July 11, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions (click here) reportedly will be delivering a speech to the
anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom at 5.30 PM PDT today, July 11,
at ADF’s Summit on Religious Liberty in California.
The event is closed to the press, and no venue information has been released.
Civil rights and Department of Justice reporter at Buzzfeed Dominic Holden Tweeted about the scheduled remarks. According to his Twitter feed, he asked the DOJ why Sessions was speaking at this anti-LGBT event and whether it signaled a new Department of Justice position in court. The DOJ declined to comment....
These are Sessions' cronies. I don't know about Sessions' speaking to White Supremacists, but, he was in California yesterday.
He wants to revitalize D.A.R.E. I didn't know it was ever gone off the radar. (click here)
The first Muslims graduated from D.A.R.E. I guess. I have a difficult time believing there were no other Muslims that graduated from D.A.R.E. But, if this is the first, then congratulations for realizing there have existed Muslim students in the USA for decades.
Launched in 1983, (click here) D.A.R.E. is a comprehensive K-12 education program taught in thousands of schools in America and 52 other countries. D.A.R.E. curricula address drugs, violence, bullying, internet safety, and other high risk circumstances that today are too often a part of students’ lives.
The opioid epidemic is a safe place for AG Sessions to focus given the issues facing the White House.