A New Jersey mother is suing U.S. military officials and her local police chief over the orchestration of a censorship campaign she says coerced the deletion of a Facebook post she made that was critical of sex education.
Angela Reading, a third-year law student at Villanova and mom of two, filed the lawsuit Wednesday claiming an entourage of law enforcement portrayed her as a “security threat” when she objected to a “polysexual” flyer in school.
In November, Reading, who served on her county’s regional board of education until the incident, complained on Facebook after she said her 7-year-old daughter asked what “polysexual” meant at an elementary “Math Night.”
“Why are elementary schools promoting/allowing elementary KIDS to research topics of sexuality and create posters?” Reading wrote. “This is not in the state elementary standards (law) nor in the BOE-approved curriculum. It’s perverse and should be illegal to expose my kids to sexual content.”
Lt. Col. Christopher Schilling, of the nearby Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, flagged Reading’s comments as “security concerns” in a private Facebook post of his own. The base, he added, was working with local police to “monitor the situation” and “ensure the continued safety of the community,” according to the New York Post.
“I was more than surprised. I was scared,” Reading said of Schilling’s response in an interview on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” last December. “I actually pulled my kids from school the day I found out. It was mind-boggling and I was worried for them
