In April of 2022, President Joe Biden told American parents that they don’t have authority over their own children. In a speech last year at the Teachers of the Year celebration, he said, “They’re all our children. And the reason you’re the teachers of the year is because you recognize that. They’re not somebody else’s children. They’re like yours when they’re in the classroom,” he said.
Today, Biden stayed on message: “There is no such thing as someone else’s child. No such thing as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children,” Biden said as he honored the 2023 teacher of the year in the White House Rose Garden.
Those words stung conservatives, who have witnessed government take control of their children by increments. In Washington state, lawmakers just passed a bill that will allow shelters and the government to essentially kidnap children from their parents if their parents don’t approve of gender transition procedures.
Alaska’s Nick Begich was not impressed by the president’s words. The former congressional candidate said on Facebook, “Today Joe Biden said the quiet part out loud. ‘There’s no such thing as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children.’ Let’s be clear: children are the responsibility of parents. Children are NOT property of the state.”
He then went on to point out Congresswoman Mary Peltola’s record:
“Of course, Mary Peltola proudly OPPOSED the Parents Bill of Rights Act which passed the Republican House just a few weeks ago. Her position in opposition to the basic rights of parents is neither pro family nor pro freedom,” Begich wrote on Facebook.
