House Stenographer Explains Her Freemason-Themed Outburs
Source: Slate
Dianne Reidy, the stenographer who provided a fittingly bizarre coda to the shutdown with her rant about how the Freemasons wrote the Constitution, offered up an explanation yesterday for why she decided to begin yelling on the House floor in the first place: God told her to.
"For the past 2 and 1/2 weeks, the Holy Spirit has been waking me up in the middle of the night and preparing me (through my reluctance and doubt) to deliver a message in the House Chamber," she told Fox News' Chad Pergram in an email yesterday. "That is what I did last night.
Reidy's husband, Dan, told a similar story to the New York Post. "Two weeks, waking up in the middle of the night," he told the paper. "Shes like, I cant sleep, Gods got me in the work."
After being dragged from the House floor mid-rant, Dianne Reidy was taken to George Washington Hospital, where she was interviewed by a psychiatrist before being released. "The doctor was asking what was the message, what was the intent of the message? her husband said. "She goes: 'I dont know I just spoke what I felt God was putting in my heart. I dont know who it was directed at'."
Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/18/house_stenographer_explains_her_freemason_themed_outburst.html
Well, thanks for clearing that up...
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)Is that the best story they could come up with? Really, do they think anyone except for the most gullible will believe that?
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)Mix a little common mental illness with nutty beliefs and obsession with said nutty beliefs, and this is exactly the sort of thing that comes out.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)It would be grand if we could keep all like this off the House floor.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)then how would they be able to achieve a quorum?
Indi Guy
(3,992 posts)Randomthought
(837 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)kardonb
(777 posts)Only if you are gullible enough . She saw her chance of 10 seconds of fame , and took advantage of a public forum .
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)I still haven't heard a point other than the freemason constitution thingy...
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Now back to you Jim
xocet
(3,872 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)She's nuts.
Scairp
(2,749 posts)This has zero to do with religious freedom; she claims a disembodied voice that she decided is "god" told her to flip her lid at her job on the floor of the House and after telling a psychiatrist that story they just let her go home? She should have been admitted for at least a couple of days for an evaluation. She made a scene like that under the circumstances and they think she's good to go? I'm not understanding that at all.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Sometimes a relative can help someone get put on a 72 hour, or if a crime has been committed, but if she was functioning, however oddly, it's hard to do.
valerief
(53,235 posts)marshall
(6,665 posts)Hopefully the glitches will be fixed soon so people like this can get the help they need.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)That you are 100% correct in your assessment!
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)Something may rub-off...
True story.
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)To call her up and sing 'liar liar pants on fire'.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)more than anyone else. As often as they hammer at the lies over the airwaves, it's not a surprise they think the noise in their head while they sleep is God's.
brer cat
(24,605 posts)He tells me to go to the bathroom and pee. Thank goodness he never told me to do that in the House chamber.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)Nevermind I thought I was in The Lounge.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)We're lucky to have a potty chair... somewhere...
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)gabeana
(3,166 posts)and he wrote a book
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Is she Catholic? The Catholic Church is anti-Free-Mason, but at least my strongly, strongly protestant family wasn't. Some of my family even belonged to the Masons.
So, somewhere she got the idea that God and the Free Masons are or were opposed.
Masons were craftsmen and mathematicians. Some of them built cathedrals. Why would God care whether Free Masons wrote the Constitution? They were enlightened people. Some sort of confusion and anxiety in her mind caused her dreams.
But she is right. Many of our founding Father were Free Masons.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)For those who speak in the language of New World Order woo
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Jews. That's just more nonsense.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)If the woman is inclined to believe in such things (which is usually the case when people start ranting about masons in government)
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I didn't think you believed that. So, I understand you may have misunderstood what was behind my post. I agree with you.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)she HAS to wear skirts past her knees and buttoned up to her neck every day...
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)....knows theres a time and a place. She knew her outburst was the wrong time and place... "reluctance and doubt"....yet did so convinced by the "spirit" talking to her. Yea, shes a hardcore bible-thumper...and thats the kind of stuff that comes out when you have a mental breakdown. The right will view her as a hero....she should get help...and hopefully she gets a job elsewhere, before the spirit tells her to use a weapon next time.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)she was wearing a hijab? Oh, wait. She wouldn't have been allowed in the door. Crazy comes in all varieties, but the only crazy allowed within our hallowed halls are the Xian ones (by the boatload.) And I predict we'll be seeing more and more of this if we don't nip it real soon.
Delphinus
(11,840 posts)that didn't even occur to me.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)the speaking in tongues is God speaking through them literally....I called that as soon as she popped up...I recognized the demeanor of a Pentecostal.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)"Speaking in tongues" = "Can't drink beer so I'll get fucked up some other socially approved way"
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)But I guess not.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)CarrieLynne
(497 posts)sorry but anyone that really thinks god is talking to them needs meds...seriously....
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Pentecostals believe in speaking in tongues....if you have never seen that I HIGHLY recommend you try to Google for it...CRAZY entertaining....and this gibberish that comes out of their mouths is supposedly the HOLY SPIRIT! They are totally into laying on of hands....many do not believe in medical intervention. Women are property of their fathers and husbands and must dress covered up from neck to past knees...
There used to be a couple on late at night that did the babbling speaking in tongues on TV...she was like a Crypt Keeper version of Tammy Faye Baker on Crack...with PINK poodle puffy hair!
My grandmother married one...when she went to his church...men all sat on one side of the room and women on the other...marrieds did not sit together. My grandmother did not like THAT at all and she never went back to his church again. He was welcome to go to hers and that is what they did....but she wasn't putting up with that sexist Pentecostal stuff! THAT'S how bad it is....
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Used to love to come home with half a buzz and turn those two one for about 30 minutes to laugh my ass off! The pink hair was TOO much!
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I grew up surrounded by them. It's damn scary in person.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)But if you want to shake up those greedy bastards in Congress, expect them to change.....going to need/do something a bit more drastic. Maybe a lightning strike on the speakers seat or something like that.
CarrieLynne
(497 posts)I have a friend who says her grandpa was one...she said its a group that protects the secrets of Jesus...mainly that he was married.....
i dont get it...
atreides1
(16,093 posts)JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)What else can I say?
handmade34
(22,757 posts)from the likes of Michelle Bachman and other representatives
"...today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, Im a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in Gods end times history."
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)That's what Ted Cruz's dad is too..
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)after wrapping her mouth around the Weiner. She'll have to stick to her day job.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)She's been Weinered.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Great minds think a like.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Hope it does things for ya.
cntrygrl
(356 posts)so many captions I can think of for those pictures but I'll be good and keep them to myself.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)OK, yes I am groveling, please share.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)It's always some old testament outburst about how we are all 'sinners'. Almost like Jesus never happened....
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Skeeter Barnes
(994 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Otherwise, you grab the reins of reality and hang on for the ride.
sendero
(28,552 posts)... "god told me to do it". There is a fine line between stupid and insane.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)handmade34
(22,757 posts)seem to be 2 ways of looking at the outburst by the House Stenographer the other night... many here are critical, making fun, etc... and then others here see it as mental illness and believe we should be mindful of the need to help those afflicted
We don't really know in the case of the Stenographer... but, I think, therein lies the problem... what is the dividing line between religious zealousness and mental illness especially considering that we have so many political figures spouting the same kind of religious sentiments that this woman did...
scary stuff to ponder in the 21st... indeed
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)it is scary stuff to ponder in the 21st.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)They do that stuff all the time....its part of their dogma...they believe in speaking in tongues and that God literally and regularly speak through them. These are the original Holy Rollers and who the term was invented to describe. They shall we say "carry on" at their services....Some small bands of them handle snakes! They don't really believe in modern medicine...they pray on you and "lay hands on" to cure the sick....
Her outburst is totally normal to them.
we can do it
(12,193 posts)Waving arms, spewing jibberish fucking wackos
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)we can do it
(12,193 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)that pointed me in the right direction
But God or Freemason's, no
Now if you plug me into the energy in the Capitol
and pay my health care and make me listen to
435 dueling egos for a few years ....
freshwest
(53,661 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)and yes Mental Illness is an issue that must be addressed.
Why are there so many religious zealots that appear to be mentally ill in congress?
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)totally normal..to them...
louis-t
(23,297 posts)Or it was that turkey chili you ate before retiring. Just sayin'.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)Just curious. In the age of video cameras, one would think a stenographer would be as obsolete as a town crier.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I guess because of longtime tradition and nothing else...
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)why does a House Stenographer make 126K/year?
Talk about Dang Gubmint Waste!
Laelth
(32,017 posts)A video simply will not do.
I have to be able to refer to the proceedings by date, page number, paragraph, and line. Can't do that with a video.
-Laelth
Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)I was a secretary/stenographer in the Army, so I do respect the profession. When I was training my replacement prior to returning to the states from Vietnam, it broke my heart to see him enter the colonel's office with a tape recorder. Gregg Diamond Jubilee Shorthand was plenty good enough for me!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)blessings to her life for telling it as she sees it.
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Or Joan of Arc, or Bernadette of Lourdes. God spoke to them & told them to act. Were they all mentally ill, sufferring from manic delusions?
I say probably.
BTW, she wasn't wrong. Freemasons did write our Constitution, and we are NOT onenationundergod, that was added later. Much later, in 1948.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Benjamin Franklin was one. Several others may have been, depending on which sources you read.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)I got a kick out of her bum rushing the House dias and her fundy rant on the Founding Fathers.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Gin
(7,212 posts)Hubby is probably ticked she blew a good job.
DaveJ
(5,023 posts)Job ability should be based on more objective criteria.
It would be a better world if people were free to act wildly now and again without serious repercussions.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)crim son
(27,464 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)tanyev
(42,610 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)but she sure got God's message out there - we're all talking about it!
penndragon69
(788 posts)Teabagger bullshit !
tabasco
(22,974 posts)She's a kook.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)These types are going to be death of America.
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)based on schizophrenia causing here to hear voices. Happens more than you might think. The truly insane hear voices from external sources like electrical outlets. Voices in the head are another story.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)I might get up and rant too!
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)She'll get her full salary for a while and if she can't return because of the voices she'll be terminated. Since she hears voices, her transcripts may contain information from the voices, and as such, unreliable. I imagine SSD is about $2400 a month now.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)to survive with just 770 a month from SSD.
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)how much is put into the system. The max to a claimant is about $2400.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)...in her head. Did any doctor or police person ask if she or her husband own a gun?
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Greetings. I have a few words from God that you need to listen to.
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)need to haul her away to a padded room.
Socal31
(2,484 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)As good a place to begin the discussion of mental healthcare in this country as any.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... this sounds like a cousin of "speaking-in-tongues", which back-in-the-day was frowned upon, even among the faithful. Question is... are they going to let her back in the well of the House as a stenographer?
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)and praising the glory of her god Ted Cruz.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)to relay his wisdom rather than have her write it down.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)NoodleyAppendage
(4,619 posts)Sounds like textbook bipolar disorder to me.
J
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)she believes that. - Gifts of prophesy, messages from God, being led by the Holy Spirit to reveal some great truth - these are normal notions in that micro-world