In segment with House candidate from Virginia, OAN panelist spreads conspiracy theory that the LGBTQ community seeks to normalize pedophilia
Another panelist, Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project, promoted the dangerous falsehood that Democrats are “grooming” children in schools
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Citation From the October 22, 2022, edition of One America News Network's Weekly Briefing
CHANEL RION (HOST): More than 30 House Republicans have signed on to the Stop The Sexualization Of Our Children Act; the bill would make it illegal to use federal funding to develop, implement, facilitate, or fund any sexually-oriented program, event or literature for children under the age of ten Terry, I direct this topic to you. Where is this bill at, and does it have a chance of actually becoming a law?
TERRY SCHILLING (GUEST): So I think it's important to go back just a few elections, right? And that's really the center of all this. Just a few elections ago, 2016. We couldn't get Republicans to talk about protecting our daughters in their locker rooms and their private spaces. They were all saying, oh, we don't have a problem with bathrooms in my state.
And now you fast forward after years of Democrats getting more and more extreme on these issues, pushing transgender surgeries on kids, grooming them in schools with these literally pornographic books and also in campaign investments and showing Republicans how to win on these issues and make their Democratic opponents pay a price. We're now at a point where Republicans are openly talking about protecting our kids again, so it's a very important moment.
Where this bill goes from here is unclear. I think that this new crop of Republicans that are going into Congress, into the Senate and into our state legislatures, I think they're much more aggressive and much more willing to take on these types of social issues as they've been branded – the really family issues and they're family table issues to protect our kids and our parental rights.
But I think it has a great chance of passing, once we get a new president in there, so it's really going to be up to President Trump to champion this like Ron DeSantis has done in Florida, and make it a real issue so that when he gets elected in 2024, he can go off running with it and sign it as one of his first priorities.
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RION: I mean, in your district, they were teaching things way beyond the scope of birds and bees to kindergartners, and they've been trying to inject that actually in your district because your district boasts some of the top schools in the nation. So it's almost like they're using your district as kind of an incubator to teach the other, the rest of the schools in the nation.
KARINA LIPSMAN (CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE): That's exactly it. And then they completely shut out the parents, so the parents have no rights Delegate Guzmán went live talking about how parents would be criminally prosecuted if they weren't on board with children being able to go through these life-altering surgeries that would impact their whole life and children at that age – they're so confused. They're still learning themselves. There's going through puberty. They have so many emotions. And we should be encouraging them to learn basic skills, set them up for success in our world – because this is the future of our country.
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DARREN NELSON (GUEST): So the trans activists have taken things to a new toxic level. But what's coming now is the MAPs. The MAPs activists, which is the minor-attracted persons, which is pedophiles essentially. So this is – this may get far worse. Unless obviously, we stop it.