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(LifeSiteNews) – Former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI) has thrown her support behind Florida’s pro-family Parental Rights in Education Bill, excoriating the left-wing line on “indoctrinating woke sexual values” in schools.
Gabbard, a 2020 presidential candidate, took to Twitter on Monday to voice support for the bill, which protects children in kindergarten through the third grade from confusing discussions around sexuality and gender in school classrooms, and suggested that the legislation should have gone much further.
When I first heard about Florida’s Parental Rights bill, I was shocked it only protects children K-3. Third grade? How about 12th grade—or not at all. Meanwhile, schools are failing: 1 in 4 graduates are functionally illiterate. Parents should raise their kids, not the government pic.twitter.com/CycF8cKRh3
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) April 4, 2022
First recognizing that “parental rights are under attack all across the country,” Gabbard argued that the government has been attempting to “usurp parents’ right and responsibility to raise their own children.”
Accordingly, the Florida legislation is worthy of support, she said, since it “very simply bans government and government schools
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