“Mama Bear” Marjorie Taylor Greene is Fighting for Our Kids
Guest Opinion by Terri LaPoint
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has a reputation for saying what she means and fighting tenaciously for what she believes in. People tend to love her or hate her. I fall into the former camp – I have a great deal of respect for the petite spitfire of a legislator, even on the rare occasion when I don’t agree with her.
Her visit to Alabama and the Moms for Liberty Fundraising dinner in Huntsville Saturday night created quite a stir, even before she arrived in town. I heard the protesters outside the venue before I saw them, hurling all kinds of angry rhetoric toward her and those of us who came to hear her speak. Security was tight, and appreciated. MTG said this was certainly not the first time she had threats made against her, and it was obvious they would not deter her from her mission.
I was eager to hear her speak, and she did not disappoint. I knew her to be a champion of Constitutional values and parental rights, but I didn’t know the reason she got involved in the fight in the first place. It was fairly recently – in 2018 – that she rather accidentally became an activist. She was a mom and a businesswoman, minding her own business, when the Drag Queen Story hour came to her local library, with very inappropriate material being read to the children in her neighborhood. She went to the City Council, then to a couple local churches right down the street from the library, but no one in any of the groups had the backbone to stand up and fight to protect the innocence of the children. So she did. That was her entry into the political world – just “a pissed-off mom fighting for our kids.”
She’s a woman after my own heart. Like Emily Jones of Moms for Liberty, and Jenny Donnelly of the Her Voice Movement, the thing that moved Marjorie into action was when they came after the kids. And she’s been fighting ever since. Clearly, she is not one to back down when it comes to fighting to protect the kids. It’s about the next generation. She said many young people no longer believe in the American dream. Our politicians in DC have “sold us out.” It’s time for more Americans to push back – to fight for Constitutional, family values, and a sound economy, and I could not agree more.
The Congresswoman’s speech inspired courage and passion for everyone in the room to stand firm in fighting for the kids – our future. Earlier in the night, Moms for Liberty chair Emily Jones likened the fight to that of David versus Goliath. The giants may be big, but our God is bigger.
The windows of the venue were covered with brown paper. Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out the irony that she stood on a stage flanked by two American flags, speaking to a group of conservative parents and grandparents, yet WE were the ones inside a room with blacked out windows, while protestors shouted angry curses at the Moms for Liberty’s exercise of free speech. Ironic, indeed. Yet the room inside was filled with people who are no strangers to standing up for what is right and pushing against the tide for our children to be protected from predators who would sexualize and groom them for their own perverted agenda.
For years many parents have been bullied and intimidated into silence. Leaders like MTG and Emily Jones – Mama Bears – are helping parents to find their voices once again and fight. And that, my friends, is a truly welcome sight.
Terri LaPoint is the President of the Republican Women of Trussville and the author of “Voices That Will Not Be Silenced”, an exposé of the dark underbelly of agencies that are supposed to protect children. An award-winning investigative journalist who has covered hundreds of cases of medical kidnapping, she is passionate about speaking out in support of unjustly separated families. She lives in Odenville, and is on Facebook.
LaPoint is currently a congressional candidate in the Republican primary for District 3, the seat currently held by Mike Rogers. To learn more about her campaign, visit her campaign website, TerriLaPointForCongress.com or follow her on social media.
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