Candace Owens, a conservative influencer and host on The Daily Wire, caught some heat in response to her comment that parents who take their kids to drag queen story hour are “underqualified” to have children while deeming this behavior “child abuse.”
Independent reported on Owens’ commentary regarding the thousands of dollars poured into drag queen shows at NYC schools amid Pride month.
“Of course, I have been covering the wonderful month of Pride, for which I feel no pride for at all. I think it should be called shame month. It’s absolute debauchery,” Owens said on her segment of the conservative news outlet.
“I spoke about this last week and when you believe when you start to see that your government is sponsoring that, when they’re putting real dollars behind things like drag queen story hour in New York City, you should realize that something nefarious is going on because the government does not care about your children. No, the government does not love your children,” Owens said.
She continued, “The government does not want your children to be accepted. The government wants your children to be enslaved to government for the rest of their life.And right now, as we’re seeing, there is a marriage between government and big pharma. It is my belief that that is the push behind this effort to tell children that they can pick their gender and to confuse them.”
“And you’re seeing right now that adults are getting behind this narrative so they can have a woke T-shirt on and say I love my children. I allowed my child to pick their gender and pick their species,” Owens said. “And they feel proud of themselves because they can go and they can say this on Facebook that they are wonderful, accepting, and loving adults. When, in reality, they are underqualified to have children.”
“They should have their children taken away from them because it’s child abuse,” she added.
Candace Owens says parents who take their children to drag queen story hour “are underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them” pic.twitter.com/P5Bk3QIWqo
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) June 16, 2022
Owen’s opinions struck a nerve with many, so the power of social media snapped back.
Amazing how the right wing is all about “parent’s rights” right up until those parents want to tell their children that gay people exist https://t.co/Ln0mmuH3xK
— Ari Drennen 🏳️🌈 (@AriDrennen) June 16, 2022
Would she say the same about parents who teach their children that being gay is a sin that needs to be suppressed. Thats worse.
— Anwesh Satpathy (@anwesh_satpathy) June 16, 2022
How long before they say gay kids, who are validated and supported by their family, should be removed by CPS because ” parents are grooming them into a degenerate lifestyle” ?
— RoninOttoNames (@RoninOttoNames) June 16, 2022
Candace should evaluate the tension between these two beliefs: 1) the government is in league with leftists to destroy families, 2) the government should be further empowered to take children away from their families https://t.co/0Ep1ZVveh3
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) June 16, 2022
With final victory over the rule of law and democracy in sight, conservatives are already planning their revenge against the liberals who stood in their way. Stealing children was one of the major ways Franco’s regime in Spain punished the opposition once in power. https://t.co/dYATdeXqfR
— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) June 16, 2022