Josh Moore (born June 4, 1989) is an American former

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politician from

Merrimack, New Hampshire Merrimack is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 26,632 as of the 2020 census. There are four villages in the town: Merrimack Village (formerly known as Souhegan Village), Thorntons Ferry, Reeds Ferr ...

, serving in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from January 2015 to December 2018. He was born in Gainesville, Florida. As a state representative he represented the Hillsborough County 21st district.

Controversy

In 2015 Moore sponsored a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for women to expose their nipples in the state. It is currently legal in New Hampshire for both genders to be topless in public. The proposed bill makes it a punishable crime for a woman to show her nipple, and it classifies such an act as "lewdness" and "indecent exposure." State Rep. Amanda Bouldin (D) wrote an open Facebook message to Moore, saying that he should scrap the bill or at least exempt new mothers who are breastfeeding. (The bill does have such an exemption.) In his response Moore wrote: "If it's a woman's natural inclination to pull her nipple out in public and you support that," Moore wrote, "than icyou should have no problem with a mans icinclantion icto stare at it and grab it. After all... It's ALL relative and natural, right?" In August 2019, Josh Moore came under controversy again after hosting an event, with his organization, the Patriot Initiative, at the Nashua, New Hampshire library called, "''Addressing the'' LGBT Agenda." In response to this event, which many have labelled as homophobic, many people in Nashua, including Mayor Jim Donchess, organized a counter-protest to the event. In response to these events, website hosting provider for the Patriot Initiative, Eleven2, suspended the Initiative's website for hate speech.

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New Hampshire House of Representatives – State Rep. Josh Moore
Republican Party members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives People from Merrimack, New Hampshire 1989 births Living people 21st-century American politicians {{NewHampshire-politician-stub