Across red states in the US Republicans are fighting to pass all
sorts of anti LGBTQ legislation and the Log Cabin Republicans,
who are notorious for being part of that community,
who end up supporting the right wing, they really know what to do.
The organization has actually provided some cover for Florida's so
called don't say gay bill.
But now they're noticing all these other bills and
they're like, it turns out the party really hates us and
we don't know what to do because we really like these tax cuts.
So let me give you the details, Charles Moran,
he's the president of the Log Cabin Republicans.
He recently spoke to the Washington Post about this wave of discriminatory
legislation and he said every one of these bills are different in each state,
and some of them are truly dangerous.
Some of them are actually bad.
Some of them, we are going to come out and oppose.
He also says, quote, I was not prepared to do this, this year.
I'm having to rapidly build a legislative analysis team,
to really go through and identify the states that have these bills.
It's tough, right?
It's tough when you support a party that doesn't believe in
your right to exist because of your sexual identity.
>> Okay. [CROSSTALK]
>> But those tax cuts, i'm I right?
>> Yeah. >> Those tax cuts.
>> So, I have a theory on why they're beginning to flip, and
it has nothing do with policy.
Look, guys like Charles Moran are paid to be Uncle Toms,
that's in the LGBTQ context, if you're saying, you can't say that junk,
because you're not part of the LGBTQ community, so
you can't accuse him of that, you're wrong, I can, and I just did it, okay?
He's paid to sell out his own.
>> Yep. >> And so
he's a despicable human being who didn't mind everyone else being discriminated
against, and I'm sure he thought, no, no, no, The Tepublicans will be good to me
when I'm the last one, I'll be the good one, okay?
But now all of a sudden, he's like golly gee,
I just discovered there's gambling in this establishment.
Okay, you guys are anti gay I never knew that,
as I was stuffing the money into my pockets while selling all of you out.
[CROSSTALK] >> I mean look, the right wing in America
has been defaming gay couples as pedophiles for as long as I can remember.
I mean what was the line of attack, especially like in 2008,
when California was trying to legalize same sex marriage and the anti same sex
marriage campaign came out with their disgusting defamatory campaign?
What did they say?
Well, if we legalize same sex marriage, what's next?
Are we gonna be having sex with animals?
Is that what we're gonna do?
That's what they would do.
That's who the right wing is, and I don't believe for a second,
that Moran is such a moron that he was oblivious to all of that.
But, there are some members of the gay community who identify more closely with
the right wing, because, they like all the financial benefits that might come with
that, because they thought that the right wing had moved away from hating on gay
couples and was just focusing on the trans community.
>> Yes, that's right.
They're like, we'll just throw them under the bus.
>> Right. >> Who cares?
It used to be us, but now, it's them instead of, identifying with them and
they're part of the LGBTQ community, we'll just sell them out for tax cuts, right?
>> Yeah. Peter Field, Dave Rubin,
I can go on and on.
By the way, Dave Rubin, all those people you backed,
all of a sudden now criticizing you, when you're going to do adoptions and
golly gee, I found out I'm [CROSSTALK] >> Not adoptions,
he's gonna have two children through a surrogate.
>> Through a surrogate?
Okay, and look, I'm in favor of that.
How about your right wing buddies?
They won't bake you cakes, now they're attacking your family,
but the money, the money, Dave right?
And Charles Moran, so my theory is, a very rich gay Republican was like,
this is getting a little close to home, okay?
I don't know who it is, but Sten sent a note and it checked the Charles Moran,
and said, hey Moran, I'm now paying you to turn around, okay?
So, yeah, yeah, tax cuts, give me the money, give me the money, okay?
But I'm now worried that these guys are gonna come for me.
So that's my theory on why Moran turned around.
>> And Moran likes to defend Florida's don't say gay,
bill because he's like, we worked really hard and
we did away with the provisions in that legislation that we didn't like.
So it's actually totally fine, it's totally a parent's rights issue.
It's not about being anti gay.
But Francesca Fiorentini made a point on old school last night, that I loved,
and, it helped to crystallize what the problem with that legislation is or
now that law is, because remember, they keep arguing that,
it only applies to students up to the third grade.
But think about the kind of assignments you do in that age group when you're
in school.
In fact, Francesca explains in this next clip, let's watch.
>> Parental rights, I mean, it is crazy anyway.
Effectively, I mean, the law makes no sense,
obviously because we all know under third grade, who's talking about sex.
>> Nobody.
>> These are states where they also like their equivalent of, sex ed is like,
then a stork comes and drops a little knapsack, and then Jesus rides in and,
that's their version, and the first time I don't know I had sex,
I was like fifth grade, and then it was like nothing until 12th, and
everyone was like what the hell, what are we doing?
We're all sexually active anyways, whatever, that's my experience.
>> [LAUGH] >> But, it is so,
in that case we know they're not actually talking about sex with third graders or
younger, so what is it?
It is actually just a bigoted bill, to silence any discussion of other
sexualities, and that literally includes, cuz, when would they talk about it?
When you're drawing your family, when you're at your little desk and
you're drawing your crayons and you say, this is mommy and this is daddy,
this is daddy, and this is daddy.
No, sorry, we can't do that.
You're not allowed to watch that happens, watch when that happens,
we're going to do stories on that.
>> I thought that was an excellent point by Francesca.
And it provided a specific example that I think everyone can relate to because,
I remember drawing the pictures of my family.
But what is a Florida teacher supposed to do if one student draws a picture of
their family, and they happen to have two moms or two dads and
then other students start asking about it or
other students start bullying that student for having two parents of the same sex.
>> Yeah. >> Can the teacher intervene and
protect the student, that's being bullied?
Can the teacher intervene?
>> No. >> And educate the kids about.
>> No, he can't?
>> No? >> That's right.
>> No? >> So we talked more about it in that
episode, and I said, look, if the teacher doesn't get rid of the picture, or
if he talks about the picture at all, he might be fired.
So, by the way, you can watch the whole episode, if you remember tyt.com/join,
to become a member, if you're on Youtube, we could hit the join button below because
we had a whole conversation about it, but I want to make two more quick points here.
One is, if you're Dave Rubin or your Charles Moran and you've got kids, and
by the way, Dave now lives in Florida, you have to teach your kids
when they go to school, you must deny me, you have to deny my existence.
>> Don't bring me up.
>> Right? Don't tell anyone,
that your parents are who they are, because we're hated in this state, and
you can get your teachers fired, and it can cause a lot of ramifications.
Remember, your parents are so unacceptable, you shouldn't even utter
our existence in school, and you're still in that party, you're disgusting.
Now to the rest of the right wingers, you celebrate this bill, It says,
now I know it's not the technical name of the bill, but
it is what you all colloquially call it, don't say gay, and
then you claim, you're in favor of freedom of speech.
>> [LAUGH] >> The bill that you are most in favor of,
literally blocks people from speaking.
>> About their lived experience and who they are as people.
Yeah. >> Yeah