“Conservative Ladies of WA,” Washington III%, and “Gays Against Groomers” held a “Protect Our Children” rally Friday at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, where they were met with counter-protest.
The two sides were mostly kept apart by police, security, and barriers, but a handful of people from the counter-protest side came over to the rally at one point.
“All perverts evacuate the area!” a woman yelled at them. Washington III% leader Erik Rohde stepped in to say it’s “her First Amendment right.”
Rohde gave the first speech at the “Protect Our Children” rally, beginning by taking his bulletproof vest off because “I wear the armor of God!”
He accused State Rep Alex Ramel (D) of sending over the protesters to “instigate.”
As Rohde led the crowd in a chant of “We will fight! We will fight!” a counter protester interrupted by entering the stage while playing a tuba.
“Debate me, don’t hate me!” Rohde said.
“I am fighting against hate speech,” the tuba man said.
Conservative Republican State Rep Jim Walsh was the only elected official to speak.
He claimed new legislation will “chip away in narrow ways at your foundational rights to raise your children and grandchildren, to keep your families together as you see fit.”
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