Freshman Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) in August was scheduled to deliver a speech titled “The Bible: Equipping the Man of God for Politics and the Culture War,” at Pastor Kevin Swanson’s Bible Family Conference.
NCRM profiled Congressman Johnson on Tuesday in an article titled, “Congressman Tied to Anti-Gay Groups Scheduled to Speak at ‘Kill the Gays’ Pastor’s Conference.”
After an email conversation with Rep. Johnson’s office, his office says he has withdrawn from the conference. As of this writing his name no longer appears on the schedule for Swanson’s conference.
Johnson’s office initially told NCRM that “Congressman Johnson was invited to speak to a Christian conference in August. He was unaware of Mr. Swanson’s participation and of his previous comments. Once this was brought to the congressman’s attention, he immediately denounced those comments and withdrew his participation.”
When NCRM replied, noting there was no record of Rep. Johnson denouncing Swanson’s remarks, Johnson’s office responded: “The Congressman was asked by a friend not associated with Swanson or his organization to join a Bible conference in D.C. Once he learned of Swanson’s connection to the conference he immediately withdrew his participation.”
After NCRM’s article Rep. Johnson’s name was removed from the schedule at Swanson’s Bible Family Conference.
Johnson’s office also told NCRM: “Congressman Johnson believes and has publicly stated many times that all people are made in God’s image, and God calls us to love all and to treat every person with dignity and respect.”
But Congressman Johnson has a long history of working with anti-LGBT hate groups. Before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives he was a senior attorney and the national media spokesman for the Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-gay hate group.
He also was awarded the True Blue Award by another anti-LGBT hate group, Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council.
Rep. Johnson still appears to support the anti-LGBT movement. Last week he posted praise for his “good friend, law school classmate and former colleague, Kyle Duncan, on his confirmation today to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.”
LGBT civil rights group Lambda Legal calls Duncan “a lawyer who has built his career around pursuing extreme positions that target members of the LGBTQ community.”
Speaker Johnson admires and supports Trump and was one of the architects of Trump's plan to stop the certification of the electoral votes and install himself, the loser of the 2020 election. Johnson obviously admires Trump who is facing 91 felony counts and was found liable for raping a woman.
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I suppose it's a good sign that something was too extreme for him to want to be associated with. Though being pleasantly surprised that a Congressman would object to genocide is setting the bar pretty low.
I couldn't resist leaving this joke at WYD:
A guy goes into a bar with a robot bartender. The robot says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini". The robot brings back the drink and says to the man, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "168".
The robot then proceeds to talk about physics and space exploration.
The guy leaves, but he is curious. So he goes back. The robot bartender says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini". The robot makes a martini, and says, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "100."
The robot starts to talk about NASCAR, Bud, and John Deere tractors.
The guy leaves but finds it interesting, so he tries one last time. He goes back, and after bringing the martini, the robot says, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "About 50."
The robot leans in real close and says, "Isn’t it terrible the way Biden stole the election?"
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Fun times.
Well, if Johnson supports Israel's ethnic cleansing in the Gaza then i suspect he would not be opposed to genecide if he believed it served god's purpose.
Johnson, according to multiple news outlets, has in his opposition to the 2020 elections, cited “credible allegations of fraud and irregularity.”
Can any sane person, with specificity, detail what those are? Because I've yet to see any proof, or anything for that matter that would fall under the rubrik of credible as it relates to fraud and irregularity as it relates to the 2020 election.
Not. One. Thing.
But I'm open to being persuaded.
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