Might be amusing to consider how extreme christian nationalist Mike Johnson, who is the new Speaker of the House, is, but is also appalling how much he ignores the constitution, is a huge bigot, as well as tried to overthrow the last election, which Trump lost. Christian nationalists seem to believe that the goal is to put their religion over the United States constitution (remind you of the Taliban?) and also marginalize ideas and beliefs that don’t go along with their 7 mountains idealogy (like the idealogy for Stonewater Church)
Remember when Ken *Crook* Paxton lodged a lawsuit to try to over throw the results of the 2020 election? And was ultimately shut down by SCOTUS? We do. And Mike Johnson joined him.
Mike Johnson, the Louisiana congressman who was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday after a three-week standoff among Republicans, took the lead in filing a brief in a lawsuit that sought to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win. That claim, widely panned by legal scholars of all ideologies, was quickly thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
After the 2020 election, Johnson also echoed some of the wilder conspiracy theories pushed by then-President Donald Trump to explain away his loss. Then Johnson voted against certifying Biden’s win even after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“You don’t want people who falsely claim the last election was stolen to be in a position of deciding who won the next one,” said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mike Johnson is a criminal accomplice- seeks to blur out faces from Jan 6th EVEN though the DOJ has the unedited video. Guess he just wants to fool the chuckleheads who like edited video.
Speaking of a lack of ethics. He said he was NOT going to vote that grifter George Santos out. Gee, sure makes it look like Republicans LIKE having conmen in office. Luckily enough people voted to kick him out.
Johnson apparently has no ethical requirement to uphold the values of the United States constitution as required by his oath of office.
A Christian nationalist is someone who, like Johnson, believes the United States is a Christian nation and does not believe in what Johnson dismisses as the “so-called ‘separation of church and state.’”
Indeed, Johnson got right to work mixing church and state in his first speech after he won the speakership.
“I believe that scripture, the Bible is very clear: that God is the one that raises up those in authority,” he said from the pulpit — er, the House rostrum. “And I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment.”
Johnson must have been so surprised when God brought together a majority to pass the Respect for Marriage Act last year! He himself voted no, of course, since, as he once opined, “Experts project that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”
Johnson promoted a homophobic, racist book full of conspiracy theories and wrote the forward for it. When that become public, he *unendorsed* the book.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote the foreword and publicly promoted a 2022 book that spread baseless and discredited conspiracy theories and used derogatory homophobic insults.
Written by Scott McKay, a local Louisiana politics blogger, the book, “The Revivalist Manifesto,” gives credence to unfounded conspiracy theories often embraced by the far-right – including the “Pizzagate” hoax, which falsely claimed top Democratic officials were involved in a pedophile ring, among other conspiracies.
The book also propagates baseless and inaccurate claims, implying that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was subjected to blackmail and connected to the disgraced underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Fast forward to 2023, and Johnson is singing a different tune. A spokesman for Johnson told CNN that Johnson didn’t know what he was endorsing. “The Speaker had never read the passages highlighted in the CNN story which he strongly disagrees with,” said the spokesperson. “He wrote the foreword as a favor to a friend, supportive of the general theme of the book but not as an endorsement of all the opinions expressed.”
yuh-huh. That’s why he said on his podcast
Johnson’s endorsement of the book extends beyond the foreword: In 2022, he actively promoted the book on his public social media platforms and even dedicated an episode of his podcast he co-hosts with his wife to hosting McKay.
During the podcast episode, Johnson expressed his belief in the book, stating, “I obviously believe in the product, or I wouldn’t have written the foreword. So I endorse the work.” He also referred to McKay as a “dear friend” and highlighted that the book “really could make some waves.” Over the years, Johnson had written opinion pieces for McKay’s blog, the Hayride, and engaged with the author on public platforms like Facebook.
Mike Johnson is a bigot. Everyone deserves life, liberty and happiness unless you are of the side of the fence where he thinks you don’t. House Speaker Mike Johnson worked on 2014 case seeking to stop a same-sex family adoption, watchdog says
Prior to entering Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson worked as a private lawyer who fought against expanding LGBTQ+ rights, including representing the state of Louisiana as it sought to bar a mother from adopting her wife’s biological son.
As the case moved through the courts, Johnson was one of several attorneys representing Louisiana, according to a new report from progressive watchdog group Accountable.US shared first with USA TODAY.
The case, and others involving LGBTQ+ issues that Johnson worked on, was ultimately declared moot after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.
Among the other cases Johnson was involved in as a private attorney, according to the report: Johnson represented Louisiana in a case defending the state’s same-sex marriage ban and represented the state in another case attempting to bar same-sex couples appearing together on a child’s birth certificate.
And speaking of christian hate, Mike Johnson is trying to fundraise off it.
There are so many sects, denominations and flavors of christians, not to mention other religions as well, and it’s pretty great that Constitution of the United States is not the flawed Bible but instead says
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”—First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
And of course this includes freedom from religion. Remember when President Adams said
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…” U.S. Treaty with Tripoli, 1797
As much as these christian nationalists want to have world domination and force every entity to be their sect of christianity, United States citizens who love their country will do well to not only actively avoid them but speak out about their hate.
