This second grader has more common sense than Ron DeSantis, writes MichaelDalyNYC
A Florida second-grader with two mommies was coming back from lunch at Sikes Elementary School in Lakeland last week when he overheard two teachers saying the state legislature had just passed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.Don’t Say Gay
“What if someone's parents are gay?” he asked. “You can’t talk about your parents because they’re gay.”“The first thing I thought of was something that happened not long ago,” he said. “I was telling my friend about my parents before this was a thing and he didn’t know what lesbian meant. So I told him what it meant. I told him, ’It means when a girl marries a girl.’ He said, ‘That's weird.’ I said, ‘It’s not their fault they fall in love.
“It’s stupid,” he said. “It needs to go away because people might feel left out and might feel really sad and stuff. Everybody should be able to love everybody and be able to talk about it in school.” “Before, it was, ‘Oh, my moms are gay’ and that was it,” Kallie recalled. “But now he has all these racing thoughts, like, ‘Are my moms going to hell?’ He's straight up asking me, ‘So are you going to hell?’ I'm like, ‘I’m driving a minivan there… but for many different reasons.’”
“I've been honest with my kids,’ she said. “Like when they start school, I say, ‘You know, there's gonna be people who are gonna ask questions about you having two moms and that's okay. You can tell 'em about us. And you know, there's people who don't understand it. And there's gonna be people who don't like it… And all we can do is rise above it. We can be better and show them, you know, we're not that different. Our family is like their family.
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