PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney denounced the views of Moms for Liberty on Thursday as the group’s three-day convention kicked off in Center City.
“I want to be very clear that as a welcoming and inclusive City, we find this group’s beliefs and values problematic,” Kenney said in a statement, calling the group’s “attempts to disregard history, ban books, and silence conversations about race, gender, and sexuality ... harmful to youth.”
Kenney also stressed the city’s response would respect both demonstrators’ and convention participants’ rights to free speech, “and protect the constitutional rights of all individuals without regard to the views expressed by any group.”
