The Republican candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli, is being criticized by advocates and his political opponents for what they called “hateful” comments, describing him as an “extremist” and “mini-Trump contender.”
The onslaught of criticism followed the publication of audio clips of Ciattarelli saying at a campaign stop last month that he would roll back New Jersey’s LGBTQ curriculum.
“I feel lucky [our children] are in their 20s and I don’t have to be dealing with what you’re dealing with right now,” Ciattarelli said, according to the report by Gothamist/WNYC.
“You won’t have to deal with it when I’m governor, but we’re not teaching gender ID and sexual orientation to kindergartners,” he said. “We’re not teaching sodomy in sixth grade. And we’re going to roll back the LGBTQ curriculum. It goes too far.”
