Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has slammed the Equality Act. Talking on the Steve Bannon’ ‘War Room’ podcast yesterday, Boebert, a fervent guns rights activist and right-wing conservative, took aim at the legislation currently making its way through Congress.
Passed last week in the House of Representatives, the Equality Act will offer federal protections against discrimination for gay, bisexual and trans people. But that’s not how Boebert sees it.
Rep. Lauren Boebert tells Steve Bannon the Equality Act is “supremacy of gays, lesbians and transvestites” pic.twitter.com/j8T2Yx5RxT
— Justin Horowitz (@justinhorowitz_) March 3, 2021
“There is nothing about equality in that act!” Boebert, 34, fumed. “If anything, it’s, the, uh, it’s supremacy of gays, lesbians and” – she then struggles the find the words trans or transgender and instead opts for – “transvestites. This is what this is about, it’s about putting them higher than anyone else!”
Tranvestite and transgender mean different things, with the latter being someone whose gender identity is different to the one they were assigned at birth.
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Boebert went on to say that the Equality Act is not needed as the U.S. Constitution offers equality. She goes on to quote the 14th amendment.
“If you look at the Constitution, that is where equality is kept secure and held sacred. We have the 14th amendment that says that all men are equal under the law. So we need to hold that supreme rather than woke ideology.”
The Constitution’s 14th Amendment was not enough to secure equal rights for women or for Black Americans, which is why the U.S. passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Equality Act seeks to amend that act to extend protections to LGBTQ people.
This is not the first time Boebert has blasted the Equality Act. Last week, when it was being debated on the House floor, Boebert made her opposition clear, using anti-trans tropes that portray trans women and girls as predators.
“Where is the equality in this legislation for the young girls across America who will have to look behind their backs as they change in their school locker rooms just to make sure there isn’t a confused man trying to catch a peek,” she told the House.
The Equality Act passed the House on a vote of 224-206 but faces a tougher challenge getting through the Senate.
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Elected in 2020, since taking office in January, Boebert, like her fellow freshman colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has emerged as one of the more rightwing, Republican lawmakers. Earlier this week she was criticized for appearing to suggest she didn’t know who was now in charge at the “Biden White House.”
It’s March 1, 2021 and most of us still have no idea who is actually running the Biden White House.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) March 1, 2021
Many commentators informed her the clue was in the phrase ‘Biden White House’.
radiooutmike
Not even a high school graduate.
But she is smart enough to use the right’s mantra: Someone else’s equality put them over us.
Vince
She at least got her GED. Well, after failing it 2 times before and right before her election. Bless her ignorant heart.
msfrost
It provides equality, no more no less!
howardmarc
What a sad excuse for a human being. Open up a book, learn. #sad #stupidity
djguapo
She looks like Stu’s wife from the hangover. Somebody needs to tell her off like he did at the end of that movie.
Mister P
I think I could respect her more if she would just say that she wants to discriminate against some people.
msfrost
Indeed
Prax07
I bet one of her exes turned out to be gay or bi and it made her have an undiagnosed stroke. Or she’s just an actual dumb C unt.
Polaro
Well, little Lauren knows about supremacy. Shame she is so very dumb and in congress.
Imjustsaying
She be smart.
jayceecook
Legend has it that every time Boebert opens her mouth the sound of hootin’, hollerin’ and gunfire shakes the very leaves off the trees of the Tongass Forest.
Heywood Jablowme
She saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show and thought it was a documentary. She is trembling with antici… pation at the rise of the transvestites from transsexual Transylvania.
ShiningSex
She’s gross!
sillyme
The only thing she’s right wing about is her nut case store bought insanity and nothing else she says for me is to worry about, sounds like an orange rumpus supporter and is a graduate from Q anon only and can’t get her head out of what’s his names ass to look around for someone to blow sunshine up her ass as it’s being done to rumpster.
missvamp
how do these people get elected. ugh!
JohnnyBoy2
Miss Stupid Redneck thinks not being able to oppress people is oppression for the oppressor.
Hillers
Let’s get “tranzexites” trending on Twitter, y’all!
woodroad34
She’s also afraid that maturity and intelligence will become a supremacy issue over ignorant and unqualified childish representatives like herself.
GayEGO
Transvestites? Lauren is a big dummy, maybe she secretly wants to have an affair with Count Dracula!
HenryHawke
Why, dear god why are we continuing to talk about a member of the House who proves she’s radically il-educated every time she opens her big mouth? Ignore the (rhymes with itch) and let her go on her inane rants in her crazy closet all by herself!
Kevan1
Sh-t that needs to be flushed to the bowels of hell.
mgconlan
The claim that “the Constitution’s 14th Amendment was not enough to secure equal rights for women or for Black Americans” is not quite correct. Brown vs. Board of Education, which ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, preceded the 1964 Civil Rights Act by 10 years. The 14th Amendment gave Congress the power to enforce its provisions through appropriate legislation, which is what the Civil Rights Act did for people of color and women, and which the Equality Act would do for Queer folk. (I can’t stand the term “LGBTQ” and would never use it unless I was quoting someone else. The next time there’s a Pride Parade in San Diego, I want to wear a T-shirt that would read, “I am a Gay Man, Not an ‘LGBTQ+ Person’.”)