LINCOLN- The Protect Nebraska Children Coalition has grown rapidly over the years, and has become a key political player in Nebraska with the help of Gov. Ricketts and several other Nebraska government figures. In the past, the coalition has worked very hard to curb the rise of social and cultural policy changes in schools, including gender identity and LGBTQ issues.

The coalition, with its immense political power and following, stopped the Nebraska Board of Education from adopting optional school health education standards that members of the coalition said "advanced a politically progressive view of gender identity and sexual orientation."

The Protect Nebraska Children PAC has been criticized as a "hate group" and had its members called "right-wing extremists," while proponents of the conservative-dominated PAC called critics "pedophiles" and "Marxists." The group has also argued that teachers willing to adopt new gender identity standards are "grooming" students and robbing them of their innocence.

The Protect Nebraska Children PAC never believed that they would grow to be so influential in the state. Nic Norton, a Kearney lawyer who joined the PAC last year, stated, "The bottom line is this is the definition of grassroots. None of us are professionals. None of us have done anything like this before. And we've had an amazing run as a group because we're united about the notion of keeping our public schools and our private schools--our children--safe."

Katie McClemens, one of the founders of the coalition, shares a similar sentiment. Last year, she announced that the group's main goal was to "protect the health and innocence of children and the fundamental rights of parents to direct the education, health care, and upbringing of their children."

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