Earlier this week, protesters showed up outside the Indiana Statehouse as legislators debated and heard testimony regarding a possible abortion ban.
As the state Senate convened a special session and took hours of testimony on a bill that would ban all abortions except in cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother, they could hear repeated calls of “let them choose” and “vote them out” from outside the chamber doors.
Indiana is the first legislature to weigh new restrictions on the procedure following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe and revoke a national right to abortion.
Apparently among the small group of anti-abortion rights protesters, aka pro-life protesters, were some Mennonites. And Indianapolis-born stand-up comedienne Megan Gailey found that funny for some reason:
A photo of the anti-abortion crew at the Indiana statehouse today. I wish I was lying.
📸: Leif Ostara pic.twitter.com/1bjhE4sabN
— Megan Gailey (@megangailey) July 26, 2022
Screenshotted, just in case:
She wishes she were lying.
We wish she weren’t a garbage person.
Charming, isn’t she?
1) no, they want babies to live
2) no, and it's not nice to ridicule how people look
3) no.— Ellen ✝️🌸🌼🌺 (@EllenMellen2) July 27, 2022
1) you know that is a lie
2) that's true, but it's kind of cool
3) no, we're here to stay— Jason (@AelwinRothgar) July 27, 2022
Someone as convinced as Megan is that she’s on the side of goodness and righteousness shouldn’t have to stoop to mocking people’s appearance and faith, but here we are.
Calm down
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 27, 2022
Definitely calm down with the bigotry, Megan. It’s just not a good look.
area woman shocked to discover existence of mennonites. https://t.co/hfMVYRAh19
— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) July 27, 2022
Bigots getting bolder. https://t.co/BCza5VvHyb
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) July 27, 2022
It’s helpful when they drop the pretense, at least.
hard to tell whether she herself has no idea about the Indiana Mennonite community, or she's going for social cachet with the NYC media types she knows will have no idea about the Indiana Mennonite community.
Either way, just appalling hurr-durr-ur-ugly bigotry. Unsurprising.
— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) July 27, 2022
What progressives have been reduced to: Mocking Mennonites for having religious beliefs. They're unable to engage intellectually so instead resort to calling people ugly. https://t.co/nLFqIwZB42
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 27, 2022
I'm fairly certain these Mennonites (or Amish) don't want anyone dead, I'm also certain that Megan here would never post a picture of a group of Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs or other religion and make this claim.
Megan's a bigot. Don't be like Megan. https://t.co/EmM8TdVr9U— Joanne Mason (@JoanneMason11) July 28, 2022
You can do much, much better than Megan.
Oh, and for the record:
This is actually the correct response to people killing children for the sake of their own convenience. https://t.co/BCza5VvHyb pic.twitter.com/IkJLg9cDtx
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) July 27, 2022
Yeah, we may not be Mennonites, but we’re definitely with that guy. He’s making the right call on this issue.
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