter sporting a Trump bumper sticker, told the Killeen school board Tuesday homosexuality is “unnatural.”
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(Killeen Daily Herald)