Amid the Washington, D.C., reign of Joe Biden, whose actions often target and try to punish Christians in America on issues he has chosen as his primary focal points, like abortion and transgenderism, the new House speaker bluntly has put himself in the opposition.
Rep. Mike Johnson, newly elected to the speaker’s post after Rep. Kevin McCarthy was removed, said, “Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it – that’s my worldview. That’s what I believe, so I do not apologize for it.”
He was being interviewed by Fox News’ Sean Hannity, and was questioned about some of his work, and statements, while he was with the Alliance Defense Fund, now Alliance Defending Freedom, years ago.
He then described homosexuality as “sinful behavior” and said there was “no clear right to sodomy in the Constitution,” during a time when it was his responsibility to defend, in court, various state laws regarding those lifestyle choices.
He also said, “I also genuinely love all people regardless of their lifestyle choices. This is not about the people themselves. I am a Bible-believing Christian.”
A report in the Daily Mail said he explained, about his work to protect traditional marriage in America, a fight that took a severe hit during the Barack Obama administration when the Supreme Court decided in a decision that has been described as unconnected to the Constitution, to create the status of same-sex “marriage” for the nation.
That decision was made during a time when several extremists in the LGBT ideology were on the court. They are now gone, and there has been speculation that that decision at some point will be revisited, as the abortion precedent was last year when the Dobbs decision threw out the nearly 50-year-old Roe precedent.
Johnson said, “I was a litigator that was called upon to defend the state marriage amendments.”
In fact, voters in more than 30 states voted to amend state constitutions to protect traditional marriage.
“I was a religious liberty defense and was called to defend those cases in the courts.”
At the time, he wrote, “‘Homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural and, the studies clearly show, are ultimately harmful and costly for everyone.”
He also wrote, at the time, “Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do. This is a free country, but we don’t give special protections for every person’s bizarre choices.”
Johnson won unanimous GOP support to be speaker.
Before moving into politics, he was partner at Kitchens Law Firm and a chief counsel for the nonprofit firm Freedom Guard.
The report noted, “Johnson described his legal career as focusing on ‘defending religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and biblical values, including the defense of traditional marriage, and other ideals like these when they’ve been under assault.'”
He also raised questions about the failures of the 2020 election results and was a member of the team defending President Trump from Nancy Pelosi’s two failed impeach-and-remove schemes against him.
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