Welcome to what is the 1282nd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Mary Bentley, the former Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives who was first elected to serve District 54 of that body back in 2014. And she… is clearly a Evangelical zealot. In just a decade in office, sure, she’s racked up a conservative voting record that is red as can be, even for an Arkansas Republican. Sure, she’ll vote against “Critical Race Theory” being taught (when it’s not in the first place) to let everybody know she’s into white nationalism, and she spent the Covid-19 pandemic voting to try to make sure Gov. Asa Hutchinson couldn’t wield any of his powers to keep people wearing masks or get vaccinated to help stop the spread of the virus… or that she was a co-sponsor of the bill to ban abortion in Arkansas and her support of Arkansas “monument to the unborn” and her desire to place it in places close to Civil Rights memorials and monuments to fallen soldiers.
But we’re more profiling her because she’s gone in hard on transgender children. Not just sponsoring legislation to block gender-affirming care to them, but going with the urban legend spreading among conservatives that there are kids “identifying as cats”. There’s a level of dedicated bigotry, but embracing that fantasy truly takes it to the next level. Maybe that she’s trying to censor drag performances out of the state, and while she’s at it, to fully test the First Amendment by trying to get Creationism taught in Arkansas schools.
We’re going to keep monitoring her as long as she’s in office, because she’s going to be trying to legislate her version of Jesus into everyone’s life, and legislate against LGBTQ people until they don’t exist.
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