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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Randy McNally- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-02-22  

On this date in 2020, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” ” first profiled Tennessee State Senator Randy McNally, who serves both District 5 in the State Senate, also currently serves as the Volunteer State’s Lieutenant Governor, and has been floating around the world of Tennessee politics since 1979. McNally cemented his permanent status in his state’s politics in the late 1980s when he assisted the FBI in combating corruption in the Tennessee state legislature as the key figure in the Operation: Rocky Top sting. So we’ll commend him for doing a good thing 30 years ago. Since, however… There are several Republicans who we’ve discussed as having the fanatically insane misconception that there isn’t a guarantee of a separation of church and state guaranteed by the First Amendment, even though the courts have quite specifically ruled on this through the years. Well, while the Tennessee GOP have tried to pass several bills through the years to act like this isn’t the case, Randy McNally took it a step further back in 2013 and actually wanted to make it a crime to protest a violation of the separation of church and state. Which… literally doubles down on theocracy by trying to create a law that is also a First Amendment violation.



If this wasn’t already unsettling enough, McNally wrote the bill to indicate that this would dictate to the federal courts to enforce this law. Which… we had a whole Civil War about what courts dictate to the other, Randy. Get with the program. It probably will come as little surprise, then, that Randy McNally also thinks that Christians are a persecuted minority and are being denied government job nominations because of their religious beliefs being carried out by Democrats, saying, ”I think there is a movement to target people of faith who are being nominated. They want their own, either agnostics or people who are non-Christians. ‘They’ being the Democratic Party.”



McNally has supported some of the most insane bills that have come through the Tennessee legislature in the past decade, including votes in support of welfare drug testing, a vote to try and prevent Syrian refugees from being resettled in Tennessee, a vote to allow students to give “opposing viewpoints” on scientific theories in public school classrooms, (In other words, deny the existence of evolution, or the age of the Earth.) support for stricter Voter ID laws aimed at suppressing the vote, a vote for HJR 587, a resolution against the United Nations Agenda 21 treaty, for fears from hard-right conspiracy theorists that it’s a plot to establish global domination, a bill that would “require the publication of abortion statistics” that also included the addresses of the people performing, and receiving the procedure and a vote for SB 2580, to allow the return of the electric chair as a means of execution in the state of Tennessee. Now, the terrifying part is that Randy McNally is one slip in the tub by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee away from running the Volunteer State. Randy McNally is now 79 years old, and just won re-election in 2022, meaning if he finishes this term, it will be a full four decades he’s served in office.

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