Posted on 10/13/2015 7:04:51 PM PDT by VinL
Twenty-six Republicans, led by presidential candidate Ted Cruz and Rep. Louie Gohmert, have called on the Smithsonian Institution to immediately remove a bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, saying that honoring her "is an outrage."
"Ms. Sanger was an avowed advocate of eugenics and the extermination of groups of people she deemed as 'undesirables," the GOP legislators said in a letter sent Friday to Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery....
"Specifically, Ms. Sanger singled out African Americans, among other minority groups, as deserving to be subjected to such horrific and inhumane treatment," the letter said.
"Honoring a figure who promoted such hatred and deep-seated racism is not only contrary to the values that the exhibit is purporting to promote, but also deeply antithetical to the very values most Americans hold dear."
Both Cruz and Gohmert represent Texas in Congress. Cruz is a first-term senator, while Gohmert has served in the House since 2005.
The letter, signed by 24 other Republicans, follows as similar request sent to the Smithsonian in August by a group of black pastors. The exhibit includes busts of such civil-rights figures as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.
"There is no ambiguity in what Margaret Sanger’s bust represents: hatred, racism, and the destruction of unborn life," Cruz said Tuesday. "Not only should we continue efforts to redirect funds from Planned Parenthood, an organization founded by Sanger that is currently under criminal investigation, we must also work to ensure that her inhumane life’s work is in no way promoted." "Her bust should be removed not only from the exhibit but from the National Portrait Gallery altogether," Gohmert added, "since her legacy is one of prejudice against minorities and widespread destruction of their unborn human lives."
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Go Cruz Go!
Gohmert for speaker of the house!
I don’t think the Progressives will allow the removal as so many of them say their daily incantations to Mother Earth and Mother Sanger!
I second the motion.
She advocated the extermination of black people.
Adolf Hitler got inspiration from her ideas.
She’ll end up on the $10 bill.
Now this is how to play their game. Make them defend the public display and worship of this vile creature.
Love love love this. Ted Cruz rocks.
But, she supports a woman’s right to control their bodies by ripping the heads and arms off of unborn children. Then getting a state subsidy to pay for the procedure — so necessary to promote the economic and social status of American womyn.
BTTT
Sanger and I are from the same hometown. There are no monuments to her there. None.
I agree with both!
Exactly. Cruz knows how to put the dems on defense, like they are constantly doing to us.
Remove on artistic merit.
Issue solved.
PC Smithsonian embraces the culture of death.
They’re absolutely right — which is why Dhimmicraps will double down on supporting her.
They should make the same demands for the removal of the statue of Confederate spy master and proto Nazi freemason Albert Pike that stands in Washington D.C.
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