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.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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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.