Gay student rips into hate group co-founder to her face: “You deserve to be fired”

Youth activist Zander Moricz – a 2022 LGBTQ Nation Hero of the Year – made an epic speech against Moms for Liberty co-founder and Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler in which he explained to her face why he believes she is awful at her job.

Calls for Ziegler’s resignation from the school board have mounted in the wake of rape allegations against her husband, Florida GOP chair Christian Ziegler. Bridget Ziegler has since admitted that she, her husband, and her husband’s accuser engaged in a consensual threesome over a year ago. The admission angered many due to Ziegler’s vendetta against LGBTQ+ issues being taught in schools.

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Wearing a sweatshirt stating, You Give Me The Ick, Moricz opened his speech by speaking directly to Bridget Ziegler and telling her their first interaction was when she retweeted a hate article about him while he was still a Sarasota County student. “You are a reminder that some people view politics as a service to others while some view it as an opportunity for themselves,” he said.

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He called her out for using her position on the board to spend public funds that could have gone to raising teacher salaries to “change our district lines for political gain, remove books from schools, target trans and queer children, erase Black history, and elevate your political career – all while sending your children to private schools because you don’t believe in the public school system that you’ve been leading.”

He then posed a question to the public: Why is Ziegler’s threesome more of a scandal than the way she has used public funds to “harm our teachers and our students for her gain”?

Moricz said Zielger does not deserve to be on the school board but also does not deserve to be removed from it because of her threesome.

“That defeats the lesson we’ve been trying to teach you,” he continued, “which is that a politician’s job is to serve their community, not to police personal lives.”

He then emphasized his point once again: “Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job, not because you had sex with a woman.”

The audience then erupted in laughter.

Moricz first drew media attention in 2022 when his high school principal told the out senior class president of Pine View School for the Gifted in Osprey, Florida that any mention of LGBTQ+ issues, advocacy, or his sexual orientation in his valedictorian speech to graduating seniors would result in his microphone being silenced.

Instead, Moricz delivered a thinly-veiled graduation speech using his curly hair as an analogy for his sexual identity. The speech went viral after it was posted on YouTube.

Moricz was then invited to deliver his original speech before the Department of Education. Additionally, he was one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law, and in March 2022, organized a headline-making student walkout.

Ziegler, on the other hand, championed Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill and is a leader in the so-called “parent’s rights” movement against LGBTQ+ youth.

Last week, the school board voted 4-1 that Ziegler should voluntarily step down (the dissenting vote was her own). The board cannot, however, force her to do so; only Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has that power.