This summer many were shocked when Michelle Duggar, the matriarch on TLC's reality TV show "19 Kids and Counting," recorded a scathing, fear-mongering, anti-trans robocall urging voters in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to vote against a non-discrimination ordinance. The Duggars don't even live in Fayetteville, which made her involvement even more surprising.Little Joshie is quite proud as well.
"I don’t believe the citizens of Fayetteville would want males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls," Michelle Duggar said in the robocall.
The city council, despite urgings of the Duggars and the religious right, passed the ordinance into law.
Last night, by a 52-48 vote, Fayetteville residents repealed the nascent law.
"It was called the Civil Rights Ordinance, but it was misnamed," local minister Duncan Campbell, the head of the repeal campaign Repeal 119, told 5 News. "It was an ordinance that actually took away civil rights and freedom from people. It criminalized civil behavior."
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The Duggars weren't done fighting after the robocall, however.
The "19 Kids and Counting" family "donated $10,000 toward the campaigns of the three most outspoken opponents to Fayetteville’s new Civil Rights Administration ordinance. The Duggars gave $2,000 to John La Tour, and $4,000 to both Joshua Crawford and Paul Phaenuef," the Fayettevile Flyer reported October 31. "La Tour, Crawford, and Phaneuf have all said they oppose the ordinance and were each listed as contacts on a press release for Repeal 119."
Arkansas Town Infiltrated By Duggar Cash And Robocalls Repeals Anti-Discrimination Law - The New Civil Rights Movement
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