{"id":1776800,"date":"2022-12-15T17:11:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776800"},"modified":"2022-12-15T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:18:56","slug":"dem-rep-porter-calling-someone-a-groomer-or-pedophile-brands-them-a-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-porter-calling-someone-a-groomer-or-pedophile-brands-them-a-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep. Porter: Calling Someone a &#8220;Groomer&#8221; or &#8220;Pedophile&#8221; Brands Them a Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fdem-rep-porter-calling-someone-a-groomer-or-pedophile-brands-them-a-criminal%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=1776800&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:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-12\/Katie%20Porter.jpg?h=74d68f78&#038;itok=4i870tSV\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter says calling a person a &#8220;pedophile&#8221; or &#8220;groomer&#8221; is alleging that they are a criminal because of their &#8220;identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This allegation of groomer and pedophile, it is alleging that a person is criminal somehow, and engaged in criminal acts merely because of their identity, their sexual orientation and their gender identity,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?524793-1\/survivors-club-shooting-activists-testify-anti-lgbtq-violence\">Porter said<\/a> at Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday\u00a0titled, &#8220;The Rise of Anti-LGBTQI+ Extremism and Violence in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Porter also said the &#8220;groomer narrative is an age-old lie to position LGBTQ+ people as a threat to kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson said at the hearing: &#8220;When we use words and phrases like groomers and pedophiles to describe people &#8230; it is dangerous and it&#8217;s got one purpose. It is to dehumanize us and make it feel like we are not a part of this American society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Porter&#8217;s comments were criticized after the hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Katie Porter just said that pedophilia isn\u2019t a crime, she said it\u2019s an &#8216;identity.&#8217; THIS IS THE EMBODIMENT OF EVIL!&#8221; Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonnyJacksonTX\/status\/1603451758352777220?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">Ronny Jackson<\/a> (R-Texas) tweeted. &#8220;The sad thing is that this woman isn&#8217;t the only VILE person pushing for pedophilia normalization. This is what progressives believe!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter says calling a person a &#8220;pedophile&#8221; or &#8220;groomer&#8221; is alleging that they are a criminal because of their &#8220;identity.&#8221;&#8221;This allegation of groomer and pedophile, it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1776803,"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":[9357,5458,9433,4206,3977,6244,8979,9432,7129,3819],"class_list":["post-1776800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-groomer","tag-bongino","tag-brands","tag-calling","tag-criminal","tag-dem","tag-pedophile","tag-porter","tag-rep","tag-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\/1776800","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=1776800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}