Will & Grace actor Leigh-Allyn Baker among anti-maskers at school board meeting

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Leigh-Allyn Baker, an actor best known for her appearances in Will & Grace, was among a group of protestors challenging mask mandates for schools in Tennessee.

During a school board meeting that lasted nearly four hours, Baker was one of many who argued against school children having to wear masks inside classrooms.

In a lengthy speech, the Good Luck Charlie actor claimed her two children were “vaccine injured” and they would not be wearing masks because “their brain needs oxygen to grow, which the neurologists can confirm.”.

She went on: “Anyway, the real part of the clown show is that you all think that you actually have the authority to mandate this. Because there are these books that I have, and I have them as a gift for you: the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers. Also, the Bible.”

“And these guarantee my freedom and yours and our children’s to breathe oxygen,” she said.

Baker also called herself a “California refugee” and says she “gave up a really successful Hollywood career for freedom and to come to this friendly place of Tennessee.”

The mask requirement is enforced from Thursday (12 August) and runs until 21 September and covers all students, staff and visitors at elementary grade levels inside all buildings and on school buses.