Marjorie Taylor Greene's Latest Target Denounces 'Homophobic' Insult
Marjorie Taylor Greene for launching a "vile" and "homophobic" attack on her status as a stepmom.During a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Wednesday, Greene said that Weingarten was "not a mother" while questioning her qualifications.
The AFT president said she was "a mother by marriage," while pointing out that her wife was with her at the hearing.The congresswoman said "I see" after Weingarten explained her status, before going to argue that she did not have a valid claim to motherhood because she was not "a biological mother."During an MSNBC interview on Friday, Weingarten, who said that she had been "attacked and villainized" throughout her career "for just trying to stand up for people," denounced Greene for launching what she called a "pathetic" attack intended to "undermine" families and LGBTQ+ people."What she did, it's just this dehumanization that you see autocrats do, and you see people who don't want to solve problems do," Weingarten said. "What's unfortunate is that it's so venal and so mean ...
I can take it, I'm a public figure.""It's just a matter of the undermining of people—the undermining of trans kids, the undermining of the other," she continued. "I felt like I was taking one for the team.
But the vile, homophobic nature of it was pathetic. And the undermining of families was pathetic.""It's just this dehumanization that you see autocrats do...
