{"id":1506177,"date":"2022-06-07T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506177"},"modified":"2022-06-07T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:22:46","slug":"defeating-this-gender-bending-republican-will-help-protect-american-women-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defeating-this-gender-bending-republican-will-help-protect-american-women-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeating This Gender-Bending Republican Will Help Protect American Women Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefeating-this-gender-bending-republican-will-help-protect-american-women-nationwide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vote-e1654187855605.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this story before: Leftist elites push a radical and damaging change on society. Pro-family conservatives object and try to fight back in politics. Leftists accuse conservatives of starting a \u201cculture war.\u201d Finally, Republicans surrender in the name of \u201ccompromise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over and over again, this process has played out, to the point where many in the pro-family movement have despaired of ending the cycle. But it doesn\u2019t have to be this way. There is a simple solution to this problem: we must make Republicans fear us again by getting involved directly in elections.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the goal of my organization, American Principles Project PAC, which just launched a six-figure ad campaign to defeat surrender-minded GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., in her primary on June 14. We\u2019ll be delivering <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/approject\/status\/1531642747551096832?s=20&#038;t=dJ47LmDEbq-244b-YNSasg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital ads like this one<\/a> directly to voters in order to educate them about Mace\u2019s dangerous record as an advocate of capitulating to the transgender agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, along with 22 other House Republicans, Mace signed on to the erroneously named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1440\/cosponsors#withdrawnCosponsorsToggle\">\u201cFairness for All\u201d Act<\/a> (FFA), a GOP-led bill that supposedly seeks to draw a truce between religious conservatives and the woke left\u2019s demands on gender ideology. But the so-called compromise, unsurprisingly, is really just a wave of the white flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Surrendering to Trans Ideology<\/h2>\n<p>FFA would add \u201csexual orientation and gender identity\u201d to the Civil Rights Act, unleashing the federal government to punish objectors to leftist gender ideology as it does race discriminators. It mandates that nearly all institutions, public and private, allow men who claim a female identity into women\u2019s activities and private spaces. The few exemptions it contains are restricted mostly to churches and explicitly religious organizations, and its conscience \u201cprotections\u201d are absurdly vague \u2014 FFA leaves it to activist judges, for example, to decide if a doctor\u2019s refusal to perform a sex change on a child constitutes illegal \u201cdiscrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, FFA seemed to have some momentum. Rumors were swirling around Capitol Hill that a Republican might even introduce it in the Senate. But fortunately, things have begun to change since then. <\/p>\n<p>The conservative movement united in opposition. Academics such as Professor Robert George of Princeton University and Ryan Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, savaged the bill\u2019s legal flaws. Organizations including the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, and Concerned Women for America detailed some of the bill\u2019s most ridiculous impacts, highlighting the importance of Republican lawmakers opposing the bill.<\/p>\n<p>FFA is now rapidly losing its existing support in the House. Of the 23 Republicans who previously signed on to the bill, two have already left Congress, two have announced they aren\u2019t running for re-election, and an additional four \u2014 Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., Rep. Chris Jacobs, R-N.Y., and Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. \u2014 have bravely pulled their support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Unpopular Policy<\/h2>\n<p>Much of this has to do with the political environment. After a slew of national news stories demonstrating the disastrous consequences of policies that allow men in women\u2019s sports, changing rooms, and bathrooms \u2014 and an uprising among parents against radical gender ideology in schools, especially after a highly publicized sexual assault that took place due to a transgender bathroom policy in Loudoun County, Virginia \u2014 support for the bill started to look bad for Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>FFA would have mandated all these policies and more nationwide. <a href=\"https:\/\/americanprinciplesproject.org\/media\/new-app-poll-swing-state-voters-strongly-oppose-transgender-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polling from our organization<\/a> and others have shown that voters as a whole, including Democrats and independents, absolutely hate that idea.<\/p>\n<p>Still, some sponsors, such as Mace and Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., remain sponsors of the legislation. It\u2019s hard to know exactly why. Perhaps it\u2019s legislative incompetence \u2014 maybe they have no idea what the bill would do. Perhaps it\u2019s a complete ignorance of or disregard for the opinions of their constituents. <\/p>\n<p>But in Mace\u2019s case, the most likely explanation is that she has truly bought into leftist gender ideology. She has been outspoken in her defense of the bill, essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/exclusive-rep-nancy-mace-on-why-she-supports-lgbt-rights-religious-liberty-compromise-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describing<\/a> it as a common-sense requirement of basic justice.<\/p>\n<h2>Betraying the Pro-Family Movement<\/h2>\n<p>Our strategy here is simple. We want to replace Mace with a stronger Republican, and her primary challenger Katie Arrington, who signed American Principles Project\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/bigfamilypledge.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big Family Pledge<\/a>, would certainly be an upgrade. <\/p>\n<p>But we also hope to do more than just remove a subpar legislator from Congress. We\u2019re trying to demonstrate that there are political consequences to betraying the pro-family movement. We aim to show other weak-kneed politicians that these mealy-mouthed capitulation tactics don\u2019t work, and may even cost them their seats.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians, especially those whose sympathies naturally lie with the left, often don\u2019t change their tune due to a genuine change of heart. They change because they think they\u2019ll be punished at the ballot box if they don\u2019t. If we want Republicans to stop surrendering to the woke left on all sorts of issues, we\u2019ve got to show there are serious consequences for doing so. Defeating Nancy Mace on June 14 \u2014 and obtaining an important scalp for the pro-family movement \u2014 would be a good first step.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Terry Schilling is the president of American Principles Project PAC. Follow him on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schilling1776\">@Schilling1776<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this story before: Leftist elites push a radical and damaging change on society. Pro-family conservatives object and try to fight back in politics. 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