Rob Schneider’s Biggest Scandals Exposed – Including Anti-LGBTQ Rant

Schneider has been openly speaking out against vaccines and the LGBTQ+ community for years.

In 2012, he joined a protest against AB 2019, which required parents to obtain a doctor’s signature for childhood vaccine exemptions.

“At some point you have to draw a line in the sand, and people have to raise their hands and be counted,” he told the crowd.

Two years later, State Farm dropped Schneider and removed his ad due to his anti-vaccine views.

“State Farm advertising is intended to inform and entertain,” it said in a public statement. “This particular ad was inadvertently used as a platform for discussion unrelated to the products and services we provide. As such, we are currently working to remove it from our rotation.”

Reacting to the development, Schneider quoted George Washington, writing in a tweet: “If freedom of speech is taken away, we may be led mutely and silently, like sheep to the slaughter.”

He also retweeted a link to a 2013 interview in which he stated that the idea that “vaccines don’t harm people” was a “misconception.”

“Two billion dollars have been paid out to people who have been injured or killed by vaccination in the United States. This is real,” he said. in an article.

Then, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Schneider shared a series of tweets He urged his followers not to get vaccinated.

The Deuce Bigalow: male gigolo actor stirred the pot again when he shared anti-vaccine and anti-trans jokes during a charity event at the Hospitals of Regina Foundation’s Four Seasons Ball. The audience booed him at the time, and his performance led to his removal from the stage.

“Everyone in the room was groaning and saying, ‘What’s going on?’ As if they were whispering to themselves. Not a single smile at times,” said event participant Tynan Allan CBC. “It was just very clear how uncomfortable everyone felt and how unacceptable the things he was talking about were.”

The foundation also released a statement discussing the controversy and explaining why they decided to close Schneider’s performance.

“While we recognize that individuals in a free and democratic society are entitled to their views and opinions and that comedy is intended to be edgy, the content, views and opinions expressed during Mr. Schneider’s set do not align with the values ​​of our Foundation and our team,” the statement said. “We tolerate, accept, endorse or share Mr. Schneider’s views as expressed during his comedy set and recognize that the performance in this case did not meet the expectations of our audience and our team.”

His eldest daughter, singer Elle King, responded to the backlash during a performance on Bunnie XO’s Stupid blonde podcast.

“I don’t agree with a lot of the things he says,” said the singer-songwriter, who reportedly goes “four or five years” without speaking to her father. “You’re talking out of your… and you’re talking about drag and, you know, anti-g– rights and it’s like you’re getting f…—-. He’s just talking out of his… and I want to take this opportunity to say that I don’t agree with it. I don’t agree with what he’s saying.”

While Schneider apologized after the scandal, King said it “means nothing.”

“What I will say is that the best thing that came out of that is that my incredible LGBTQ+ community knows they have an ally in me,” she continued. “And if that’s the most important thing to come out of that platform, I would have done it ten more times, because I’m an ally, they have one in me, and I’m grateful.”