A public spat between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Catholic Church leadership is emerging over her criticism of church leadership’s support for illegal immigration.
Catholic League President Bill Donohue wrote a letter to the House Ethics Committee, calling for Greene to be “sanctioned” after both sides dug in and refused to apologize for their remarks.
“I asked for an apology, and she publicly said there would be none,” Donohue wrote in a letter to committee Chair Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., and Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., the ranking member, taking personal aim at Greene’s political standing. “She responded by saying that her sweeping condemnation of the entire Catholic Church was meant only to apply to the bishops, as if that makes her hate speech acceptable.”
The letter added, “The time has come for her to be either reprimanded or censured.”
The spat began when Donohue rebuked Greene for criticism of Catholic Church leadership’s support and aid for illegal immigration, which she said is akin to “Satan’s controlling the church.”
“What they’re doing by saying, Oh, we have to love these people and take care of these migrants and love one another. This is loving one another — yes, we are supposed to love one another, but their definition of what ‘love one another’ means destroying our laws,” Greene told Church Militant last week in an interview.
“It means completely perverting what our Constitution says. It means taking unreal advantage of the American taxpayer.”
Donohue denounced Greene’s criticism, writing that she opposed “Catholic Charities assisting illegal aliens.”
“She had plenty of opportunities to make rational criticisms of the agency, but instead she slandered the entire Catholic Church,” Donohue wrote in a statement. “Satan is controlling the Catholic Church? She needs to apologize to Catholics immediately. She is a disgrace.”
Greene shot back at Donohue in a lengthy statement posted to Twitter, saying she is a “cradle Catholic.”
https://www.newsmax.com/us/marjorie-taylor-greene-church-bill-donohue/2022/04/28/id/1067691/
Good for MTG! Give to Cesar what is Cesar’s... obey the laws!
Donohue, who I once admired, has become the “Catholic Abe Foxman.”
Meaning he only represents himself and not the millions of Catholics he claims to defend.
Go, MTG!