Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline is signaling that he plans to introduce legislation that would require the Daughters of the American Revolution to limit membership to biological women, which is to say, he is trying to get headlines over something that DAR itself says would impact, at most, five trans women who want to join the group, which is congressionally chartered.
Seriously, this is apparently happening.
“The DAR,” Cline said in a statement to, of course, Fox News, because, who else, “has a longstanding tradition of celebrating and empowering women who represent the exceptional heritage of the birth of our Nation. However, as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the organization has now abandoned the very principles on which it was founded.
“Rather than honoring and preserving a lineage-based organization for women, it has embraced radical gender ideology at the expense of the women it was created to serve,” Cline said.
The legislation in question is styled as the Daughters of the American Revolution Membership Integrity Act, which the MAGA congressman said in the statement is “common-sense legislation” that will allow the DAR “to return to serving the true daughters of the American Revolution.”
Oddly, the bill that Cline is pushing here would serve to undermine the wishes of the actual organization in question on the issue; DAR membership voted 1,481-984 at its 135th Continental Congress in Washington, D.C., last month against a measure to keep membership for those “born female.”
When I wrote above that “this is apparently happening,” it doesn’t appear that this stupid bill has actually been introduced yet.
I say that because I can’t find, at this writing, any reference to a bill on that topic or by that name on Cline’s Congress.gov member page.
It’s coming, no doubt, and then it’s going nowhere, because nobody outside of the empty-suited Ben Cline has the time to engage in this level of trivial nonsense.
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Chris Graham
