Jessica Alexander, a right-wing city councilwoman in Temecula, California, stormed off the dais at a city meeting over a proclamation of Pride Month — but not before ranting about how it would expose children to pedophiles, reported the Temecula Press Enterprise.
"Alexander, an outspoken Christian conservative, walked off the council dais during a recent meeting as the mayor began to read a proclamation honoring LGBTQ Pride Month in the city," reported Jeff Horseman. "Before she left, Alexander decried what she described as sexually explicit LGBTQ flags, including one she said promotes pedophilia. The proclamation, declared by the city’s Race, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Commission and presented to high school clubs supporting LGBTQ rights, is inappropriately aimed at children, said Alexander, who opposes the seven-member commission and criticized the Temecula City Council’s Pride Month proclamation in 2022."
“Where is your moral and ethical line for each one of you as a city council member?” she said. “If you don’t oppose this proclamation being given to minors, we are celebrating and encouraging sexual activity and giving them (a) sexual credit card with no limit. You are encouraging them to expose them to all sexual possibilities and exposing them to predators.”
She complained that there are now around 50 different Pride flags for subgroups in the community, and particularly claimed that the Progress Pride Flag promotes pedophilia — which has been debunked repeatedly.
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Alexander's comments were condemned by Equality California, which said her words “add fuel to the fire of anti-LGBTQ+ hatred and trafficked in long-tired tropes and outright misinformation,” and by Temecula Mayor Zak Schwank, who told the Press Enterprise, “It’s disappointing to see one of our council member representatives refusing to recognize a valued and important group within our community ... More than anything else, behavior like that from the dais continues to divide this community in ways that are not conducive towards building a better Temecula.”
City council officials around the country have often found themselves in hate controversies. Last year, a former Louisiana police chief elected to the city council of Abbeville was caught on tape spewing anti-gay slurs in a bar fight.
