Supporters of a recent Pride parade in New York City say those in the crowd who chanted “We’re coming for your children” were taken out of context, even if the phrase has been used for years.
Regardless of how it was used, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told a crowd in New Hampshire on Tuesday that as president, he would “stand up for our kids.”
The controversy erupted over the weekend after LGBTQ activists and drag queens marched in New York on Friday as part of an annual parade to commemorate the 1969 riot at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar., The riot is considered the ignition point of the gay rights’ movement.
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A video on social media highlighted an activist shouting, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children!”
NBC News on Tuesday offered a startlingly fawning report suggesting that the complaints from conservatives that the parade was evidence of a grooming effort by LGBTQ activists were overblown.
“The ‘coming for your children’ chant has been used for years at Pride events, according to longtime march attendees and gay rights activists, who said it’s one of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people,” NBC reported. “And in this case, they said, right-wing activists are jumping on a single video to weaponize an out-of-context remark to further stigmatize the queer community.”
“According to multiple Drag March regulars, the ‘coming for your children’ variation has been used before,” NBC continued. “Last year, … people at the Drag March chanted, ‘Ten percent is not enough: Groom! Groom! Groom!’”
NBC somehow thought it helped make the4 case for the marchers when it quoted Brian Griffin, identified as the original organizer of the NYC Drag March. Griffin bragged that he was shouted things like “Kill, kill, kill, we’re coming to kill the mayor.”
In response to NBC’s report, DeSantis War Room, the governor’s rapid media response team, tweeted, “According to the media, the chant isn’t the problem. You are the problem, because you noticed it and objected.”
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Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, DeSantis, former President Donald Trump’s chief rival for the 2024 GOP nomination, suggested that chant only confirmed that conservatives were right to push bills to protect kids.
DeSantis was discussing his education reforms in Florida when he talked about the parade. He said he was looking at it as a father of three young children as well as a potential president.
“I don’t know when this started, where the kids are now the target of a lot of this stuff. But I just think it’s fundamentally wrong,” he said. He then brought up the parade and the chant.
“Let me tell you this. … It’s a free country, right? I’m just kinda like I just mind my own business. “But you start coming for our kids? We’ve got problems. And we are gonna stand up for our kids.”
The governor went on to recall the passage of the Parental Rights in Education law, the efforts to focus on education basics instead the LGBTQ agenda, the battle with the Walt Disney Co. over that, and the repercussions for Disney after it objected.
“We don’t subcontract leadership out to woke companies in California,” said DeSantis. “We stand for parents and we stand for kids.”
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