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Mayor defends calling LGBTQ history curriculum ‘an affront to Almighty God’

The mayor of a Jersey Shore town is defending his position of calling a new state requirement to teach LGBTQ history in middle and high schools "an affront to Almighty God.”

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Mayor defends calling LGBTQ history curriculum ‘an affront to Almighty God’

The mayor of a Jersey Shore town is defending his position of calling a new state requirement to teach LGBTQ history in middle and high schools "an affront to Almighty God.”

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