Crowds cheer on Robinson's fiery LGBTQ rhetoric

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson resumed his attack on LGBTQ issues in schools during a Friday morning rally in downtown Raleigh.
Posted 10/29/2021, 3:30:00 PM Updated 10/30/2021, 12:31:22 AM

AGENDA TO BE PUBLISHED, WE

WILL, IN FACT, SEE IN THIS IS

GOING TO BE DISCUSSED AND HOW.

>> SKY FIVE FLEW OVER HEAD AS A

CROWD OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

TURNED OUT FOR CHRISTIAN RIGHTS

AND ANTI-ABORTION RALLY IN

DOWNTOWN RALEIGH TODAY.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MARK

ROBINSON WHO RECENT LIVE HINTED

AT A RUN FOR GOVERNOR IN 2024

SPEAK AT THE EVENT.

KEELY HAS THE LATEST ON THE

RALLY AND WHAT WAS SAID.

>> Reporter: IT'S QUIET RIGHT

NOW, BUT EARLIER TODAY, THERE

WERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

FILLING THIS SPACE.

A LOT OF PEOPLE SPOKE.

NO ONE GOT FOR APPLAUSE THAN

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MARK

ROBINSON WHO SAID HE WOULD

ESSENTIALLY DIE FOR HIS

CHRISTIAN VALUE.

>> THE CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS OF

THIS NATION WILL OWN THIS

NATION AND RULE THIS NATION!

>> Reporter: THAT SEEMED TO

RESONATE WITH THE ESTIMATED

2,000 PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED?

THE CHURCH NEEDS PEOPLE THAT

WILL LISTEN TO THEM.

>> Reporter: FROM THE PARENTS

TO COUPLES, THE OLD AND YOUNG,

EVEN STUDENTS ON SCHOOL FIELD

TRIP.

ALL CAME TO RALEIGH.

>> FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE

COAST.

>> Reporter: TO STAND UP FOR

WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS CHRISTIAN

RIGHTS.

>> I REALLY BELIEVE THERE'S A

MAJORITY OF US OUT THERE, A

SILENT MAJORITY, AND HERE WE'RE

SPEAKING UP.

>> Reporter: ATTENDEES SAID

THEY BELIEVE ROBINSON WOULD

LEAD IN A WAY THAT ALIGNED WITH

THEIR FAITH, WHICH THEY FEEL IS

THREATENED BY CURRENT

AGGRESSIVE POLICIES.

>> OUR ENEMIES ON THE OTHER

SIDE OF THE AISLE THAT WOULD

DRAG THIS COUNTRY DOWN TO A

SOCIALIST HELL HOLE.

I WILL NOT GIVE UP THIS NATION

TO YOU!

>> Reporter: AND WHILE HE DID

NOT MAKE HINTS AT THE RUN FOR

GOVERNOR, OTHERS CERTAINLY DID.

>> WE WELCOME THE POSSIBILITY

THAT HE MIGHT BE THE NEXT

GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH

CAROLINA!

>> Reporter: ROBINSON DID

REFERENCE THOSE CALLS FOR

RESIGNATION WHICH WE SAW

EARLIER THIS MONTH AFTER HE WAS

QUOTED ADAM CALLING THE LGBTQ

COMMUNITY FILTH.

HE WALKED THOSE BACK, SAYING HE

WAS TALKING ABOUT READING

MATERIALS IN SCHOOL, AND SAID,

DEBRA, HE PLANS TO PROTECT THE

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF

ANYONE, REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY

IDENTIFY.

>>> A GROUP OPPOSING THE

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE

HELD THEIR OWN PROTEST THIS

AFTERNOON.

A HANDFUL OF FAITH LEADERS

GATHERED OUTSIDE THE LIEUTENANT

GOVERNOR'S OFFICE THIS

AFTERNOON.

THE GROUP HAS GATHERED THERE

NUMEROUS TIMES IN RECENT WEEKS

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