Award-winning LGBTQ weblog Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters reviews that whereas Rubio fired off excuse after excuse in response to CNN questions on background checks and weapons bans following Uvalde, Rubio did fireplace off a letter complaining a couple of Drag Queen Story Hour being held for the youngsters of U.S. service members at a navy base in Germany.
“These inappropriate occasions are extraordinarily divisive at residence for good cause; in all circumstances, they place younger kids in shut proximity with adults who’re deliberately and explicitly sexualized,” the letter offensively claimed. However story hours are precisely that: story hours.
In the meantime, Rubio spews these bigoted lies as his political social gathering is obsessive about kids’s genitalia. “Are you gonna undergo the process?” Missouri state senator Elaine Gannon requested a 14-year-old trans little one throughout a listening to final month, Pink Information reported. “You’re asking a 14-year-old on public report about genitals and if individuals may see that,” the kid’s outraged mom responded.
Rubio final week touted getting the story hour canceled, after condemning so-called “cancel tradition” in a March tweet. Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters known as Rubio’s whole act “nonsense.”
“The occasion has nothing to do with intercourse. It teaches kids the significance of literacy and respecting variations. Dad and mom usually attend the occasion with their children. However extra to the purpose, it’s reasonably self-serving and extremely despicable for Rubio to say that Drag Queen Story is harmful to kids whereas not supporting frequent sense gun laws even after a classroom of youngsters and adults had been the victims of gun violence.”
Rubio has additionally turned his again on the immigrant communities he as soon as claimed he championed. The Florida Immigrant Coalition Votes (FLIC Votes) in April started operating Spanish-language advertisements that includes a pro-immigrant message that Rubio touted practically a decade in the past. The wording is from a voicemail left by Rubio’s late mom.
“That is recommendation from the one that loves you most on this planet,” mentioned a voice portraying the late Oriales García Rubio. “Please don’t mess with the immigrants. They’re human beings similar to us, and so they got here to the nation for a similar causes that we got here: to work, to enhance their lives. Don’t damage them. Poor little ones.” Rubio performed the message for a reporter in 2013. He was one of many eight authors of the Senate’s complete immigration reform bundle on the time, which he later disowned.
“That is Rubio’s first management audition, his likelihood to indicate Republicans that he’s greater than a compelling speaker with boyish attractiveness,” TIME journal reported on the time. He failed the audition way back.
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