GOP Campaign Ad Prompts Maine Education Department to Remove Kindergarten LGBT Video Lesson

Maine Gov. Janet Mills attends the Climate Action Summit 2019 at the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New York City on Sept. 23, 2019. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

The Maine Department of Education (DOE) pulled an educational video from its website following a Republican Party advertisement targeting Democratic Gov. Janet Mills that focused on the video’s discussion of sexuality and gender with young children.

Titled “Freedom Holidays,” the video—one of hundreds created during the pandemic for remote teaching—was created for kindergartners and addressed freedoms achieved by the people of the United States, including the LGBT community.