Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was trending on Twitter again over the weekend, this time along with Satan.
No, she hasn’t pledged allegiance to Lucifer. This was part of her campaigning to end abortion.
Greene made the comments in an interview last week with the controversial right-wing Catholic activist Michael Voris. The “ex-gay” founder of the stridently anti-LGBTQ organization, Church Militant, Voris also the man who gave Milo Yiannopolis a job on his TV channel selling statues of the Virgin Mary.
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According to Greene, women considering an abortion have Satan whispering to them.
“It’s whispered, softly and gently, into your ears and into your soul, and he tells you it’s okay” to get an abortion, she said. In exchange, the prince of darkness promises to deliver to women, “all these dreams that you have in your heart.
“And that’s how Satan sells a sin, and that’s how he sells abortion. He tells a woman that all you have to do is you’re just going to go to this clinic, just going to get it over with, you know,” Greene said.
“And then you’re going to, that guy, he’s going to stay with you, that boyfriend or the guy, whoever he is, he’s going to marry you, sweep you off your feet.”
Marge Greene says when women get abortions, it’s because Satan has whispered in their ears and promised them that if they do it, the guy they are with will marry them. pic.twitter.com/ybQkSJEOOK
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 29, 2022
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In recent months, several Republican states have introduced restrictive abortion laws. Many campaigners believe a Supreme Court challenge to the groundbreaking Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion across the US, is on the cards.
Greene is far from being alone in her beliefs. Last week, a lawmaker in Ohio, when discussing the state’s Human Life Protection Act, made headlines for voicing similar opinions. Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, 70, was asked if she would see young girls denied an abortion if impregnated via rape or incest rape.
Schmidt replied, “’It is a shame that it happens, but there’s an opportunity for that woman, no matter how young or old she is, to make a determination about what she’s going to do to help that life be a productive human being.”
A portion of Greene’s interview first went viral last week. In it, Greene also claimed, “Satan is controlling the [Catholic] Church”. Her proof was the church’s willingness to accept an “illegal invasion” and help settle undocumented migrants.
Those comments earned her a swift and rare rebuke from Bill Donohue, leader of the Catholic League, who said Greene had “slandered the entire Catholic Church … She needs to apologize to Catholics immediately … She is a disgrace.”
Greene responded with a lengthy statement clarifying her remarks, saying she was a “cradle Catholic” who left the church “because I realized that I could not trust the Church leadership to protect my children from pedophiles and that they harbored monsters even in their own ranks.”
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Her comments about Satan and abortion prompted plenty of reactions online.
This is very weirdly specific.
— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@HC_Richardson) April 30, 2022
As a psychiatric social worker who worked in a psyc. hospital in NY for 4 plus years, I can honestly say that people used to be committed for statements like this.
— carol weinert (@clw10990) April 30, 2022
She doesn’t think married women get abortions?
— Helen Kennedy 🌻 (@HelenKennedy) April 29, 2022
Marge has no idea how many married women with families make that painful decision when they learn their fetus has multiple anomalies that will prevent their child from ever living a normal life without tremendous suffering.
— LinHoHi1 (@LinHoHi1) April 29, 2022
With people like Marge proclaiming to be Christians, why would anyone want to be a Christian?
— curt (@casbeataol) April 30, 2022
Satan once whispered to me that I should eat an entire pecan pie. I was powerless to resist.
— Milton Fletcher (@mfletcher530) April 30, 2022
There are many reasons to get an abortion. That’s actually the first time I’ve ever heard that one.
— K.Clark🐈⬛🌊🤷🏼♀️☮️💛💙🇺🇦🌻 (@Myworldagain1) April 29, 2022
I’m a grown a$$ woman and I can safely say that SATAN has never once whispered in my ear. Telling me that the man of my dreams is going to promise me a dream life if I did something with my pregnancies. Who’s in charge of miscarriages? Had a few of those.
— ᵀሡĭʈᵀລ┍ʈ (@TwitTartwif) April 29, 2022
Greene herself had no time for those disputing her version of the world. As her personal twitter account has been permanently suspended because of her repeated attempts to spread Covid misinformation, Greene posted an unapologetic tweet to her federal lawmaker account.
“If you are defending pedophile priests and those who protect them, groomer teachers & Disney LGBTQ propaganda, Drag Queen story time, saying it’s not Satan convincing women to abort their unplanned child, and that children can be mutilated to change their gender, you’re wrong,” she defiantly tweeted on Saturday.
If you are defending pedophile priests and those who protect them, groomer teachers & Disney LGBTQ propaganda, Drag Queen story time, saying it’s not Satan convincing women to abort their unplanned child, and that children can be mutilated to change their gender, you’re wrong.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 30, 2022
Mister P
How many kids has she adopted?
My2CentsWorth
Maybe not any because any child of hers would likely self abort before she could get the chance.
BennyTheHill
I’m wondering why Queerty is not calling out the Roman Catholic Church as Congresswoman Greene is doing.
This is the same Church whose Pope Francis said:
“The Church will never accept nor condone homosexuality which is clearly contrary to the will of God.” (January 12, 2017)
“A woman who procures an abortion is basically paying a hitman – an abortionist – to kill her unborn child.” (June 6, 2019)
BaltoSteve
Awww Benny, pumpkin, there you go trying to distract from the conversation on hand, as if you actually cared about the abuses of the catholic church. See, we don’t buy what you are peddling. Because if we were, we wouldn’t know that, just as easily as you were able to google Pope Francis quotes, you could google Queerty with the tag “catholic.” And all these articles about the Catholic Church will be there. It’s fun that you tried to change your brand, too bad it’s just as ineffectual as before.
Den
A couple of things here, and I will make it as simple as possible since you demonstrate yet again how stupid you are.
This article is specifically about MTG, and a rather dull and superstition based statement she made. It is not about the failures of the Catholic church, but obviously this was too difficult for you to understand.
Queerty has not hesitated to call out the hypocrisy of the Catholic church as well as all the other Christian sects which are similar in their actions in protecting abusive clerics. I guess you have memory issues as well as low intellect and a tendency to lie. Really not surprising.
Finally (and amusingly) googling the quotes you attribute to Francis brings up a few references to MTG, but none to the pope. Here is one of his more specific quotes regarding homosexuality:
From Sept, 2013- “A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person. Here we enter into the mystery of the human being.”
From March 2015:
Francis said in an interview that the church could be open to same-sex civil unions, a view he had first voiced as archbishop of Buenos Aires. The pope reiterated the church’s teaching that a “marriage is between a man and a woman” but argued that on civil unions, “we have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety.”
Your stupidity and mendacity are so deep, I have to assume they cause physical pain! (you’ll probably need to look up mendacity, so ask your mythic boyfriend what a dictionary is and how to use it).
Creamsicle
I wonder why you keep visiting a blog that you hate so much.
But I’m kind of calling the kettle black, since I hate these posts that are nothing but a few lines and then a script to fetch inflammatory tweets and pretend like a “conversation” happened. It’s just a bunch of randos adding to a cacophonous echo chamber. Nobody is winning. Nobody is losing. It’s just noise on a platform with overblown importance because they got enough celebrity participation.
Then that noise can be repackaged into more dumbed down content like this exact post. Rinse, repeat, retween 3000 times all over the Internet on platforms like queerty, boredpanda, and a whole industry of clickbait with no journalistic substance masquerading as a national dialogue.
All to sell clicks and ad revenue while we pretend like the USD wasn’t massively inflated by corporate welfare in 2020.
mailliw110
You wonder why someone wrote this instead of what you wanted to read? Maybe start your own blog. I hear Truth Social is available….but probably not for long.
cc423
I wonder if Satan whispered in her ear when she cheated on her husband with several different men a few short years ago…
Kangol2
Seeeee! This right-wing do nothing troll couldn’t even keep her legs closed to other men like a good Christian wife! She might be too stupid to know the Ten Commandments or Christ’s prohibitions about adultery, though. She’s got nothing but gravel between her ears.
Heywood Jablowme
if Satan whispered in MTG’s ear he would hear only an echo in the empty void of her cranium.
okiloki
Marjorie doesn’t believe in helping people. She has certainly never helped any women or babies in her lifetime. She preys on the weak minded and is basically a Satan worshipping jezebel. Another example of the GQP projecting their own sins onto others.
ZzBomb
People who believe this nonsense need a mental evaluation. It’s not healthy to think imaginary friends actually exist when you’re an adult.
jt1990
Lately, Satan has been telling me to vote Democrat this fall. I won’t do it! Nor will I be consuming mushrooms before heading to the polls to cast my vote.
BennyTheHill
jt1990-
Democrat strategist James Carville:
“This November the Republicans will wipe the floor with the Democrats.”
Den
And your point?
Why is it the right wingers always seem to post things that highlight their simple minds and lack of critical intellectual skills?
mailliw110
All these people with voices in their heads. Sounds kind of crazy to me.
Mister P
Sounds like you should stay away from the polls and check in at the state hospital.
BaltoSteve
Considering her words and actions, one wouldn’t necessarily question her knowledge of what Satan would say. By the tenants of the religion she professes to practice, she certainly does his bidding often enough.
jax florida
If there were a Satan and that Satan whispered, they would say “vote for Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
Brian
These people need to be committed. An in-patient institution that heavily medicates them. (Include Amy Coney Barrett, who claims that she can speak languages that have been extinct for thousands of years.)
humble charlie
The verbs in dead languages are especially hard to conjugate.
Josh in OR
Perjury Taylor Greene WOULD know what Satan whispers in the ears of women…: “Do steroids! Do CrossFit until your ability to cognate progressive thunk is dead! Three toes is HOT!”
humble charlie
Even though I don’t believe in god or satan, I find satan very seductive as do most repubelicans.
Just.my.opinion
It is still shocking to me that any human being can be as ignorant as Marjorie Taylor Green. I just didn’t think it was possible – but it is.
Den
Shouldn’t be shocking. We have BennyTheFool who posts here every day. His intellectual skills are every bit as pitiful as hers. And they are equal in their mendacity.
Mack
@Den, you can’t fix stupid and it’s very strong in BennytheHill. He excels in it.
BaltoSteve
@Mack, I would disagree. You can “Fix” stupid, however it would be a violation of their human rights. However, in the case of MTG, she has already whelped out another generation.
GrizzleyMichael
She was that woman’s ear that Satan whisper into
TomG
Since Marjorie Taylor Greene is Satan’s minion like Trump, I am quite sure she knows what Satan whispers.
kish
That last tweet… she really tried to pack in as much fear-mongering bullshit as she could.
johncp56
I,m so sick of this Hateful moose knuckle of human waste
v6origal97
This is such a simplistic and “black and white” religious view of abortion, completely dehumanizing what so many women actually go through, and the agonizing decisions they may make. She boils it down to women who have abortions to become successful or fulfill their desires. That’s so disgusting.
Mack
Perjury Majorie Green seems to have a fixation on Satan. Is he Blond haired, blue-eyes and white like her Faked Jesus?
Rick Notch
Google: marjorie taylor greene, adultery. Satan has had her ear for long time.
gaym50ish
If Satan is promising that the guy who made her pregnant will marry her, what about the 25 percent of MARRIED women who get abortions? What is Satan whispering to them?
CNY1983
every day i care less and less about the republican manson-family values these idiot asswipers pop off about. shes boring and a total moron. now this satan shit? who gives a fig?
scotty
she looks like she does satans hair.