The co-founder of the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group Moms for Liberty seems to have resigned from her most recent position in the wake of rape allegations against her husband and her own involvement in a same-sex sex scandal.

Since August 2022, Bridget Ziegler has served as the director of the School Board Leadership Program at the Leadership Institute, an organization that trains conservative activists. Ziegler is no longer listed in the role on the website, and someone new appears to have been named in her place. Bridget Ziegler is also facing calls for her to resign from the Sarasota School Board.

At the same time, the Florida GOP appears to be working to expel or censure Bridget Ziegler’s husband, Christian Ziegler, from his role as chairman of the state’s Republican party. Gov. Ron DeSantis ® has called on Christian Ziegler to resign, but he has refused, maintaining that the rape allegations against him are false.

  • SeaJ
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    1341 year ago

    Every accusation is a confession with these people.

  • ArugulaZ
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    871 year ago

    So long, Hausfraus for Fascism. Fucking Ku Klux Karens anyway.

  • @[email protected]
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    581 year ago

    The insatiable need for power and wealth has warped these people beyond understanding.

    Morality isn’t a term they personally understand, instead preferring to force/enforce a sick version of it on everyone else.

    I hope they face every possible consequence of their actions, including poverty and jail.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      Not everybody can be an atheist. When they ask where you morals come from if not from Jesus, its because they don’t have any. Some people really need Jesus.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        This. Some people need a book and a bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites to tell them to be a good person.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        I’ve met plenty of people who claimed their morals came from Jesus and were still assholes. I’ve also met plenty of people who claimed their morals came from Jesus, and still continued to be good persons once they lost their faith.

        “My morals come from Jesus” is always a rationalization: for some of their hateful behavior, for others because they’re acting morally well out of instinct, but have been indoctrinated into attributing their behavior to religion.

  • @[email protected]
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    501 year ago

    The co-founder of the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group…

    Bridget Ziegler has since admitted to detectives that she, her husband, and her husband’s accuser were involved in a consensual sexual encounter over a year ago.

    You honestly can’t make this stuff up with hate group leaders. It happens all the time!

    But it really does say a lot about the state of her community, if coming out gay is so hard that she needs to be anti-gay as a cover.

    • @meco03211
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      421 year ago

      The only moral gay orgies are my gay orgies!

    • Hegar
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      if coming out gay is so hard that she needs to be anti-gay as a cover.

      I don’t think that’s what’s going on.

      It sounds like her and her rapist husband had a threesome and arranged for another. Then she pulled out and the other woman said if she’s out I’m out too. Then the husband ran into the other woman and raped her.

      Certainly most people who rabidly hate something are hating something in themselves, but it sounds to me like her rapist husband pressured her into a threesome she wasn’t into.

      • @Bristlecone
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        191 year ago

        Well, I don’t want to sound insensitive but that’s what happens when you marry conservatives

        • @rhadamanth_nemes
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          91 year ago

          These motherfuckers are reading Handmaid’s Tale and taking policy notes.

        • *Tagger*
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          01 year ago

          It’s a shame you failed so badly at not sounding insensitive.

  • @[email protected]
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    281 year ago

    It’s always entertaining to see that the loudest voices against something in a room are usually the ones actually partaking in what they’re bitching about.

    “rules for thee, not for me” to a whole new level.

    • ZeroTemp
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      171 year ago

      It would be down right hilarious if it didn’t keep happening all the time.

  • @yesman
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    271 year ago

    It makes perfect sense that religious conservatives who are also queer would be so hostile to the LGBT+ community. From their perspective, same sex attractions, gender dysphoria, or whatever are natural urges to be suppressed like anger, greed, or lazyness. Open queer people, to them, seem like flaunting criminals; getting away with murder.

    Also the projected self-loathing aspect that comes along with suppressing any urge or behavior. Have you ever noticed that the most vocal anti-smoking advocates are invariably ex-smokers?

    • @madcaesar
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      131 year ago

      It’s probably even stupider than that. They probably think, yea I’m gay, but I’m one of the good ones I’d never rape children. These people are dumb, bitter and entirely too confident in their abilities.

  • @[email protected]
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    251 year ago

    Why is literally every single Republican such a ghoul? Why are they all rapists and pedophiles and cheaters and hypocrites?

    • @CyberDine
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      111 year ago

      1 of 2 political parties in America is basically stating “we do not care how morally bankrupt you are, if you always tow the party line, we will give you power and cover.”

      Your average Joe, unless they are an idiot, already sees the GOP for what it is and would stay away. But for a ghoul, the GOP seems like a great place to have certain proclivities and then the power and shield to ensure you can’t be prosecuted.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because your choice of news sources selects for a certain political group.

      Remember that Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky alleged behaviour by Bill Clinton that would easily be considered sexual assault if not rape nowadays; Anthony Weiner went to prison for sexting a 15-year old. There is ton more examples of Democratic politicians that meet the same (low) standard of evidence that is shown in this article, in fact they probably mostly exist in local news articles.

  • @linearchaos
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    141 year ago

    Sounds like she’s a little more into liberty than they are.

  • arquebus_x
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    131 year ago

    I just love how the ( R ) got translated into the Registered symbol.

    …Governor Ron DeSantis (registered trademark)…

    • TheCrispyDud
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      101 year ago

      Well I’m sure he’s just a front and that someone owns him so it makes sense in a way.

    • NickwithaC
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      61 year ago

      Every accusation is a confession.

  • Ooops
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    81 year ago

    Just a purely coincidental singular case of an anti-LGBTQ+ leading zealot showing it’s all projection… again for the …who does even still keep track?.. time.

  • @Octavio
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    61 year ago

    This is the kind of stuff you see on a Netflix series and think, “OK they’ve really jumped the shark this time.”

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    41 year ago

    Pics or it didn’t happen.

    Come on it would be so cool to watch all three hate fuck each other.