Last week's cartoon made a reference to "Moms for Liberty," one of those right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+ groups ardently devoted to restricting the liberties of other people.
Now it seems that "Moms for Liberty" co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her husband Christian allegedly had a long-term three-way relationship with another woman, which I'm sure wasn't L, G, B, T, Q, or + in any way, shape or form.
This may be a very obscure news story — aside from the fact that her husband is the chair of the Florida Republican Party — but it's crude, salacious, and utterly without redeeming social value, making it perfect fodder for a cartoon.
To make this cartoon even more obscure, your humble scribbler riffed on a tweet you probably never saw from Mrs. Ziegler. Back in April, Bridget posted a picture of herself wearing a transphobic t-shirt that read "Real Women - Aren't Men -". So here it is.
The national hate group she co-founded is devoted to disrespecting transgender persons, censoring books, banning drag shows, and grooming kids to be spiteful little bullies and scolds like herself. And occasionally endorsing Hitler quotations in their newsletter. It's all in the name of Christian morality, of course.
To nobody's surprise, the current sordid episode sullying the Zieglers' reputation came to light when the Other Woman came forward accusing Christian of showing up without Bridget one day when they were supposed to have one of their ménages à trois and sexually assaulting her.
As for that quoting Hitler business (it was an Indiana chapter who cited “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future,” in its newsletter), Christian now gets to exercise the advice he gave the group:
“Never apologize. Ever,” Christian Ziegler told members of the group during a training session covered by NBC News at Moms For Liberty’s national conference in June. “This is my view. Other people have different views on this. I think apologizing makes you weak.”
So now, facing calls to resign as chair of the Florida GOP,
Zeigler denied the allegations of sexual assault but admitted to police that he had had sex with the woman on the date in question. In a statement released to his fellow Florida Republicans over the weekend, Ziegler wrote that “we have a country to save and I am not going to let false allegations of a crime put that mission on the bench as I wait for this process to wrap up.”
Pull up a chair, folks, and pass the popcorn.
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