LePage Backs Away from Human Rights Act Remarks
10/08/2010 Reported By: A.J. Higgins
http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3478/ItemId/13807/Default.aspxA few months ago when Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage was battling his way to his party's nomination in a seven-way primary, he tapped into the concerns of many Republicans who are worried about the preservation of traditional family values in Maine. LePage called in to an Aroostook County radio show and said there is no place for transgendered students in the state's primary schools and that the Maine Human Rights Act needs to be reformed. The candidate now says he doesn't recall those statements.
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"You know, our children are being used as pawns," he said then. "I just don't understand how people, at least sane people, would want to allow transgender in our primary schools and our high schools."
LePage then pledged to oppose legislation for transgendered students. "If I claim I'm a woman in my philosophy and my thinking, I can play on the girls' hockey team or the girls' basketball team. I think it's absolutely insane, I think it's gone too far and we have to push back. As governor, I would never allow that to be signed into law," he said.
