Moms for Liberty founder leaves rightwing leadership role amid queer sex scandal & rape allegations

The co-founder of the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group Moms for Liberty seems to have resigned from her most recent position in the wake of rape allegations against her husband and her own involvement in a same-sex sex scandal.

Since August 2022, Bridget Ziegler has served as the director of the School Board Leadership Program at the Leadership Institute, an organization that trains conservative activists. Ziegler is no longer listed in the role on the website, and someone new appears to have been named in her place. Bridget Ziegler is also facing calls for her to resign from the Sarasota School Board.

At the same time, the Florida GOP appears to be working to expel or censure Bridget Ziegler’s husband, Christian Ziegler, from his role as chairman of the state’s Republican party. Gov. Ron DeSantis ® has called on Christian Ziegler to resign, but he has refused, maintaining that the rape allegations against him are false.

Showroom7561,

The co-founder of the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group…

Bridget Ziegler has since admitted to detectives that she, her husband, and her husband’s accuser were involved in a consensual sexual encounter over a year ago.

You honestly can’t make this stuff up with hate group leaders. It happens all the time!

But it really does say a lot about the state of her community, if coming out gay is so hard that she needs to be anti-gay as a cover.

meco03211,

The only moral gay orgies are my gay orgies!

Hegar,
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if coming out gay is so hard that she needs to be anti-gay as a cover.

I don't think that's what's going on.

It sounds like her and her rapist husband had a threesome and arranged for another. Then she pulled out and the other woman said if she's out I'm out too. Then the husband ran into the other woman and raped her.

Certainly most people who rabidly hate something are hating something in themselves, but it sounds to me like her rapist husband pressured her into a threesome she wasn't into.

Bristlecone,

Well, I don’t want to sound insensitive but that’s what happens when you marry conservatives

rhadamanth_nemes,

These motherfuckers are reading Handmaid’s Tale and taking policy notes.

jasory,

Well apparently there were video recordings, one of which does not corroborate the “ambushing” claim made in this article.

BlackSkinnedJew,

Girls just wanna have fun…

IphtashuFitz,

Hypocritesayswhat?

NickwithaC,
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Every accusation is a confession.

trackcharlie,

It’s always entertaining to see that the loudest voices against something in a room are usually the ones actually partaking in what they’re bitching about.

“rules for thee, not for me” to a whole new level.

ZeroTemp,

It would be down right hilarious if it didn’t keep happening all the time.

Octavio,

This is the kind of stuff you see on a Netflix series and think, “OK they’ve really jumped the shark this time.”

dangblingus,

Why is literally every single Republican such a ghoul? Why are they all rapists and pedophiles and cheaters and hypocrites?

CyberDine,

1 of 2 political parties in America is basically stating “we do not care how morally bankrupt you are, if you always tow the party line, we will give you power and cover.”

Your average Joe, unless they are an idiot, already sees the GOP for what it is and would stay away. But for a ghoul, the GOP seems like a great place to have certain proclivities and then the power and shield to ensure you can’t be prosecuted.

jasory,

Because your choice of news sources selects for a certain political group.

Remember that Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky alleged behaviour by Bill Clinton that would easily be considered sexual assault if not rape nowadays; Anthony Weiner went to prison for sexting a 15-year old. There is ton more examples of Democratic politicians that meet the same (low) standard of evidence that is shown in this article, in fact they probably mostly exist in local news articles.

nonfuinoncuro,

not a drag queen

boomzilla,

Great sub and yeah fuck spez

NickwithaC,
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Nor a trans person in a bathroom.

lemmy_get_my_coat,

Same as it ever was

ZosoRocks3,

Same as it Ever was

uhmbah,

Same as it ever Was

mouth_brood,

Same as it ever was

Ooops,
Ooops avatar

Just a purely coincidental singular case of an anti-LGBTQ+ leading zealot showing it's all projection... again for the ...who does even still keep track?... time.

Rapidcreek,

The Republican party of Florida is trying very hard now to fire another of her threesome.

Lettuceeatlettuce,
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Insert surprised Pikachu meme here.

linearchaos,
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Sounds like she’s a little more into liberty than they are.

Illuminostro,

You spelled “Labia” wrong.

linearchaos,
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Touché!

arquebus_x,

I just love how the ( R ) got translated into the Registered symbol.

…Governor Ron DeSantis (registered trademark)…

TheCrispyDud,
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Well I'm sure he's just a front and that someone owns him so it makes sense in a way.

ArugulaZ,
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So long, Hausfraus for Fascism. Fucking Ku Klux Karens anyway.

Illuminostro,

Cunts for Chaos.

twisted28,

Guns for Christ

DrSleepless,

Boobs for Boorish Behaviour?

HerbalGamer,
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Ovaries for Oppression?

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

Ku Klux Karens

I love that so much, but tongue twister and a half…

girlfreddy,

The insatiable need for power and wealth has warped these people beyond understanding.

Morality isn’t a term they personally understand, instead preferring to force/enforce a sick version of it on everyone else.

I hope they face every possible consequence of their actions, including poverty and jail.

tastysnacks,

Not everybody can be an atheist. When they ask where you morals come from if not from Jesus, its because they don’t have any. Some people really need Jesus.

billy_bollocks,

This. Some people need a book and a bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites to tell them to be a good person.

hglman,

That’s fine, but let’s not wrap those moral guide lines in fantasy nonsense.

SuddenDownpour,

I’ve met plenty of people who claimed their morals came from Jesus and were still assholes. I’ve also met plenty of people who claimed their morals came from Jesus, and still continued to be good persons once they lost their faith.

“My morals come from Jesus” is always a rationalization: for some of their hateful behavior, for others because they’re acting morally well out of instinct, but have been indoctrinated into attributing their behavior to religion.

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