Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz draws laughs from LGBTQ+ rights advocates with crack about conservative efforts Prevent children from reading About gay penguins.
During a speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s national dinner in Washington, DC, the Democratic vice presidential nominee touted legislation he signed to stop banning “LGBTQ books” from public schools.
“Think about it, in this room: This is what these guys spend all their time focused on,” Walz said Friday night. “Like reading about two male penguins who love each other – that will turn your kids gay, and you should worry about that.”
After the laughter died down, the former high school social studies teacher blasted her Republican rival, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, blasted for calls out Tuesday’s deadly school shooting An unfortunate “fact of life” in Georgia.
“Here I’ll tell you: It’s a fact of life, some people are gay,” Walz said. “But you know what’s not a fact of life? That our children need to be shot in schools. That is not a fact of life.”
A video clip of his remarks went viral on social media, garnering nearly 2 million views by early Saturday afternoon.
On Thursday, Vance said: “I don’t like that this is a fact of life” when discussing the mass shooting in which a teenage boy allegedly Two students and two teachers were killed at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, about 50 miles east of Atlanta.
“But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you understand that our schools are soft targets. And we need to increase security in our schools,” Vance told reporters during a campaign stop in Phoenix.
The accused shooter, Apalachee student Colt Gray, 14, has been charged as an adult with four counts of aggravated murder.
His father, Colin Gray, 54, was also arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree murder and four counts of involuntary manslaughter for allegedly providing his son with an AR 15-style semiautomatic rifle.
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