Democrat lawmakers in a state legislature have turned into thought police, issuing a formal censure against a Republican representative who expressed her opinion regarding allowing men to participate in women’s sports events.
The report on what happened to Rep. Laurel D. Libby, a Republican in Maine’s House of Representatives, has been documented by the Washington Stand.
The action, a formal censure and ban on letting her speak because of what the Democrats wildly claimed was a lack of “good moral character,” is supposed to be in place until she “apologizes.”
The fight is one that’s going on across the country, as leftists promoting what Joe Biden held as one of his standards for his presidency, a promotion of the LGBT lifestyle choice, continue to fight for their ideology in the wake of President Donald Trump’s announcement that the government now recognizes two sexes, male and female.
The vote for Libby’s punishment was 75-70 along party lines.
Democrats claimed, ‘The House finds the conduct of Representative Laurel D. Libby to be reprehensible and in direct violation of our code of ethics.”
Libby’s opinions enraged Democrats when she wrote on social media about a male who won the state’s girl’s class B championship in pole vault.
Her comments included that one year earlier, “John tied for 5th place in boys pole vault. Tonight, ‘Katie’ won 1st place in the girls’ Maine State Class B Championship.”
Libby told the Washington Watch program that she was silenced for speaking up for girls who were “displaced from the top of the podium by a biological male.”
She declined orders from House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, a Democrat, to take down the post that has been viewed well beyond 100,000 times, so the party attacked her with a resolution, with the attempt at political manipulation clear.
“If Rep. Libby had posted the same picture, the same name with sentiments of congratulations, would we be here doing the censure right now? I think we know the answer to that,” explained Rep. Jennifer Poirier, a Republican.
Libby was cut off from even defending her statement as Democrats continually interrupted.
And the move even destroyed the impact of a censure in the state, Republicans warned.
“This censure motion makes a mockery of the censure process,” House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham said, explaining nothing in the code of ethics allows the legislature to censure a lawmaker over online speech.
The report explained, “The chamber’s actions against Libby conform to the Democratic Party’s plans to overturn elections by stripping Republican elected officials such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) of their committee assignments, threatening to expel conservatives from Congress, or attempting to bar President Donald Trump from running for president by branding him an ‘insurrectionist’ ineligible for office under the 14th Amendment.”
The report noted Alleigh Marré, executive director of American Parents Coalition, praised Libby.
“Parents across Maine — and the country — are fed up with being ignored while their daughters are forced to compete against biological males. The Maine Principals’ Association’s decision isn’t just unfair; it’s an affront to every parent who expects their child to have a level playing field and is at odds with President Trump’s executive order protecting girls’ sports,” Marré told the Washington Stand.
Libby then urged President Trump to move to ensure that female athletes in Maine can once again compete on a level playing field, preserving the integrity of women’s sports,
It was, of course, Maine’s governor, Janet Mills, who endangered her state’s federal funding by publicly defying Trump’s executive order called, “No Men in Women’s Sports.”
And there’s a federal investigation of the state for Title IX violations.
Vast majorities of Americans say men who say they are women should not be allowed in women’s sports.
