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Janatopoulos will support civil rights, not censorship

Posted 10/26/24

In the race for Minnesota House District 7B, it is imperative voters be able to listen through the soundbites and dog whistles and see through the coded messages and euphemisms. In the race between …

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Janatopoulos will support civil rights, not censorship

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In the race for Minnesota House District 7B, it is imperative voters
be able to listen through the soundbites and dog whistles and see
through the coded messages and euphemisms. In the race between Lorrie
Janatopoulos and Cal Warwas, only one of the candidates is really
interested in protecting our civil liberties and cherished traditional
American rights. That candidate is Janatopoulos.
It is clear and well understood when Warwas uses the terms “parental
rights” and “protecting vulnerable children,” he is using them as
euphemisms for taking away the rights of parents to choose what their
children read.  “Parental rights” hands that decision to the
government to actually limit parental and student First Amendment
rights to free access to a broad range of ideas.  It limits the
ability to express those ideas in schools supported by the taxes of a
broad range of the Minnesota population, not just a select few
interested in narrowing the scope of what thoughts and beliefs are
allowable by law.
Any parent is capable of restricting what printed media their child
has access to and reads in public spaces such as schools and
libraries. That has always been a parent’s right. No parent has the
right to decide that for other parents and other children. And that is
exactly what Warwas, who doesn’t have children in public school and is
not invested in it, is wanting when he talks about “parental rights.”
Janatopoulos will stand for the rights we have always enjoyed as
American parents, not overreach by an expanded nanny government Warwas
wants to bring us.
As a parent and educator, I urge you to see through the verbiage and
into what it really means and vote for keeping your rights intact. On
Nov. 5, vote for Lorrie Janatopoulos for Minnesota House
District 7B.
Adam Byrn Tritt
Chisholm