Rand Paul’s wife, Kelley, lost it on Twitter this week after learning about an elementary school in Austin, Texas that held a Pride parade for students back in April 2021.
“And the assistant principal expressly told the little kids not to tell their parents what happened in the ‘pride circles’,” Kelley tweeted, along with a misleading article about the event published by an extreme right-wing blog.
And the assistant principal expressly told the little kids not to tell their parents what happened in the “pride circles”. https://t.co/9hHaiXsdMi
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) March 21, 2022
Mrs. Paul’s claim that the assistant principal of Doss Elementary told students “not to tell their parents” about the Pride event, however, is directly contradicted by the assistant principal’s own Twitter page, where she publicly posted about it almost a year ago.
“We had so much fun at our first Doss Pride Parade!” Hannah Wankel shared on April 21, 2021, along with several photos of the festivities.
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We had so much fun at our first Doss Pride Parade! @AustinISD @PrincipalSteen @Sheridan4T @CleverCounselor #AISDPride #AllAreWelcome #LetYourDossPrideShow pic.twitter.com/TMJ6xYa05P
— Hannah Wankel (@hannah_wankel) April 21, 2021
This year, the school organized another Pride celebration and Wankel tweeted about that, too. Numerous times, in fact:
Thank you to our Doss community for helping make our Pride parade so amazing! @AustinISD #AISDPride ????? pic.twitter.com/vZFMYdVnH7
— Hannah Wankel (@hannah_wankel) March 23, 2022
KG made a goal to complete 100 acts of Kindness by the end of Pride week! Off to a great start!! @AustinISD @PrincipalSteen #AISDPride pic.twitter.com/szDAO078sC
— Hannah Wankel (@hannah_wankel) March 22, 2022
Kindness chains for #AISDPrideWeek ! @AustinISD @PrincipalSteen pic.twitter.com/yHDo633Fny
— Hannah Wankel (@hannah_wankel) March 21, 2022
But Kelley’s hatred for all things LGBTQ extends far beyond just the Pride parade at Doss Elementary. Last month, she used Twitter to spout hateful TERF ideology while declaring her undying support of transphobe JK Rowling.
“I have wonderful memories of reading the Harry Potter books to my kids. Sharing them and anticipating each new book was a magical part of their childhood. Shameful that the @nytimes is trying to erase the woman who created them, the brilliant @jk_rowling,” Kelley tweeted in response a subway ad for the newspaper that criticized the transphobic children’s author.
I have wonderful memories of reading the Harry Potter books to my kids. Sharing them and anticipating each new book was a magical part of their childhood. Shameful that the @nytimes is trying to erase the woman who created them, the brilliant @jk_rowling
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) February 21, 2022
And just this morning, she tweeted a quote her father-in-law, Ron Paul, while blasting Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for refusing to define the word “woman” during a transphobic line of questioning from Marsha Blackburn at her second day of Supreme Court nomination hearings yesterday.
“In 2022, the nominee for the highest court in the land is afraid to publicly say what a woman is. ‘Truth is treason in an empire of lies.’ – Ron Paul,” Kelley wrote.
In 2022, the nominee for the highest court in the land is afraid to publicly say what a woman is. “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” – Ron Paul.
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) March 23, 2022
Seriously, can someone please get this woman a Xanax?
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
ZzBomb
I’m sorry but I think teaching children how to be kind to others who may differ from them is a good thing.
I think teaching children about largely made up stories in the Bible as fact is child abuse.
Mister P
I agree. We should Not be teaching the Bible or trying to use it as model for running the country.
Polaro
Religion is ultimately a tool of control. Ethically, when taken as a whole, religions are all divisive.
Jim
Religion is politics with a diety.
barryaksarben
Organised religion is organised crime whose scam is so good idiots give them money every week
SamB
That kindness chart is ridiculous. So is a pride event for kids this age at school.
Cam
No surprise that a right wing hate account would be opposed to anything having to do with “Kindness”.
As for learning about Pride. How interesting, you don’t have a problem with them learning about hellfire, being nailed to a cross, being whipped with a crown of thorns on a person’s head….but no, Pride, that would just be TERRIBLE for people to learn about.
Additionally, the fact that you are on here, day after day, under multiple screenames defending bigots and attacking LGBTQ people shows just how desperate Republicans are to squash anything LGBTQ. That they would pay you and you would waste all this time amplifying and defending bigotry shows a true derangement.
As always, your trolling is sad and weak.
Eternal.Cowboy
You don’t have kids. It doesn’t impact you. We already know you have internalized homophobia. Maybe limit to your comments to when you have something of substance to offer? Yeah… I know that means you don’t get to regale with your opinions but we will get by.
Polaro
Sam, what you don’t know about children is concerning. Its like you never were one. Where you home schooled? Cloned and raised in a lab? I mean I’m starting to think you just might be algorithm.
SamB
Cowboy: LOL I don’t have kids so I know nothing about it. That means you need to keep quiet and not say anything about trans people or women because you aren’t one. Of course you won’t keep quiet though, so why should I?
Polaro: I’m ignoring your “burn”.
Eternal.Cowboy
Poor little guy, so angry. You are a fantastic example of why pride events at all ages. We really don’t need kids growing into the same self loathing you have.
SamB
Cowboy: I’m far from self-loathing and you know that, but it’s a convenient thing to say to try and diminish someone you don’t know.
Eternal.Cowboy
Nah, you are a fairly text book case of internalized homophobia. Your posts really underscore how much you don’t like LGBTQ+ people. I guess it wouldn’t be self loathing if you were actually a straight person. Perhaps that is what you are trying to say.
Ronbo
Pride should be part of a child’s reality to let them understand and know that being different is not wrong. Do you think that Pride events are related to carnal sex?
If you want to understand the community, make no stereotypical assumptions. Try to understand that, as a whole, the community is better educated and more attuned / sensitive – because of our history of being treated as criminals that are over-sexualized.
Sam, you are here for a reason, I hope that this journey helps bring you closer to understanding.
barryaksarben
lol samb you are getting so damned weak in your support of hatred. a kindness chart is a great idea that adults should emulate. You call it ridiculous ? wow astounding how kindness is ridiculous as are ALL your comments
Mister P
I think we all know that would find kindness ridiculous.
Ronbo
Yes, the children’s stories have been used like Santa Claus – used to manipulate and control. But let’s not forget that the vast majority of Religions are accepting of our community. Only a fraction of religiouns encourage hate – religious fanatics and those needing to justify their hate.
Most of the 10 ccmmandments are just common sense with a couple thrown in to keep the Judeo-Christian variant in control. Constantine ushered in the political / religious connections.
God is time, use your power to make things better.
Polaro
How does Rand Paul continue to get reelected?
Eternal.Cowboy
Because clowns like SamB that like performance over policy keep voting for people like Paul.
The Accidental Polemicist
From the written classroom instructions:
PRIDE Week Community Circles: PK-2
3. Review the agreements
• Respect privacy: “What we say in this room stays in this room.”
Will everyone follow the agreements?
And this is why more and more parents are opting to homeschool their children. Why the admonition not to mention this to anyone outside the classroom? This is a perfect example of what Governor Desantis in Florida is addressing with the wrongly named, “Don’t Say Gay” bill. It is to purposely have parental involvement.
ChristopherT
Don’t be dense. The point is that if a kid chooses to reveal that they are having LGBT feelings, it doesn’t become gossip fodder around the school. (I’m sure it’s not always successful, but having a policy of keeping private things private is common.)
The Accidental Polemicist
@ChristopherT
That is not the reason and you know it.
As reported by Abigail Shrier, the California Teachers Association held a conference in October 2021, where it advised teachers “on best practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation.” This is exactly what Governor Desantis is addressing in his Florida bill. It is a parental bill, because the teachers, principals and school boards do not own their students.
Now who is being “dense”?
Eternal.Cowboy
I live in Austin, I have a kid that goes to AISD (the school district mentioned in the tweet). Parents here aren’t bothered by by AISDs pride celebrations. This is all a non-issue. We are all kind of confused by why some dipwad is trying trying to interject herself into a community she isn’t a part of. In other news Austin city leadership issued a proclamation reiterating that it is a safe space for trans people and the LGBTQ+ community, so you and SamB are going to have something new to get you panties in a twist about Despite your best effort the LGBTQ+ community is still making progress.
SamB
Cowboy: Your alleged kid is 17 years old. So not the the same age range.
Eternal.Cowboy
SamB –
What a confounding statement. Si thought this was general knowledge but kids go up in age not down. My kid has been in the school district since kindergarten. AISD doing pride events isn’t something new. What you and Paul are hysterical about isn’t fairly routine and the parents in the Austin community totally support it. As a community Austin doesn’t harbor the bigotry you espouse.
Halfnhalf
I’m replying to both texts. How dare you use a well known transphobe as a source. I don’t believe anything she writes. None of that c##p happened and you know it. I can’t express how I feel because I’ll get blocked. The article explains that the teacher posted tweets and photos. You can read, right?
garrulous
I always wondered what kind of person would marry Rand Paul and, then, stick with him. Now I know. Someone who is just like him. Horrible, without a sense of tolerance, without an ounce of wisdom.
whereshouldistart
IKR? I always assumed there were at least two women out there who married Orville Reddenbacher and his creepy grandson.
I just never wanted to KNOW.
I try hard to keep my nightmare-generating information to a minimum so I can get at least the occasional good night’s sleep here and there.
IanHunter
She has always been a cold bitch. She is just jealous that she doesn’t get enough attention.
whereshouldistart
Maybe she should tell people she’s John McCain daughter.
Seems to work for what’s her name. (She hasn’t been in the news for 8 or 9 minutes so her name has slipped my mind.)
Flamingo Falls
It’s none of her business. Her husband is a senator from Kentucky, not Texas. Let Texas’ nut case senators, Cancun Cruz and Crazy Cronyn, do the complaining.
JeffBaker
I monitor a lot of rightwing Christian talk radio. It’s interesting that a lot of conservative talkers (including anti-Muslim Janet Mefford) who were calling the Harry Potter books “satanic” and advocating burning them are now gushing over them since the author started spreading hate.
GreekKeys
So, now, after decades of trying to convince straight people we were not recruiting kids… Gone.
Den
The right wing deals in lies, always. They need to manipulate with fear as they have nothing substantive to offer anymore. Look at SamB and his buddy The Accident, the equivalents of anti-Semites, trying very poorly to pose as Jews and posting in the Forward. Al they have to offer is lies, hatred, fear and ignorance.
The notion that we (as LGBT people) recruit children is great for riling up the republican base, as are the various anti-Semitic, Anti Muslim and racist tropes they are being trotted out on the right. They worked in Germany in the 1940’s and they will work now. Academics in various disciplines have noted that Democracy is under attack world wide, and autocracy is on the rise. This is a source of great glee for people like SamB and the Accident who long for a strong man to make them feel secure under the yoke of authoritarianism.
The Accidental Polemicist
@Den
When have I ever posed as a Jew? Such a liar.
I have never posted one item about Jews or Judaism.
You are a vile person who continuously lies to further your agenda.
Kevan1
@ DEN Sadly what you have said is true. We stupidly do not learn from our history.
barryaksarben
YOu cant be serious? are you that insecure in your homosexuality as to fear a proven pathetic lie. My nieces and nephews love me as their uncle and have known Im gay since they first asked their parents and now they make sure their kids know and love their great uncle. Just being open and honest at all times with the world gives you the freedom from this type of fear. This pride celebration focusing on kindness is the best thing ever and NO ONE in their right mind would see this as recruitment. grow some balls
barryaksarben
DEN you are so right. I do have to point out that they also pose as gay men and trans women if that is what they think will fool anyone
Georgeiv2
Rand Paul is married to a woman ? Well life is full of surprises !
TomG
Come on, we already KNOW that repukelicans cannot seem to stay in the present and always resort to the past.
Jim
Austin ISD has been celebrating pride for many years and won’t be stopping . You have to be a pretty oblivious parent not to know this.
AISD employees also have a presence in the August Pride Parade.
Don’t ask me why they Austin doesn’t have the parade during pride month though one year it was interesting when it was during the motorcycle rally.
barryaksarben
Oh dont you remember when the horrible little people were trying to ask him a question and he inflated that to being physically attacked by a giant mob. It was so pathetic and dangerous that he sees voters as the enemy and he is still in office