Ben Shapiro On Gay Marriage - The Onle Scholar Fact Check

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• MARK HAL AND BEN SHAPIRO CLASH OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL—INTER DECIS HAL WS
• PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR IS TRIGGERG THE LATT RIGHT-WG ANTI-LGBTQ+ PANICCONSERVATIV ARE PHG TO ERASE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM PUBLIC LIFE, BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN SCHOOLS, TARGETG DRAG PERFORMANC, AND MORE. THE LATT TARGET: ATTACKG THE PORTRAYAL OF A LBIAN UPLE THE TOY STORY SP-OFF OUT THIS WEEK.BY CALEB ERMAJUNE 16, 2022© WALT DISNEY CO./EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE NSERVATIVE OUTRAGE MACHE HAS PICKED S NEXT TARGET AND ’S ABOUT TO H THEATERS: DISNEY-PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR, THE TOY STORY SP-OFF MOVIE OUT FRIDAY. “DISNEY WORKS TO PH A ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’…PARENTS SHOULD KEEP THAT MD BEFORE CIDG WHETHER TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE ‘LIGHTYEAR,’” TWEETED BEN SHAPIRO, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RIGHT-WG PODST HOSTS. HIS POST CLUD A SCREENSHOT OM THE UPG ANIMATED MOVIE THAT FEATUR TWO LBIAN PARENTS EMBRACG EACH OTHER. “CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS. WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR ADULTS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN,” THE PODSTER NTUED. “THAT THIS MT BE SAID MONSTRAT THAT OUR SOCIETY IS A STATE OF MORAL LLAPSE.”SHAPIRO’S PORTRAYAL OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND RELATNSHIPS AS HERENTLY LEWD OR PORNOGRAPHIC, AND TH, APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, HAS BEE THE NORM AMONG MANY NSERVATIV. OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, THE BIGGT NAM NSERVATIVE MEDIA HAVE RURRECTED AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS, ATTEMPTG TO TRIGGER A MORAL PANIC THAT IS GROWG MORE EXTREME AND MORE WISPREAD WH EACH PASSG WEEK. AS STATE LEGISLATUR TEE UP HUNDREDS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ PROPOSALS THIS YEAR, A STUDY OM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CLARED THAT 2022 ULD BE THE MOST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATIVE YEAR HISTORY, PER USA TODAY. THIS MPAIGN HAS ALSO LATED NSERVATIVE MEDIA; MARCH, FAR-RIGHT PUNDS BEGAN MALIGNG TORS WHO TALK ABOUT GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AS “GROOMERS” WHO SEEK TO PREY ON SCHOOLCHILDREN. THE REVIVAL OF THIS AGE-OLD SMEAR WAS ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RIGHT’S MOST POPULAR PUNDS AND POLICIANS. BUT THE FOC OF THE ATTACKS HAS SCE SHIFTED OM SCHOOLS, EVOLVG TO MUCH BROAR ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ALL PUBLIC SPAC.IN A TOWNHALL LUMN TLED “WHEN A KISS IS NOT JT A KISS,” TALK RAD HOST LARRY O’CONNOR PHED BACK AGAST A PEREZ HILTON TWEET NOTG THAT LIGHTYEAR IS “BANNED MULTIPLE UNTRI OVER A GAY KISS. CARTOONS KISSING, Y’ALL. THAT’S SOME MMENT TO HOMOPHOBIA.”“THIS IS THE STANDARD RPONSE WHENEVER OBJECTNS ARE RAISED TO THE SLOW-MOTN GRADATN OF OUR PRCIPL AND VALU THAT WE TRY TO STILL OUR CHILDREN,” O’CONNOR WROTE. “NOW, DISNEY HAS CID TO WARP S CREDIBILY WH PARENTS EVERYWHERE BY LETTG KNOW THAT EVEN S RTOONS ARE NO LONGER EE OM NTENT THAT MIGHT BE OBJECTNABLE.” LIKEWISE, THE AMERIN CONSERVATIVE’S ROD DREHER NMNED DISNEY’S CISN TO CLU THE LIGHTYEAR SCENE, ACCG THE PANY OF APPEASG A “WOKE MOB THAT WANTS TO SEXUALIZE CHILDREN” AND TRYG TO “TURN POPULAR ART TO CULTURE-WAR PROPAGANDA.” (AT ONE POT, DISNEY HIGHER-UPS REPORTEDLY CID TO REMOVE THE SCENE WHICH THE LBIAN UPLE SHAR A KISS, BUT THEY REVERSED THAT CISN MARCH RPONSE TO EMPLOYEE PROTTS OVER ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN BEG PASSED FLORIDA.)“IT’S GREAT THAT ’S BACK THE FILM,” ACTOR CHRIS EVANS, WHO VOIC THE CHARACTER BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, TOLD VANY FAIR AT LAST WEEK’S WORLD PREMIERE. “I THK ’S A SHAME THAT ’S SUCH A STORY. IT SHOULD BE MORE NORMALIZED, BUT I’M GLAD WE ARE MAKG THOSE STEPS.”IT’S NOT JT MOVI. IN A DIRECT REBUTTAL TO PRI MONTH CELEBRATNS TAKG PLACE ACROSS THE UNTRY, NSERVATIV HAVE ALSO NOUNCED LGBTQ+ SPAC AS NATELY PRAVED AND UNF FOR CHILDREN. “IT’S OK TO JT SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS TO GO TO DRAG SHOWS BEE YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO SEE MEN DRSED UP LIKE WOMEN,” WROTE NSERVATIVE MENTATOR ALLIE BETH STUCKEY A TWEET, ADDG THAT “MEN PRETENDG TO BE WOMEN SHOULD [NOT] BE CELEBRATED, PECIALLY BY CHILDREN.” EVEN REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUMPED ON THE WAR AGAST DRAG SAYG SHE WAS GOG TO PROPOSE A BILL MAKG ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN TO BE EXPOSED TO DRAG PERFORMANC.“RANDOM DRAG QUEENS PUBLIC SPAC POSE EXACTLY 0 THREAT TO CHILDREN,” NATALIE WYNN, A POPULAR TRANS YOUTUBER, REMARKED ON THIS NTROVERSY A TWEET. “THE PEOPLE DON’T RE ABOUT PROTECTG CHILDREN, THEY RE ABOUT PROTECTG ‘CHILDHOOD NOCENCE’—IGNORANCE ROMANTICIZED; A BULLSH FANTASY MA UP BY ADULTS, REFLECTG EVERY ADULT PREJUDICE.”WYNN’S MENT UGHT NSERVATIVE PODSTER MATT WALSH’S ATTENTN, WHO RPONSE TO WYNN WROTE, “THE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS” WHO “ACTIVELY WANT TO RPT YOUR CHILDREN.” WALSH, WHO APPARENTLY BEGAN UTILIZG THE “GROOMER” SMEAR AND PHG FOR LAWS TO BAN DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLG HOURS NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE SOME OF HIS PEERS JOED HIM, WENT ON TO WRE, “THIS IS WHY WE MT OPPOSE THEM WH EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEG, NO MATTER WHAT.” (MIGHT BE WORTH NOTG THAT WALSH, A CATHOLIC, HAS SHOWN FAR LS NCERN AND IRE TOWARD THE LARGT GROOMG SNDAL MORN HISTORY. “THE PEDOPHILE SNDAL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A PEDOPHILE SNDAL. THE VAST MAJORY OF VICTIMS ARE POST-PUBCENT TEENS AND YOUNG MEN,” HE WROTE 2018. “THE REAL PROBLEM THE CHURCH THAT EVERYONE SE AND FEW WILL SAY OUT LOUD: GAY PRITS.”)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIS MPAIGN TO SEEMGLY OSTRACIZE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM SOCIETY ISN’T JT PLAYG OUT BETWEEN NSERVATIVE PUNDS; THERE’S A GROWG LEGAL PH TO DIFY BANS AGAST TALKG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY CLASSROOMS, LIMG TRANS KIDS’ ABILI TO PARTICIPATE SPORTS, AND RECEIVE APPROPRIATE GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN NOTICE TOO; ON WEDNDAY PRINT JOE BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR TO EXPAND ROURC TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS, OM HOG IATIV, TO HEALTH RE, AS WELL AS RCG THE EXPOSURE OF MORS TO NVERSN THERAPY.IN A STATEMENT TO VANY FAIR, AM PALEY, THE CEO OF THE TREVOR PROJECT, A LGBTQ+ YOUTH ADVOCY ANIZATN, WARNED THAT THE ANTI-TRANS NARRATIV BEG PROPAGATED BY NSERVATIV ULD HAVE DIRE NSEQUENC. “THE RURGENCE OF REGRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS THAT SEEK TO SMEAR ADULTS—CLUDG PARENTS, TEACHERS, UNSELORS, AND DOCTORS—WHO AFFIRM AND SUPPORT LGBTQ YOUTH IS CREDIBLY DANGERO,” SAID PALEY, “AND DIVERTS ATTENTN AWAY OM THE CRIL WORK BEG DONE TO PREVENT AND ADDRS ACTUAL CHILD ABE AND SEXUAL ASSLT PERPETRATED AGAST LGBTQ YOUTH.”SOME LGBTQ+ AMERINS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED NEW THREATS SET OFF BY THE RIGHT'S LATT MORAL CSA. AT AN IDAHO PRI EVENT SATURDAY, 31 MEMBERS OF PATRT FRONT, A WHE NATNALIST GROUP, WERE ARRTED FOR NSPIRACY TO RT AFTER THEY TRAVELED TO THE EVENT ARMED WH SHIELDS, METAL POL, AND AT LEAST ONE SMOKE GRENA. THAT SAME DAY, A GROUP OF PROUD BOYS STORMED A CALIFORNIA LIBRARY’S DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND BEGAN HURLG ANTI-TRANS AND ANTIGAY SLURS AT ATTEN. SIARLY, A BAND OF REPORTED “CHRISTIAN FASCISTS” HARASSED AND THREATENED PATRONS OF DRAG QUEEN BNCH DALLAS LAST WEEK. DURG THE CINT, THE GROUP BEGAN DIRECTG “GROOMER” CHANTS AT THE EVENT’S PARTICIPANTS AND GUTS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CALEB ERMA
• BEN SHAPIRO THREATENS BETO O’ROURKE WH GUN VLENCE BEE THE GAYS
• HOW THE WAR ON CRIL RACE THEORY REVIVED ANTI-GAY ACTIVISM SCHOOLS

MARK HAL AND BEN SHAPIRO CLASH OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL—INTER DECIS HAL WS

Ben Shapiro’s views on Gay Marriage have been nsistent that he oppos the legalizatn of gay marriage wh the larger, libertarian posn, that the Government should “not be the marriage bs” at all.

Ben agreed that “homosexualy is not a choice” but stuck to the argument that jt bee somethg is sired, stctually, that wouldn’t make morally permissible.

PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR IS TRIGGERG THE LATT RIGHT-WG ANTI-LGBTQ+ PANICCONSERVATIV ARE PHG TO ERASE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM PUBLIC LIFE, BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN SCHOOLS, TARGETG DRAG PERFORMANC, AND MORE. THE LATT TARGET: ATTACKG THE PORTRAYAL OF A LBIAN UPLE THE TOY STORY SP-OFF OUT THIS WEEK.BY CALEB ERMAJUNE 16, 2022© WALT DISNEY CO./EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE NSERVATIVE OUTRAGE MACHE HAS PICKED S NEXT TARGET AND ’S ABOUT TO H THEATERS: DISNEY-PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR, THE TOY STORY SP-OFF MOVIE OUT FRIDAY. “DISNEY WORKS TO PH A ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’…PARENTS SHOULD KEEP THAT MD BEFORE CIDG WHETHER TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE ‘LIGHTYEAR,’” TWEETED BEN SHAPIRO, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RIGHT-WG PODST HOSTS. HIS POST CLUD A SCREENSHOT OM THE UPG ANIMATED MOVIE THAT FEATUR TWO LBIAN PARENTS EMBRACG EACH OTHER. “CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS. WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR ADULTS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN,” THE PODSTER NTUED. “THAT THIS MT BE SAID MONSTRAT THAT OUR SOCIETY IS A STATE OF MORAL LLAPSE.”SHAPIRO’S PORTRAYAL OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND RELATNSHIPS AS HERENTLY LEWD OR PORNOGRAPHIC, AND TH, APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, HAS BEE THE NORM AMONG MANY NSERVATIV. OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, THE BIGGT NAM NSERVATIVE MEDIA HAVE RURRECTED AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS, ATTEMPTG TO TRIGGER A MORAL PANIC THAT IS GROWG MORE EXTREME AND MORE WISPREAD WH EACH PASSG WEEK. AS STATE LEGISLATUR TEE UP HUNDREDS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ PROPOSALS THIS YEAR, A STUDY OM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CLARED THAT 2022 ULD BE THE MOST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATIVE YEAR HISTORY, PER USA TODAY. THIS MPAIGN HAS ALSO LATED NSERVATIVE MEDIA; MARCH, FAR-RIGHT PUNDS BEGAN MALIGNG TORS WHO TALK ABOUT GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AS “GROOMERS” WHO SEEK TO PREY ON SCHOOLCHILDREN. THE REVIVAL OF THIS AGE-OLD SMEAR WAS ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RIGHT’S MOST POPULAR PUNDS AND POLICIANS. BUT THE FOC OF THE ATTACKS HAS SCE SHIFTED OM SCHOOLS, EVOLVG TO MUCH BROAR ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ALL PUBLIC SPAC.IN A TOWNHALL LUMN TLED “WHEN A KISS IS NOT JT A KISS,” TALK RAD HOST LARRY O’CONNOR PHED BACK AGAST A PEREZ HILTON TWEET NOTG THAT LIGHTYEAR IS “BANNED MULTIPLE UNTRI OVER A GAY KISS. CARTOONS KISSING, Y’ALL. THAT’S SOME MMENT TO HOMOPHOBIA.”“THIS IS THE STANDARD RPONSE WHENEVER OBJECTNS ARE RAISED TO THE SLOW-MOTN GRADATN OF OUR PRCIPL AND VALU THAT WE TRY TO STILL OUR CHILDREN,” O’CONNOR WROTE. “NOW, DISNEY HAS CID TO WARP S CREDIBILY WH PARENTS EVERYWHERE BY LETTG KNOW THAT EVEN S RTOONS ARE NO LONGER EE OM NTENT THAT MIGHT BE OBJECTNABLE.” LIKEWISE, THE AMERIN CONSERVATIVE’S ROD DREHER NMNED DISNEY’S CISN TO CLU THE LIGHTYEAR SCENE, ACCG THE PANY OF APPEASG A “WOKE MOB THAT WANTS TO SEXUALIZE CHILDREN” AND TRYG TO “TURN POPULAR ART TO CULTURE-WAR PROPAGANDA.” (AT ONE POT, DISNEY HIGHER-UPS REPORTEDLY CID TO REMOVE THE SCENE WHICH THE LBIAN UPLE SHAR A KISS, BUT THEY REVERSED THAT CISN MARCH RPONSE TO EMPLOYEE PROTTS OVER ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN BEG PASSED FLORIDA.)“IT’S GREAT THAT ’S BACK THE FILM,” ACTOR CHRIS EVANS, WHO VOIC THE CHARACTER BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, TOLD VANY FAIR AT LAST WEEK’S WORLD PREMIERE. “I THK ’S A SHAME THAT ’S SUCH A STORY. IT SHOULD BE MORE NORMALIZED, BUT I’M GLAD WE ARE MAKG THOSE STEPS.”IT’S NOT JT MOVI. IN A DIRECT REBUTTAL TO PRI MONTH CELEBRATNS TAKG PLACE ACROSS THE UNTRY, NSERVATIV HAVE ALSO NOUNCED LGBTQ+ SPAC AS NATELY PRAVED AND UNF FOR CHILDREN. “IT’S OK TO JT SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS TO GO TO DRAG SHOWS BEE YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO SEE MEN DRSED UP LIKE WOMEN,” WROTE NSERVATIVE MENTATOR ALLIE BETH STUCKEY A TWEET, ADDG THAT “MEN PRETENDG TO BE WOMEN SHOULD [NOT] BE CELEBRATED, PECIALLY BY CHILDREN.” EVEN REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUMPED ON THE WAR AGAST DRAG SAYG SHE WAS GOG TO PROPOSE A BILL MAKG ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN TO BE EXPOSED TO DRAG PERFORMANC.“RANDOM DRAG QUEENS PUBLIC SPAC POSE EXACTLY 0 THREAT TO CHILDREN,” NATALIE WYNN, A POPULAR TRANS YOUTUBER, REMARKED ON THIS NTROVERSY A TWEET. “THE PEOPLE DON’T RE ABOUT PROTECTG CHILDREN, THEY RE ABOUT PROTECTG ‘CHILDHOOD NOCENCE’—IGNORANCE ROMANTICIZED; A BULLSH FANTASY MA UP BY ADULTS, REFLECTG EVERY ADULT PREJUDICE.”WYNN’S MENT UGHT NSERVATIVE PODSTER MATT WALSH’S ATTENTN, WHO RPONSE TO WYNN WROTE, “THE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS” WHO “ACTIVELY WANT TO RPT YOUR CHILDREN.” WALSH, WHO APPARENTLY BEGAN UTILIZG THE “GROOMER” SMEAR AND PHG FOR LAWS TO BAN DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLG HOURS NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE SOME OF HIS PEERS JOED HIM, WENT ON TO WRE, “THIS IS WHY WE MT OPPOSE THEM WH EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEG, NO MATTER WHAT.” (MIGHT BE WORTH NOTG THAT WALSH, A CATHOLIC, HAS SHOWN FAR LS NCERN AND IRE TOWARD THE LARGT GROOMG SNDAL MORN HISTORY. “THE PEDOPHILE SNDAL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A PEDOPHILE SNDAL. THE VAST MAJORY OF VICTIMS ARE POST-PUBCENT TEENS AND YOUNG MEN,” HE WROTE 2018. “THE REAL PROBLEM THE CHURCH THAT EVERYONE SE AND FEW WILL SAY OUT LOUD: GAY PRITS.”)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIS MPAIGN TO SEEMGLY OSTRACIZE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM SOCIETY ISN’T JT PLAYG OUT BETWEEN NSERVATIVE PUNDS; THERE’S A GROWG LEGAL PH TO DIFY BANS AGAST TALKG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY CLASSROOMS, LIMG TRANS KIDS’ ABILI TO PARTICIPATE SPORTS, AND RECEIVE APPROPRIATE GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN NOTICE TOO; ON WEDNDAY PRINT JOE BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR TO EXPAND ROURC TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS, OM HOG IATIV, TO HEALTH RE, AS WELL AS RCG THE EXPOSURE OF MORS TO NVERSN THERAPY.IN A STATEMENT TO VANY FAIR, AM PALEY, THE CEO OF THE TREVOR PROJECT, A LGBTQ+ YOUTH ADVOCY ANIZATN, WARNED THAT THE ANTI-TRANS NARRATIV BEG PROPAGATED BY NSERVATIV ULD HAVE DIRE NSEQUENC. “THE RURGENCE OF REGRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS THAT SEEK TO SMEAR ADULTS—CLUDG PARENTS, TEACHERS, UNSELORS, AND DOCTORS—WHO AFFIRM AND SUPPORT LGBTQ YOUTH IS CREDIBLY DANGERO,” SAID PALEY, “AND DIVERTS ATTENTN AWAY OM THE CRIL WORK BEG DONE TO PREVENT AND ADDRS ACTUAL CHILD ABE AND SEXUAL ASSLT PERPETRATED AGAST LGBTQ YOUTH.”SOME LGBTQ+ AMERINS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED NEW THREATS SET OFF BY THE RIGHT'S LATT MORAL CSA. AT AN IDAHO PRI EVENT SATURDAY, 31 MEMBERS OF PATRT FRONT, A WHE NATNALIST GROUP, WERE ARRTED FOR NSPIRACY TO RT AFTER THEY TRAVELED TO THE EVENT ARMED WH SHIELDS, METAL POL, AND AT LEAST ONE SMOKE GRENA. THAT SAME DAY, A GROUP OF PROUD BOYS STORMED A CALIFORNIA LIBRARY’S DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND BEGAN HURLG ANTI-TRANS AND ANTIGAY SLURS AT ATTEN. SIARLY, A BAND OF REPORTED “CHRISTIAN FASCISTS” HARASSED AND THREATENED PATRONS OF DRAG QUEEN BNCH DALLAS LAST WEEK. DURG THE CINT, THE GROUP BEGAN DIRECTG “GROOMER” CHANTS AT THE EVENT’S PARTICIPANTS AND GUTS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CALEB ERMA

” Fally when asked what, Ben’s view, a “gay person should do” Shapiro rpond “ially they would fd a woman and have children…but be hont about . The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro joed "The Glenn Beck Rad Program" Tuday to break down everythg you need to know about the Supreme Court's 6-3 lg to extend Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act protectns to gay, lbian, and transgenr people. ” He then implied that there was some sort of nspiracy where Hulu has gone so far “that they’ve cid, the entertament dtry, that they have to go to plac like Hallmark and then browbeat them to makg piec on lbian and gay upl even though the ma nstuency for Hallmark is largely relig fai wh small children.

BEN SHAPIRO THREATENS BETO O’ROURKE WH GUN VLENCE BEE THE GAYS

— Pl Rudnick (@PlRudnickNY) November 30, 2020Read origal story Everybody’s Draggg Ben Shapiro for Homophobic Tira About ‘Happit Season’ At TheWrap. Many such peddlers of fear and disrmatn about LGBTQ people – cludg the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, his boss Ben Shapiro, and Candace Owens – took to Twter the wake of the shootg to attack “the left” and “Democrats” for drawg the obv lk between months of heightened anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and homophobic and transphobic murrs. Sce early 2021, Raichik has posted a stream of transphobic and homophobic msag on platforms cludg Twter, Facebook, Substack, and far-right favore, Gab, unr the psdonym “Libs of TikTok.

An attacker opened fire a gay nightclub late Saturday night killg five people and woundg at least 25, officials said.

In March, Christe Phaw, prs secretary to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, fend the state's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill wh anti-LGBTQ smears accg people of "groomg" children. Mark Hal and Ben Shapiro have verbally sparred on Twter over Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill—and the ter has backed the Star Wars ntroversial bill refers to a motn passed by the Florida Senate that bans the discsn of sexual orientatn or inty schools for children unr the age of 10.

HOW THE WAR ON CRIL RACE THEORY REVIVED ANTI-GAY ACTIVISM SCHOOLS

Activists have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" cisn has ed uproar onle wh many people speakg out agast the bill, cludg Le Skywalker himself, Hal. Shapiro snapped back at Hal's ial tweet, before Hal's swift rponse gaed hundreds of thoands of Tuday, Hal volized his support for Florida stunts who were prottg the "Don't Say Gay" bill by retweetg a msage om the Occupy Democrats acunt. His tweet received 179, 000 lik and 35, 300 gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gaygay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay ? Mark Hal (@HalHimself) March 8, 2022.

Based on the sreboard of lik that both Shapiro and Hal received for their tweets and arguments, the ter gave Hal 10 tim more support for his stance on the "Don't Say Gay" bill. “Disney works to ph a ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’…Parents should keep that md before cidg whether to take their kids to see ‘Lightyear, ’” tweeted Ben Shapiro, one of the most popular right-wg podst hosts.

But the foc of the attacks has sce shifted om schools, evolvg to much broar attacks on LGBTQ+ people all public a Townhall lumn tled “When a Kiss Is Not Jt a Kiss, ” talk rad host Larry O’Connor phed back agast a Perez Hilton tweet notg that Lightyear is “banned multiple untri over a gay kiss. That same day, a group of Proud Boys stormed a California library’s drag queen story hour and began hurlg anti-trans and antigay slurs at atten. In an terview earlier this week wh Je Ramos on Fn TV, Ben Shapiro, Brebart’s edor-at-large, said that, “[t]his is not a untry that discrimat agast homosexuals” and that “there is a vastly mute amount of discrimatn agast gays this untry.