Rep. Tom Tiffany, a Republican congressman, was among many who noticed a paragraph in the state budget, related to artificial insemination, where language about a husband and wife was drastically altered to more “gender-neutral” language.
The paragraph changed "father" to "parent" and "mother" to "parent who gave birth to the child."
The paragraph also crossed out “husband” and “wife” and changed those terms to “spouse.”
In a story explaining the changes, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said the budget bill’s language was altered in recognition of same-sex marriages.
“This isn’t just crazy,” Tiffany wrote on X, “it’s an insult to women who give birth and raise children.”
“Nonsense,” was the reaction from Brett Favre, the former Green Bay Packers quarterback.
The bill’s language didn’t go ignored by the Republican Governors Association, which is led by executive director Sara Craig.
“Being a mother is the greatest privilege I will have in my lifetime, and every mother I know feels the same,” she said in a statement. “If Tony Evers can reduce motherhood to an ‘inseminated person’ then our society is lost."
Gov. Evers is currently serving his second term as governor after narrowly defeating a Republican challenger 50%-49% in 2022.
Donald Trump won the important swing state in November 49%-48% over Kamala Harris.
Steve McConkey, who leads sports ministry 4Winds USA, is also a Wisconsinite. He tells AFN Gov. Evers is pushing an “extreme liberal agenda” on the state, where most of the people don’t support it.
“As a matter of fact, I know a lot of Democrats that feel that he went too far,” McConkey says.
