Stenographer: Holy Spirit moved me

The House stenographer that took over a microphone and began shouting in the House chamber Wednesday night told a Fox News reporter that the Holy Spirit compelled her to do it.

“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,” stenographer Dianne Foster Reidy told Fox News’s Chad Pergram in a written statement. “That is what I did last night.”


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As members of the House were voting on the funding bill that would reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling last night, Reidy began shouting into a microphone near the House speaker’s chair, leading to her removal.

“He will not be mocked. He will not be mocked – don’t touch me – he will not be mocked,” she said Wednesday night. “The greatest deception here is this is not one nation under God. It never was…the Constitution would not have been written by the Freemasons. They go against God.”

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