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Marjorie Taylor Greene says marriage equality proves Democrats “turned their back on God”

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a rally
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) denounced marriage equality as a sign that Democrats have “turned their backs on God.”

She then made comments about how 9/11 proves that an aircraft crashing isn’t dangerous for people on the ground.

“The truth is being canceled, it’s being attacked like never before,” Greene told the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, delivering the keynote speech at the group’s Lincoln Day Dinner on February 11. “And if you don’t love the truth, then you don’t love God.”

She said that “these people in Washington” – a group that includes herself – have “turned their back on the truth and they turned their back on God.”

She then said that House Democrats voted twice to pass a bill legalizing murdering babies “up until the date of birth” as a sign of Democrats turning their backs on God.

“They passed a bill to make it a federal law to protect gay marriage,” Greene then complained. “Marriage is between a man and a woman, and that’s between God and a man and a woman.”

She was referring to the Respect for Marriage Act, which will protect some rights to same-sex marriage if the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell v. Hodges. The bill was passed last year and Greene voted against it.

At the time, she shared an argument on Twitter that said the bill has nothing to do with same-sex marriage.

At the same event, Greene used 9/11 as an example of how large, airborne objects can crash without hurting anyone on the ground.

She was discussing the spy balloon that floated over North America two weeks ago and was shot down when it was off the coast of South Carolina on February 4. The Department of Defense said they didn’t shoot it down over land because they were worried it could hurt people when it crashed.

“Do you know what a bunch of bullsh*t that is?” she asked the audience.

“Do you guys remember on 9/11 when an airplane crashed in Pennsylvania?” she asked, referring to Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed after passengers attacked the hijackers. “A jetliner. Remember that? It didn’t kill anybody on the ground. Killed everyone on board. But it didn’t kill anyone on the ground.”

Flight 93 nearly hit a school. It was the only one of the four hijacked planes that day that didn’t kill people on the ground. The other three planes killed nearly 3000 people when they crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called for her to be removed from Congress because of her 9/11 comments.

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