Marlene Pray of Pennsylvania runs Doylestown’s “Rainbow Room,” a Planned Parenthood-funded gathering of children between the ages of 12 and 21. At an April 20 special meeting of the Central Bucks School Board, Pray was the first speaker. She was joining a chorus of voices that denounced the school board’s recent actions.

The Central Bucks School Board had in recent months voted to bar age-inappropriate books from its curricula, require teachers to inform parents if a child wants to change his or her name, require single-sex sexual education classes, and bar teachers from using classroom decorations for politicking — such as by flying pride flags and the like.