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Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow blasts colleague Lana Theis on Senate floor in viral speech
Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, decried a political attack from Lana Theis, R-Brighton, who claimed McMorrow supports sexually grooming kids
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It started with a prayer, but the fight escalated quickly.
By Tuesday morning, a state lawmaker took to the Senate floor to defend herself against a completely unfounded allegation from another legislator that she wants to "groom and sexualize kindergartners."
State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, decried the political attack by Sen. Lana Theis, a Brighton Republican who made the accusation in a recent campaign fundraising email without providing any evidence to support it.
"I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme. Because you can't claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of 'parental rights' if another parent is standing up to say no," McMorrow said, at times peering over toward Theis.
"You say, 'She's a groomer. She supports pedophilia. She wants children to believe that they were responsible for slavery and to feel bad about themselves because they're white.'"
McMorrow is referencing portions of Theis' campaign material, shared publicly by Michigan Advance and others. A "groomer" is someone who establishes a connection with a child in an effort to ultimately exploit or physically abuse that child.
Theis, who's attempting to fend off a primary challenger, filled the campaign email with red meat for conservatives — its sweeping language suggests "our children are under assault in our schools" from the likes of "gender-bending indoctrination" and "race-based education."
She did not provide any evidence for any of these accusations but did personally attack McMorrow.
“These are the people we are up against. Progressive social media trolls like Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-Snowflake) who are outraged they can’t teach can’t groom and sexualize kindergartners or that 8-year-olds are responsible for slavery," the material states.
Theis, who's attempting to fend off a primary challenger, filled the campaign email with red meat for conservatives — its sweeping language suggests "our children are under assault in our schools" from the likes of "gender-bending indoctrination" and "race-based education."
She did not provide any evidence for any of these accusations but did personally attack McMorrow.
“These are the people we are up against. Progressive social media trolls like Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-Snowflake) who are outraged they can’t teach can’t groom and sexualize kindergartners or that 8-year-olds are responsible for slavery," the material states.
Theis' words, and more broadly her decision to evoke issues roiling communities across the nation, have prompted a simmering feud. As McMorrow argued in her speech Tuesday, Theis' accusations are rooted in a broader national campaign to use highly polarized and oft-misunderstood concepts like Critical Race Theory to attack the LGBTQ community and others while painting critics as villains.
"I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism somehow means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense," McMorrow said.
"No child alive today is responsible for slavery. No one in this room is responsible for slavery. But each and every single one of us bears responsibility for writing the next chapter of history ... we are not responsible for the past. We also cannot change the past. We can't pretend that it didn't happen, or deny people their very right to exist."
I know this is long, and violates the rules on this forum. Thus I fully expect my thread to be closed, or move to another forum to allow some of the members to attack this speech or to go off topic with foolish cartoons or vulgar and vile attacks on me and the Senator.