“A pair of Republican lawmakers in Maine were ruled out of order on Thursday after one of them tried to suggest that a horrific mass shooting last October was God’s retribution for a state bill which expanded abortion access, and the other heartily agreed,” the Daily Beast reports.
“During a debate Wednesday night over a new bill which would extend the right to gender-affirming care to people from out of state, Rep.
Michael Lemelin voiced his trepidation by making a wildly offensive connection between the two discrete incidents.”