00:00Chair recognizes the lady from Jefferson 43 for discussion of the matter.
00:04Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:05Will the lady yield to a question?
00:07Y'all, listen to this, black woman.
00:09Does this bill label for the protection of children ban conversion therapy?
00:15Lady McShelvey.
00:17No.
00:17I love black women, by the way.
00:18We are amazing.
00:19Will she yield to a second question?
00:20She will yield.
00:23This country is built on parents being responsible for their children.
00:28In fact, truth be told, you don't even like your in-laws to tell you what to do with your kids.
00:33In this bill, are we substituting the opinions of legislators for the right of parents to raise their children?
00:45Lady McShelvey.
00:46Absolutely not.
00:47Parents have never had the right to subject their children to irreparable harm.
00:52Lady McShelvey.
00:53May I speak on the bill?
00:54Yes, ma'am.
00:54I'm not even sure how we got here.
01:01But as a 27-year military veteran, I fought so that all people could have freedoms, not just the ones I liked.
01:09As an ordained minister, we preach, we teach all the time that God's decisions are perfect.
01:16And that we're to go out and do what he asked us to do, take care of the least of these, love above all, do the work for the people that need it.
01:25And now we're saying he's imperfect because we've got to fix it.
01:29We've got to insert our opinion on top of God's design.
01:32Don't tell me it's about irreparable harm because you're not doing anything for the children that are hungry.
01:40You're not doing anything for the children that are in foster care being abused.
01:43You're not doing what needs to be done for the little black kids that are experiencing racism every day.
01:48It is not for irreparable harm.
01:51It's because they are not like you.
01:53And as a mother, how dare you interfere with one of the most intimate relationships?
02:04This bill doesn't even do anything to say, well, I think the parenting is inadequate, so let me put some money and some time into parenting skills.
02:12This bill doesn't even say, what is the problem?
02:16With parenting skills, it goes for the juggler to kill a nally
02:21and make sure that a whole group of people, who, by the way, is a small percentage, have no rights.
02:29Now here's the good news.
02:31Go ahead and vote the way you'd like to vote.
02:33But if you don't stand for them, I promise you, they'll come for you.
02:39Yes.
02:40You don't like feeding your children oatmeal for breakfast?
02:42The government's going to tell you to do that.
02:44You don't want your child to go to the University of Louisville?
02:47The government could tell you to do that.
02:48We have no right to interfere in the parental rights.
02:54If you were really, really concerned about children, I could give you a hundred other things you could do to make sure that every kid in Kentucky thrives.
03:04Let's try giving them water out in the rural areas, portable water.
03:08Let's try Medicare, Medicaid, so they can go to the doctor.
03:12Let's try getting the kids off the street that are homeless and sleeping with snow as a blanket.
03:17I was born at night, but not last night.
03:26This is not about what you say it is.
03:28And if you want to be honest, just get ready for the invasion in your life.
03:32Because as I recall, a couple of months ago, you were saying the government can't tell me to wear a cloth mask to prevent a global pandemic.
03:38And now you're saying the government can tell a mother and a father what to do with their kid, and they don't have any right to opt out.
