Donald Trump's Army secretary nominee isn't going to take people quoting him sitting down. He's on to the liberal left’s shady scheme of using his own words as some sort of gauge for his beliefs. Nolan McCaskill of Politico writes:
“The liberal left has cut and spliced my words about terrorism and ISIS blatantly falsifying what I've said,” Dr. Mark Green, a Tennessee state senator, wrote in a Facebook post early Tuesday. [...]
The [New York] Times noted that Green has a history of controversial statements regarding LGBT rights, including telling the Chattanooga Tea Party at an event last year that “if you poll the psychiatrists, they’re going to tell you that transgender is a disease.”
Good god, it's worse than fake news, this idea of people taking your quotes at face value. "I have never and will never force my religion on anyone," Green wrote on Facebook, linking to a post claiming “Homosexual activists” were targeting him “because he’s Christian.” Green added, "I have never considered myself a judge of anyone."
LGBTQ activist Joe Jervis responded to Green with an un-spliced quote from his appearance last year on "The Hotwash with CJ and Alex":
“The government exists to honor those people who live honorably, who do good things ― to reward people who behave well and to crush evil. 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." —Mark Green, pushing his religion on others in rant calling transgender Americans "evil." That's the verbatim quote, widely available on tape. Where's the lie, Sen. Green?
Clearly, LGBTQ activists who oppose Green's nomination are taking things out of context. Or, as a spokesperson for the pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign suggested, perhaps he’s just “a master of irony.” Heh. Now, that’s worth at least a style point or two.