Book banner humiliated at Florida school board meeting. She fled without saying a word.

Florida’s Brevard County School Board held their first meeting of the year and the agenda included a challenge to two books: The Kite Runner and Slaughterhouse-Five. But the meeting turned into a challenge for the anti-LGBTQ+ group Moms for Liberty and their supporters.

Actually, only a single supporter of the group showed up. All the other attendees came to oppose the Nazi-style book bans targeting the novels.

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They were the inspiration behind E.M. Forester’s novel “Maurice” and the straight romance in D.H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”

While the group, which started in Florida, quickly rose to prominence nationwide, its fall has also been meteoric: Chapters have quoted Hitler, making fake claims of criminal conduct to police, and one of the founders has been involved in a threesome sex scandal involving her husband and other women.

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Associating with the far-right group has become toxic, and it may have played a role in the recent board meeting. Their lone supporter sat silently in a corner of the room and listened as dozens of opponents spoke before the board, both condemning the idea of banning the books and slamming the group itself.

One opponent sharply compared The Kite Runner‘s depiction of “the growth of the Taliban and its repressive autocracy in the name of religious nationalism” and “the rise of parental rights groups that want to limit what students learn.” Another accused the group of pushing “their ideology on all children.”

After refusing to speak to the board or the press, the woman slunk out of the meeting, humiliated and defeated.

The books were not banned and remain on library shelves.