RFK Jr. Supportive Of LGBT Agenda
Despite the best efforts of the Democratic National Committee, President Joe Biden appears to have some fairly substantial intraparty competition in his bid for re-election.
The DNC has rejected calls to allow the president’s Democratic rivals to debate him, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is nonetheless making his case through various speeches and media appearances. His support is deep into double-digit territory in most polls and his message — particularly on issues related to vaccines and global affairs — is even resonating among some Republican voters.
Social conservatives, however, have reason to be skeptical of his platform, as evidenced by his remarks during a recent town hall event.
One member of the audience pressed Kennedy on his initial acceptance of an invitation to address Moms for Liberty, an advocacy group defending parental rights, which is described by the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center as an “extremist group. “
Although his campaign signaled that he would be willing to speak in front of the conservative group, he has since rejected the invitation and used his form last week to denigrate the coalition.
Kennedy made it clear that he “didn’t speak at the group,” going on to blame “somebody on [his] staff that accepted the invitation” without his approval.
The audience member criticized him for placing the onus on a staffer before going on to offer a biased view of the organization’s principles — particularly in regard to LGBT-themed education in public schools.
“When I found out that was [Moms for Liberty’s] position, I declined to go,” Kennedy declared, essentially conceding the critic’s depiction of the group.
He went on to outline a political position that apparently places the promotion of a controversial LGBT agenda in classrooms above the rights of parents to have a role in their children’s education.
”There will be nobody in the Oval Office who is more supportive of LGBTQ rights than I am,” he said, harkening back to the role he played in his uncle Ted Kennedy’s failed 1980 presidential campaign.
Kennedy described it as “the first political, presidential campaign that ever courted the gay vote,” vowing to follow the same trajectory in his own White House bid.
To his credit, however, he declined to comply with the audience member’s demand that he “denounce” Moms for Liberty, asserting instead: “I don’t agree with anybody who says that we shouldn’t respect gay rights, or anybody else’s rights.”
