Lt Col Christopher Schilling: Military officer calls cops on mom who objected to sex posters at child's school
TRENTON NEW JERSEY: A high-ranking US military officer is being castigated for calling the cops on a mom who voiced her concerns about posters about polysexuality and trans identity at her daughter's school. The New Jersey mother Angela Reading revealed on Tucker Carlson Tonight that she was allegedly under scrutiny and being "monitored" by local law enforcement after airing concerns about posters hanging at the entrance of her seven-year-old's school in North Hanover Township.
As part of a school assignment children were asked to create a 'safe space'. The colorful art installations depict some of the contentious phrases and drawings handwritten by kids to make students "feel good and accepted" - including the message "don't be afraid of who you are," and flags associated with sexual orientations and ideologies such as "gender queer, nonbinary, agender, transgender, and pansexual," reported Daily Mail.
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Reading alerted other parents to the poster's content in her since-deleted Facebook post. However, the mother claims cops became privy to her post after being tipped off by Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Schilling who took issue with the post. Reading, in her defense, argued that the unspecified elementary school's hallway display was "perverse," saying "it should be illegal to expose my kids to sexual content," before adding, "I didn't think my seven-year-old was age-appropriate to be exposed to words such as polysexual and pansexual." The story has caused a public outcry, with parents demanding decorated Lt Col Christopher Schilling resign.
Who is Lt Col Christopher Schilling?
Christopher Schilling is a high-ranking US military officer at the New Jersey military base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Reading claimed that despite the post not containing anything illegal nor anything that went against Facebook's terms and services, she was under the police radar. The military official, a senior staffer at the New Jersey military base, took to his Facebook account to say that staffers were working with local police to "monitor the situation" while ensuring "the continued safety of the entire community." The mother claimed Schilling's apparent problems with her post launched a probe online.
The mother said she learned of about the military officers after the administrator of the school Facebook group where she published her complaint, told her that the chief of the North Hanover Police Department, Robert Duff, reached out urging her to remove the post. The irate mother was shocked and pulled out more than one child who was enrolled in the school permanently. "I actually pulled my kids from school the day I found out," the irate mom told Carlson "It was mind-boggling and I was worried for them," she added, questioning why the military would come after her "for simply raising concern about a public poster that is widely available for all to see."
The mom recalled the pressure she felt and later contacted the police chief and "reminded him of the First Amendment," before questioning why a taxpayer-funded police force is using its budget to follow a baseless probe stemming from a harmless social media post. "We shouldn't be utilizing government resources and our positions to pressure individuals to take down Facebook posts," she told Carlson. "I also shared with him the post that he'd already seen." "There was nothing wrong. It didn't violate any law, it didn't violate any Facebook rule whatsoever." Carlson too agreed with the mother and said, "The purpose of the military is to defend us against foreign enemies, not to police Facebook posts." He added that he hopes Schilling is 'removed from his command tonight,' saying the same for Police Chief Duff.