Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Protests Too Much

New speaker of the House Mike Johnson once wrote in support of the criminalization of gay sex  —  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has a history of harsh anti-gay language from his time as an attorney for a socially conservative legal group in the mid-2000s.

“Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has a history of harsh anti-gay language from his time as an attorney for a socially conservative legal group in the mid-2000s,” CNN reports.

“In editorials that ran in his local Shreveport, Louisiana, paper, The Times, Johnson called homosexuality an ‘inherently unnatural’ and ‘dangerous lifestyle’ that would lead to legalized pedophilia and possibly even destroy ‘the entire democratic system.'”

“And, in another editorial, he wrote, ‘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.'”

So a "creed" is not something one does or chooses, but "what you are", whereas homosexuality is a bizarre choice. Interesting. I wonder when & where Mike made his "choice". Other interesting choices he's made.

[Excerpt from Political Wire.]

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