With the coronavirus epidemic nearing its peak, Bolsonaro hugs and holds children in his arms at the Alvorada Palace.
Defying health authorities in Brazil and around the world, Jair Bolsonaro hugged and held children in his arms in the gardens of the Alvorada Palace on Tuesday morning. This occurred during a flag-raising ceremony. Bolsonaro announced that he will send a bill to Congress prohibiting the teaching of what the far-right calls "gender ideology" in schools.
247 - Bolsonaro hugged and held children in his arms in the gardens of the Alvorada Palace on Tuesday morning (12), when the coronavirus epidemic is approaching its peak. It was during a monthly ceremony to raise the Brazilian flag that brings together ministers. The children, visibly very poor, were taken to the place by a fundamentalist Catholic priest, Pedro Stepien.
In an awkward, clearly rehearsed performance, the children began to present "demands," basically containing the content of a fundamentalist moral platform. "We children don't want gender ideology," they said, to which Bolsonaro replied that he would send a bill to Congress today "with constitutional urgency on the subject."
According to Bolsonaro, a federal bill will be sent prohibiting the teaching of what Bolsonarism calls "gender ideology" in schools. "We know that by a vote of 11 to 0, the Supreme Court overturned a municipal law [that prohibited the teaching of gender ideology]. I have already asked Major Jorge [Oliveira, Chief Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency] for a federal law, which we should approve today," he stated.
Regarding the other "claim" that "we children don't want the parental alienation law," recited by a girl, Bolsonaro summoned the Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, who responded, on another subject, assuring that the textbooks of his administration will include the guarantee "that children now have the right to have a religion"—as if such a right had ever been threatened, in another blatant piece of fake news.
The ceremony continued with the raising of the flag.
See another photo of Bolsonaro hugging the children and putting them at risk, followed by Bolsonaro's post with the video:
