signed legislation Tuesday prohibiting transgender people from using public school facilities that match their gender identity.
Later that same day, Jason Rapert, a former Arkansas state senator and founder of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, posted a video crediting his organization for the legislation.Rapert, a longtime religious-right activist and ardent Christian nationalist, bragged that this piece of legislation was first proposed by Arkansas school board member David Naylor during an annual NACL meeting, endorsed by the organization, and finally brought to the Arkansas state legislature by state Rep.
Mary Bentley, who serves on the board of the NACL.“The NACL has seven working committees,” Rapert said. “Those committees actually debate and discuss every major policy issue in this country, all from a biblical worldview.”“We make model laws,” he continued. “Do you know that just recently Rep.
Mary Bentley of Arkansas passed a model law that the NACL adopted at their last meeting in the state of Texas?”“Rep. Mary Bentley, [who] is our chair of the National Legislative Council, she went to the Arkansas legislature, took that concept that came from Dr.
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