Ever have one of those weeks that didn’t go as planned? I mean, really didn’t go as planned? I had one of those last week. A number of things I’ve been managing all became priorities and I’ve been dealing with a chronic neck issue that flared up.
The topper was that as I sat down to write my Friday post, the hosting service I used was unavailable because of an upgrade. They probably sent me an email letting me know I wouldn’t be able to logon and I probably missed it.
Anyway.
So the House finally picked a speaker and it’s Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson?
Who’s Mike Johnson?
Mike Johnson is an evangelical Christian and conservative politician who places his deep faith at the center of his life.
Religious conservatives cheered Johnson’s election Wednesday, after which he brought his Bible to the rostrum before taking the oath of office. “The Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority … each of you, all of us,” he said.
“Someone asked me today in the media, ‘People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue?’” Johnson said Thursday in a Fox News interview. “I said, ’Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.’”
Johnson was formerly an attorney and spokesman (2002 – 2010) for Alliance Defense Fund, known today as Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy group that bills itself as “the world’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights.”
Is Johnson the real deal for Christian conservativs? He sure sounds like it.
The Left is going apoplectic over his election as speaker.
Far left Mother Jones:
Parker, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ rights, was lobbying against Johnson’s bill, titled the “Marriage and Conscience Act” on behalf of queer and progressive state interest groups who saw it as a license to discriminate. But even as he worked at odds with the legislator, he felt Johnson cultivating a friendly relationship with him. Johnson would phone Parker to inform him of plans to promote the bill or speak to reporters about it, and end conversations by calling him his “brother in Christ.” “We communicated constantly, enough that I felt a genuine personal affinity for him while he was doing something that could have been very bad for myself and my community,” Parker, now deputy director of Out Boulder County, says. “That’s when I knew that he was a very talented politician. And I think that’s terrifying.”
Oh noes! Christians who genuinely love me as a person are only “talented” politicians who seduce me into a “friendly relationship”! I’m helpless against their powers of concern for me!
“Speaker Johnson really does provide a near-perfect example of all the different elements of Christian nationalism,” said Andrew Whitehead, a sociologist at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He said those included insisting on traditionalist family structures, “being comfortable with authoritarian social control and doing away with democratic values.”
“Being comfortable with authoritarian social control and doing away with democratic values”? Wow, project much?
Johnson comes with quite a resume. He defended Donald Trump at both of his impeachment hearings, helped plot the Jan. 6 attempted coup, and holds hardline positions on everything from abortion to LGBTQ rights. He worked for the ADF from 2002 until 2010, penning op-eds against marriage equality and endorsing briefs filed by the ADF meant to criminalize sexual activity between consenting adults.
Not conforming with Leftist dogma is holding “hardline postions on everything.”
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, said Johnson would be “the most anti-equality” speaker in U.S. history.
“This is a choice that will be a stain on the record of everyone who voted for him,” Robinson said in a statement Wednesday. “Johnson is someone who doesn’t hesitate to express his disdain for the LGTBQ+ community from the rooftops and then introduces legislation that seeks to erase us from society.”
In a 2016 interview that has recently resurfaced, Johnson contends that “we don’t live in a democracy” because America is a constitutional republic.
“And the founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition on what a civil society is supposed to look like.”
Well, first of all, he’s right — we’re a constitutional republic. This isn’t a question except among the weenies who pretend to journalism. Johnson doesn’t have to “contend” or argue that fact, unless you’re an ignorant mouthpiece for the Democrats who just repeats the literal lie that the U.S. is a “democracy.”
And second, I’d rather live in the civil society that our founders created, as opposed to the one that the cultural Marxists have supplanted us with, having turned a true civil society into a literal shithole experience in places like San Francisco. So I don’t see the problem with his statements.
But of course, ignorant congressmen do. From the same article:
No, you shrill alarmist, Iran is what a theocracy looks like.
So Mike Johnson is charged with being anti-LGTBQ+, anti-abortion, pro-2A, pro-traditional household, pro-Founders, pro-constitutional republic, pro-Trump, pro-prayer, pro-Bible, and a “talented politician.”
Your terms are acceptable. May he live long and honor God.