{"id":1708311,"date":"2022-10-24T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708311"},"modified":"2022-10-24T06:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:19:01","slug":"aoc-smears-people-confronting-her-at-town-halls-as-anti-lgbt-without-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-smears-people-confronting-her-at-town-halls-as-anti-lgbt-without-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Smears People Confronting Her at Town Halls as &#8220;Anti-LGBT&#8221; Without Evidence"},"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\">24<\/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%2Faoc-smears-people-confronting-her-at-town-halls-as-anti-lgbt-without-evidence%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=1708311&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/original_AOCVQueens.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/you-have-done-nothing-aoc-townhall-interrupted-by-anti-war-protestors\">New York Congresswoman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rails-against-the-free-press\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> compared her constituents to members of the Westboro Baptist Church and therefore does not need to &#8220;take them seriously&#8221; after a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/aoc-has-got-to-go-protestors-humiliate-aoc-in-her-own-district\">disastrous town hall event on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AOC wrote &#8220;These homophobes were yelling Westboro Baptist-style anti-LGBT+ slogans. What do you think I\u2019m gonna do? Take them seriously? If you want to associate w\/ their views, that\u2019s your business. But NY-14 will ALWAYS have a champion for LGBTQ+ people on my watch. Period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>One Twitter user remarked, &#8220;You know you\u2019re the representative for everyone in your district right? Not just the ones who vote for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s remarks accompanied a reposted video of her dancing while a crowd shouted &#8220;AOC has got to go.&#8221; The congresswoman was hosting a Listening Forum Event in Astoria, Queens, where she was met by the lively group of locals.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Oliya Scootercaster shared more video and wrote, &#8220;Since that video was stolen from my page, here is a link to a full thread with context.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>In one clip, a man can be heard shouting &#8220;If you&#8217;re gay, you get to have a house, but if you&#8217;re not gay you have to live on the street?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His comments come after AOC claimed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocasiocortez.com\/issues\">housing as a human right<\/a>,&#8221; where certain members of the community would be given free housing at taxpayer expense. The progressive also champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qchnyc.org\/news\/3846097\/queens-county-politics-ocasio-cortez-visits-queens-community-houses-lgbtq-senior-center\">LGBTQ centers<\/a> as part of her equity commitment, which sees district resources disproportionally allotted to their operation.<\/p>\n<p>After the man was dismissed, he added &#8220;So if I don&#8217;t have butt sex, I can&#8217;t have a place to live?&#8221; to which she responded with the false claim that &#8220;Sexual orientation has nothing to do with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lesbian, gay, and bisexual monikers all denote a sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>AOC continued to address the crowd, and asked a woman in the audience why she was mad, to which she replied, &#8220;I am not mad. There are only two f*cking genders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>AOC has been a consistent proponent of radical gender ideology, and even started &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoc.org\/trans-wellness-services\">Trans Wellness Services<\/a>,&#8221; which offers hormone replacement therapy.<\/p>\n<p>She likened the remarks of her constituents to those of the Westboro Baptist Church, whose slogan is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.godhatesfags.com\/\">God hates f*gs<\/a>.&#8221; Church members can be seen protesting at the funerals of veterans, as they believe 9\/11 was God&#8217;s punishment for America&#8217;s acceptance of gay culture.<\/p>\n<p>AOC has had a<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/you-have-done-nothing-aoc-townhall-interrupted-by-anti-war-protestors\"> tough few weeks<\/a> when it comes to town hall events. Last week, the congresswoman was slammed at an event in the Bronx by anti-war protestors demanding why she was backing US involvement in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared her constituents to members of the Westboro Baptist Church and therefore does not need to &#8220;take them seriously&#8221; after a disastrous town hall event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708311","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=1708311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}