Nikki Haley says Florida's 'don't say gay' law does not go 'far enough'

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Republican presidential candidate makes comments in New Hampshire on controversial law signed by governor Ron DeSantis

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/nikki-haley-ron-desantis-dont-say-gay-law

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley told a New Hampshire audience the controversial “don’t say gay” education law signed by the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, does not go “far enough”. “Basically what it said was you shouldn’t be able to talk about gender before third grade,” Haley said. “I’m sorry. I don’t think that goes far enough.”

DeSantis’s law bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity through third grade, in which children are eight or nine years old. The law has proved hugely controversial, stoking confrontation with progressives but also corporations key to the Florida economy, Disney prominent among them.

Some paediatric psychologists say the law could harm the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth already more likely to face bullying and attempt suicide than other children. Haley, a former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador, this week became the second declared major candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024, after Donald Trump.

Widely expected to run, DeSantis is the only candidate who challenges Trump in polling. Surveys have shown Haley in third place, with the potential to split the anti-Trump vote and hand the nomination to the former president. New Hampshire will stage the first primary of the Republican race.

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[Autumn]

1. What does go far enough? Deport "the gays" ?

Fuck Florida, Republicans and their little minions too.

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4. some of them will not be happy until it is legal to hang us from lampposts

[Drum]

2. Keep digging, Nikki

[Deuxcents]

8. ☝️

[EnergizedLib]

3. And thus

The pandering to the crazy begins.

[Rebl2]

5. Keep it

up Nikki the knucklehead.

[irisblue]

6. Pink triangles again Nikki?

[Freethinker65]

7. Words can harm kids and need more regulations and often bans...whereas guns...

[dchill]

9. Even when she's completely full of herself...

...Nikki is empty.

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10. Haley is an opportunistic pos

[lees1975]

11. It's laws against child porn purveyors in churches seem to be working OK

https://www.insideedition.com/florida-church-deacon-sentenced-to-22-years-in-prison-for-possessing-and-producing-child

Seems like Desantis and Haley are focusing on the wrong place.

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12. slaw-jaw paedos 4 jeebus

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13. Nimrata Randhawa said what?

[Aristus]

14. Ah yes. When the pukes are all jostling for the pole position

at the nominating convention, they double down on their awfulness.

‘More right-wing than thou’ is going to be the flavor of the month, every month, until they have their candidate.