By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--May 8, 2017
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And it wasn't just Democrats taking issue with Green's nomination to the Army's top civilian post. In an interview with USA Today, Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he found a "broad variety" of Green's comments "very concerning." When asked by USA Today which comments he found most troubling, McCain said comments "concerning the Muslim faith, concerning the LGBT community." Controversy surrounding Green's anti-LGBTQ record gained traction when advocacy group GLAAD unearthed audio from Green's appearance on the online radio show "Hotwash With CJ and Alex" in 2016. In it, Green seems to compare transgender people to ISIS militants. "The government exists to honor those people who live honorable who do good things — to reward people who behave well and to crush evil," Green said in the interview. "So that means as a state senator, my responsibility very clearly in Romans 13 is to create an environment where people who do right are rewarded and the people who do wrong are crushed. Evil is crushed. So I'm going to protect women in their bathrooms, and I'm going to protect our state against potential infiltration from the Syrian ISIS people in the refugee program."
Green recently took to Facebook to push back against what he says is a purposeful attempt from the left to misrepresent his words. "The liberal left has cut and spliced my words about terrorism and ISIS blatantly falsifying what I've said. Let me be very clear," the post reads before continuing into an enumerated list, "I believe that every American has a right to defend their country regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion. It's the radical left that won't allow the latter."The narrative here is that Green "compared transgender people to ISIS." He did not. He said he believes in protecting the innocent, regardless of where the threat comes from - ISIS or some weirdo walking in on you in the bathroom. As Green demonstrates in his quote at the end of the excerpt, perfectly innocuous things he said were twisted beyond all recognition to make him look like some sort of fanatic. But why was Green a target in the first place? To understand that, you need to check the following report from CNN. Narrating the piece as if it's a simple straight news report, CNN excioriates Green simply for believing basic tenets of the Christian faith. And how they present this is nothing short of astonishing:
Democrats and LGBT groups have slammed Green over his previous comments on LGBT issues, which included saying: "If you poll the psychiatrists, they're going to tell you that transgender is a disease." He's also been criticized by Muslim groups for comments about not teaching "the pillars of Islam" in public schools. On Monday, CNN reported Green is a self-identified creationist who delivered a lecture arguing against the theory of evolution. Green defended himself against the criticism in a Facebook post last week, charging that the "liberal left has cut and spliced my words about terrorism and ISIS, blatantly falsifying what I've said."
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