(WASHINGTON D.C.) – March for Kids, a grassroots movement defending parental rights and prioritizing children, announced today that four-term Congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, a combat veteran with three deployments to war zones in the Middle East and Africa currently serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, will join the March for Kids in Washington, D.C. on August 31, 2024 and serve as a March Captain.
“I’m so grateful to Moms for Liberty for their courageous and powerful voices of truth and look forward to joining them at the first-ever March for Kids. This will be a historic event bringing together fellow Americans from different political, religious, ethnic and racial backgrounds who believe in liberty, and that parents, not government, should determine the upbringing of their kids,” Gabbard said. “For too long, bureaucrats and politicians have overstepped their constitutional limits, insisting they know what’s better for children than parents to. At the March for Kids, we’ll stand together to say in one voice: No more.”
Throughout her time in Congress and as a presidential candidate, Ms. Gabbard ran on a pro-Constitution, pro-liberty platform that empowered citizens to pursue happiness in their own way while restraining the power of the federal government and maintaining a system of checks-and-balances upon which our Republic was founded.
Ms. Gabbard is a long-time advocate for parents and children. In 2022, Ms. Gabbard broke new ground for a nationally recognized Democrat when she supported the Parental Rights and Education Bill in Florida. In a video posted on X, Ms. Gabbard said the law banned “government and government schools from indoctrinating woke sexual values in our schools.” She supported expanding the law to apply to children of all ages rather than limiting the law to K-3 students, saying “Parents are the ones responsible for raising their kids and instilling in them a moral foundation, not the government.”
She also supported expanding the law to apply to children of all ages rather than limiting the law to K-3 students, explaining, “Parents are the ones responsible for raising their kids and instilling in them a moral foundation, not the government.”
Throughout her career, Ms. Gabbard has been a trailblazer. When she was elected to the Hawaii State House at age 21, she was the youngest female legislator in the country. Ten years later, she was one of the first two female combat veterans elected to Congress and served as the body’s first Hindu and first American Samoan with congressional voting privileges. She was also the first Hindu to run for President of the United States from a major political party.
March for Kids will convene at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 31, 2024 at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. This nonpartisan event will raise awareness for the need to protect the rights of parents to direct their children’s upbringing.
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March for Kids is a collaboration of grassroots organizations and their members from across the U.S. to advocate for the protection of parents’ fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. For more information, visit www.marchforkids.com.
