Tina Descovich

Everything in me knew what the truth was.

And yet I was going to lose this job that I loved and I was impacting families and children and changing lives.

I marched right in there, voted against the mask mandate, and I lost my reelection, just like he said it was going to happen.

Because there's consequences for standing for truth.

Every single mom and dad in this room that has stood for truth knows those consequences well, too.

That's why you're here.

Whether you're saying that boys shouldn't be in girls' sports, whether you're saying there's only two sexes, whether you're saying that there shouldn't be pornography in schools, none of this is controversial.

But the attacks and the threats that you are under from that just keeps growing exponentially.

Why?

Because truth is under attack, not just in America, but around the world.

And you guys should be so proud of yourselves for standing in truth, even when there's consequences.

The one thing I learned serving on school board and going through COVID and going through the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre is that when fear is present, no one can hear truth.

When they are so afraid that they're coming up to the podium and they're crying and they have all this fear, they can't hear you.

They can't listen.

We have to shake off the shackles of fear.

And we have got to teach those around us that we love and in our communities and our friends and our neighbors to shake off fear and stand for truth or we are going to lose Western civilization as a whole.

So some of these consequences, let's talk about those for a second.

Because so I'm looking around this room and I'm seeing some of you and I'm thinking of the consequences.

You have lost family.

You have lost friends.