“Look, we want to have our kids be kids, okay.
I think that was really, really disturbing. There is also very graphic language in that thing, and people got a lot of video and a lot of stuff from it. So we probably may have the ability to deal with that if something like that happens. “That is not something that children should be exposed to. “You had these very young kids, they must have been 9, 10 years old at a quote ‘drag show’ where they were putting money in the underwear. He specifically referenced the Dallas video. We have laws against child endangerment.” “We have child protective statutes on the books. “I’ve asked my folks to look,” DeSantis said at a Fort Myers press conference. “When will the sexualization of children stop?” Sabatini tweeted.Īsked about Sabatini’s proposal at a press conference Friday, DeSantis, a prospective Republican candidate for president, said he would consider signing the law.
Anthony Sabatini, a Republican candidate for Congress, proposed legislation to charge parents with felonies and terminate the parental rights of any adult who brings a child “to these perverted sex shows aimed at FL kids.” Ron DeSantis signaled he would consider a law stripping rights from parents who take their children to drag shows.Īfter video of a “Drag the Kids to Pride” event in Dallas sparked right-wing outrage, several GOP lawmakers proposed laws restricting children from drag shows.