U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) says people who oppose the DeSantis-approved “Don’t Say Gay” legislation are “ridiculous.”
“To call it ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ which is what people have done, is ridiculous,” Sen. Rubio told reporters Monday. “That’s not what the bill is about at all,” he said, falsely.
“The bill basically says that sexual orientation is just not something schools should be talking to children about, children from kindergarten to 6th grade,” Rubio added, grossly mischaracterizing the legislation.
“Why are schools talking to kids about that? We send our kids to school to learn how to read, how to write, to learn about history, to acquire academic proficiency. We don’t send kids to school so schools can raise our kids. We send them so they can teach them.”
During his failed 2016 White House run Sen. Rubio repeatedly promised he would not run for re-election. He used the Pulse Massacre, one of the worst and deadliest anti-LGBTQ hate crimes, to declare that the community needed him and launched a re-election campaign on the back of those massacred LGBTQ people.
“Raising kids is the job of parents and families, not schools,” Rubio concluded Monday. “That’s what that bill does. Those who call it [‘Don’t Say Gay’ do so] because they do want to turn our schools into a place to raise children. Schools are not about raising children, they are about teaching children.”
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