Chokes up at children being beaten by parents after admitting their orientation – “it’s a case of life or death for some of them”
In a moving speech, Smith specifically supports GSA clubs when students ask for them, without requiring any court intervention. Wildrose Smith is firmly behind supporting children as individuals capable and permitted to make decisions on their own.
“[t]here is with these children somewhere in the age of sexual maturity ,somewhere above the age of 14 when they’re in high school where they really have the ability and right to be able to make their own decisions about the kind of support that they feel that they need to feel accepted. And that to me is what GSA clubs are about. The children that I met with, who were at these GSA clubs – most of them, their parents didn’t know that they were out yet. Most of them knew that if their parents knew that there’d be some consequences to that. One individual I spoke with she said that two lesbian girls had come out at her school and had been kicked out of the school. Another young boy told me that he came out to his parents and his Dad rejected him. […] Another young woman was beaten by her father. So what while I respect that we need to find a balance with parental rights and with religious freedom I think we need to also respect that in the case of these mature youths this really is a case of life for death for some of them”
Danielle Smith, Bill 10, Second Reading (emphasis ours)
She’s so proud of this delivery, the clip makes her Youtube channel collection: