Lincoln, California City Councilwoman Holly Andreatta told a group of high school conservatives that childhood trauma turned her daughter into a lesbian. When video of her comments — began circulating online, Andreatta first said video of her talk had been deceptively edited and then apologized for her comment, claiming she doesn’t actually believe what she said in the video.

“My oldest daughter had a lot of trauma as a child,” Andreatta said at the first meeting of Twelve Bridges High School’s new ‘Club America,” a chapter of Turning Point USA, an organization that encourages its members to harass progressive educators. “Something really terrible happened to her when she was young that I would hope would never happen to any other child. And as a result of it, she’s a lesbian. She’s gay. She’s married to a woman.”

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Andreatta then said she believes marriage is only between a man and a woman and also agrees with the Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality, but added that she experiences “internal conflict” about this because she loves her daughter.

In other comments, Andreatta called anti-racism leader Martin Luther King Jr. “a Marxist” whose civil rights victories “were not really helpful.”

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As videos of Andreatta’s comments spread online, Andreatta wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post, that videos of her comments had been altered by artificial intelligence. She wrote, “I am the same person I have always been, kind, principled, inclusive and committed to respectful dialogue. A manipulated video does not change the truth.”

In a public Facebook post pubished last Sunday, Andreatta wrote, “I want to publicly apologize to my daughter. Her story is hers alone, and I should not have shared personal details about her trauma,” adding, “To be absolutely clear: I did not say that trauma causes homosexuality. I never said that, nor would I ever say that or think that. I was referring to a very specific personal experience.”

Students and families attended the Western Placer Unified School District Board meeting last Tuesday to call for the club’s disbandment and for Andreatta’s censure by fellow council members.

After her comments circulated online, the club’s student-president Garrett Culp said he and his group’s members have been “ruthlessly attacked online, called horrible names, [and] harassed at school,” CBS News reported.

The school’s sophomore class president, Eliot Armstrong, is also spearheading a signature drive to ban the club from the school, though a school district spokesperson said the drive won’t compel the district to disband the club.

High school students in Lincoln are petitioning to disband a new Club America chapter at Twelve Bridges HS after Mayor Holly Andreatta spoke at its inaugural meeting and made remarks many students viewed as racist, homophobic, historically inaccurate, & inflammatory.

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Source: LGBTQ Nation