{"id":1373195,"date":"2022-03-12T09:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T14:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373195"},"modified":"2022-03-12T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:25:50","slug":"bill-maher-defends-florida-bill-maybe-kids-that-young-shouldnt-be-thinking-about-sex-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-defends-florida-bill-maybe-kids-that-young-shouldnt-be-thinking-about-sex-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Defends Florida Bill: \u2018Maybe Kids That Young Shouldn\u2019t Be Thinking About Sex At All\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-maher-defends-florida-bill-maybe-kids-that-young-shouldnt-be-thinking-about-sex-at-all%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373195&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1205195572.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Left-leaning comedian Bill Maher defended the Florida bill that critics have unfairly labeled \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay,\u201d arguing during the \u201cOvertime\u201d portion of Friday night\u2019s episode of \u201cReal Time With Bill Maher\u201d that it was reasonable to believe kids in early elementary school should not \u201cbe thinking about sex at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher discussed the issue with New York Times columnist Frank Bruni and Newsweek\u2019s Batya Ungar-Sargon, and he pointed to the fact that the bill <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/does-it-say-that-in-the-bill-ron-desantis-rebukes-reporter-for-pushing-dont-say-gay-narrative\/\">does not actually ban saying \u201cgay\u201d<\/a> at all and clearly addresses only classroom instruction for children \u2014 in pre-kindergarten through third grade \u2014 regarding gender identity and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Maher introduced the segment by saying he was going to bring in some discussion questions that had been submitted to the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad somebody asked this: \u2018Is Florida\u2019s Don\u2019t Say Gay bill designed to trap Democrats into saying they support teaching young children about sexuality\u2019 is the question,\u201d Maher read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we can broaden that to anything about that,\u201d Maher continued, noting that he had read up on the bill earlier in the day and there were certainly parts of it that seemed to make sense to him. \u201cIt\u2019s \u2014 it\u2019s \u2014 I mean, if people don\u2019t know, this is something DeSantis is about to sign. And I guess it\u2019s a reaction to Republicans who feel that there\u2019s too much talk in lower grades. I think it\u2019s only \u2014 they\u2019re talking about kindergarten to third grade. So we\u2019re talking about very young kids who, you know, as always with this stuff, you know this. It\u2019s not like there\u2019s no kernel of truth in that maybe kids that young shouldn\u2019t be thinking about sex at all. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s specific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, don\u2019t say, it\u2019s not like you\u2019re not allowed to literally not say \u2018gay,\u2019 but they just don\u2019t want teachers talking about it. They think it\u2019s the province of parents,\u201d Maher then turned the question to his guests. \u201cWhat do you think?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you think, Frank? I\u2019m curious,\u201d Ungar-Sargon asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, that sounds reasonable on the face of it. I mean, I\u2019m not \u2014 I\u2019m not. My main concern, as a gay man who advocates for gay rights, is not that second-graders know who Harvey Milk is,\u201d Bruni replied. \u201cThat is not the key to LGBTQ equality. But I mean, I also question, I mean, is this really need to be at the top of these politicians\u2019 list? I mean, this is a total \u2014 it\u2019s \u2014 this is\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s a wedge issue\u2026\u201d Maher pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is \u2014 this is not going to improve Floridians\u2019 lives. This is not an urgent problem,\u201d Bruni insisted. \u201cThis is a dodge. It\u2019s another culture war that\u2019s meant to score cheap, easy points rather than really solving Americans\u2019 problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed the Florida Senate late last week and is expected to get Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 (R-FL) signature in the coming days. Notable opposition to the bill has come from as high up as the White House, where press secretary Jen Psaki members of the press corps that President Joe Biden views this bill and others like it as \u201ca form of bullying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/its-horrific-psaki-says-not-teaching-5-year-olds-about-gender-identity-is-a-form-of-bullying\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cA bill like this, that would discriminate against families, against kids, put these kids in the position of not getting the support they need at a time where that\u2019s exactly what they need. It\u2019s discriminatory. It\u2019s a form of bullying. It is horrific. I mean, the president has spoken to that,\u201d Psaki said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-leaning comedian Bill Maher defended the Florida bill that critics have unfairly labeled \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay,\u201d arguing during the \u201cOvertime\u201d portion of Friday night\u2019s episode of \u201cReal Time With Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}