In a speech at the Wisconsin Republican convention over the weekend, Rep. Glenn Grothman — no stranger to bizarre and offensive remarks — mocked Democratic support for transgender rights by citing a character in the T.V. show “M*A*S*H” who often dressed in women’s clothing in an attempt to be discharged from the Army.
Grothman closed his convention remarks by discussing “what is becoming of America right now” because “a lot of us see America changing a lot.” He read an excerpt from Charles Murray’s book “Coming Apart” that discusses a 1962 poll in which 86 percent of women said that they would not have premarital sex with someone they were going to marry.
This led him to transgender rights issues.
“Remember there was a show ‘M*A*S*H’ a while ago in which some, you know, one of the comedy guys was wearing a dress?” he said. “Hillary Clinton says one of the goals is to get the transgenders into the military. That’s one of the goals.”
Grothman concluded that “we do have a moral decline in our country,” adding that he prayed that the U.S. would “regain the moral bearings that we should have so that God continues to bless our great country.”
