Alberta school trustee claimed 'the Holy Spirit' told her to post Pride flag, Nazis swastika meme
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"Do it, go for it," is what a Red Deer school trustee says "the Holy Spirit" told her to do before she posted a meme that likens the LGBTQ2S+ community to Nazi Germany.
"Do it, go for it," is what a Red Deer school trustee says "the Holy Spirit" told her to do before she posted a meme that likens the LGBTQ2S+ community to Nazi Germany.
That explanation is part of a new 15-page decision released Tuesday by the board of trustees for Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools.
Monique LaGrange's Aug. 27 post showed a picture of children waving swastika flags above a picture of children waving Pride flags, with the caption "brainwashing is brainwashing."
On Oct. 13, the board concluded that LaGrange violated its policies and ordered her to issue a sincere apology, take sensitivity training and recognize that her post "hurt feelings."
But the trustee insisted "the post is not about the LGBTQ [sic] community" and that the discipline process was "tainted by procedural unfairness and bias," the document states.
"The meme post is about indoctrination through the United Nations which directly correlates to World War II and Nazism; it is about the agenda of the United Nations and Planned Parenthood which is an attempt to sabotage our youths' identities and destinies and hijacks the LGBTQ [sic] community's original mandate," it says of LaGrange's argument.
"The Pride flag is used to silence people; children are being kicked out of school and people are being fired which is antithetical to the trustee's religious beliefs; and that 'cancel culture' is not what is good, lawful, appropriate or democratic."
