Montpelier Constitution Center Hijacked by Social Justice Warriors
January 2024
The Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier is Katie Crawford-Lackey, a young lady who doesn’t appear to have expertise in our most prominent of founding documents. Crawford-Lackey possesses undergraduate degrees in history and anthropology as well as a doctorate in Public History. However, “Public Historians” engage in racial reconciliation and social justice. According to the degree description, Public Historians “facilitate interpretation – and reinterpretation - through engagement with their audiences and stakeholders.”
Before arriving at Montpelier, Crawford-Lackey had also co-edited a three-volume book series, Communities and Place: A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States, which focuses on the recent history of nonheteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Ms. Crawford-Lackey did her residency with the National Park Service. Ironically, her book series, Communities and Place is part of the National Park Service’s LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History.
Ms. Crawford-Lackey identifies herself in the preface of the book series as someone who is attracted to “multiple genders”.
The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution declares on its website that “. . . the Center is not a place where original or new research and interpretation of the US Constitution is created. Rather, we see it as our mission to explore the historical context of the Constitution and examine modern Constitutional issues in a non-partisan way.”
If that is so, why would Montpelier, the home of the Father of the Constitution, trust the interpretation of that Constitution with social justice activist and queerologist Dr. Katie Crawford-Lackey?
Our sources very close to Montpelier say people are aware that Madison’s home, with its newest hires, has lost its prestige as a preeminent source on the Constitution.
January 2024
The Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier is Katie Crawford-Lackey, a young lady who doesn’t appear to have expertise in our most prominent of founding documents. Crawford-Lackey possesses undergraduate degrees in history and anthropology as well as a doctorate in Public History. However, “Public Historians” engage in racial reconciliation and social justice. According to the degree description, Public Historians “facilitate interpretation – and reinterpretation - through engagement with their audiences and stakeholders.”
Before arriving at Montpelier, Crawford-Lackey had also co-edited a three-volume book series, Communities and Place: A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States, which focuses on the recent history of nonheteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Ms. Crawford-Lackey did her residency with the National Park Service. Ironically, her book series, Communities and Place is part of the National Park Service’s LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History.
Ms. Crawford-Lackey identifies herself in the preface of the book series as someone who is attracted to “multiple genders”.
The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution declares on its website that “. . . the Center is not a place where original or new research and interpretation of the US Constitution is created. Rather, we see it as our mission to explore the historical context of the Constitution and examine modern Constitutional issues in a non-partisan way.”
If that is so, why would Montpelier, the home of the Father of the Constitution, trust the interpretation of that Constitution with social justice activist and queerologist Dr. Katie Crawford-Lackey?
Our sources very close to Montpelier say people are aware that Madison’s home, with its newest hires, has lost its prestige as a preeminent source on the Constitution.