(LifeSiteNews) — According to training materials obtained by The Daily Wire, the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee (MPTC), which trains over 20,000 police officers across the state, listed the parental rights group Moms for Liberty as a “hate group” along with the Marxist extremist group Antifa and neo-Nazi organizations.
Screenshots shared with the conservative outlet show Moms for Liberty listed as an “anti-government extremist group,” the designation given to them by the progressive political outlet Southern Poverty Law Center in 2023. The screenshots show MPTC putting the group’s stated agenda of defending parental rights in mocking quotation marks to indicate insincerity. It isn’t just Moms for Liberty – groups like Katy Faust’s children’s rights organization Them Before Us has also been designated a “hate group” by the SPLC:
Hanging out with the other cool kids on the @splcenter hate map.
This is a Who’s Who of people and organizations rejecting elite control, cultural tyranny and child victimization.
A badge of honor. pic.twitter.com/SzyEQKZZI8
— Katy Faust (@Advo_Katy) August 1, 2025
In fact, this characterization of Moms for Liberty is a deliberate demonization and an overt deceit. The parental right group seeks to organize concerned mothers and fathers who wish to push back against the queering and sexualization of American public education. “We are dedicated to fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government,” their website reads.
In short, Moms for Liberty is utilizing the democratic process to influence outcomes. They are labeled as a “hate group” and “extremist” by those who support the sexual revolution’s hijacking of American public education. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court recently endorsed the position on parental rights held by Moms for Liberty, a fact that could ostensibly place the Court in the “Hate Groups” category of Massachusetts police training.
In fact, the MPTC material claimed that Moms for Liberty “members use parents’ rights as a vehicle to attack public education and make schools less welcoming for minority and [so-called] LGBTQ+ students” – a position explicitly repudiated by the Supreme Court in June. As The Christian Post reported, the “training also appeared to lump Moms for Liberty in with the radical-left wing group Antifa, which was involved with many of the riots that led to widespread property damage in the wake of George Floyd’s death.”
Moms for Liberty began as a small parental rights organization in Florida in 2021, but exploded into a 300-chapter juggernaut with over 130,000 members, campaigning successfully to put parental rights advocates on school boards and pass policies removing sexually explicit materials for schools. This is what the MPTC refers to as making schools “less welcoming” for “LGBTQ+ students.”
“Moms for Liberty is here to show up at school board meetings, speak out against curriculum, failing schools, inappropriate books maybe in your public school library,” Tina Descovich, a mother of five who co-founded Moms for Liberty, told The Daily Wire. “Antifa is burning down whole cities and parts of cities and rioting in the streets. These two are not equivalent. We want parents to have the ability to opt out of sexualized books or curriculum, things that don’t align with their religious beliefs as the Supreme Court just affirmed in their most recent ruling in the Montgomery County, Maryland case.”
Descovich says that Moms for Liberty members in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have asked the police why their state would target them with these unfounded smears. “You know, we have parental rights that were given to us by God,” she stated. “We just want parents to be the driving factor in a child’s education.” As The Christian Post noted: “Earlier this year, a state audit found the MPTC’s training curriculum to be ‘inadequate’ and that the committee engaged in poor record-keeping, according to a local CBS affiliate.”
Moms for Liberty has been singled out because they have successfully engaged with the democratic process and won a series of high-profile victories. Consequently, progressive activists within law enforcement have used their influence – with assistance from activist organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center – to dub these parents “extremists” and a “hate group” on par with genuine rioters, racists, and revolutionaries. This is precisely why conservatives who take political power must work to reform the institutions they govern and root out this anti-Christian bigotry.
