Religious liberty law firm that helped Central Bucks is working with York County schools. Here’s what to know.
PA Family is listed as a state-level group on the website of the Family Research Council — a national Christian conservative advocacy organization that aims to promote “family issues that affect the nation from a biblical worldview.” The Southern Poverty Law Center has, accusing it of a “defamatory campaign to link LGBTQ people with pedophilia” and other anti-LGTBQ myths based on “discredited research and junk science.
It also represented students who sued the Boyertown Area School District in Montgomery and Berks Counties in 2017 over a policygoverning its policy prohibiting “sexualized content” in library books, which the board passed in July 2022.
Leigh Vlasblom, who left the board in December 2023, now works as director of school board leadership programs for the conservative Leadership Institute;The law center didn’t respond to a request for comment Wednesday, including a question about how many Pennsylvania school districts it’s working with.