Speaker Johnson welcomed and honored at anti-gay and anti-transgender event.

American Moses: Mike Johnson at the National Association of Christian Lawmakers Gala

 

"Christian nationalists gathered Tuesday night at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C, for a National Association of Christian Lawmakers gala at which House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered the keynote address and received the NACL’s American Patriot Award for Christian Honor and Courage. 

The tenor of the evening was set by far-right anti-LGBTQ pastor E.W. Jackson, who used his time at the podium to declare that he refuses to use the words “transgender” or “gay” because, he said, “to be gay means to be happy, to be joyful, to be carefree, and there is nothing happy, joyful, or carefree about being a homosexual in rebellion against almighty God.”

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"Johnson began his remarks by claiming that weeks before he became House Speaker, God began preparing him to lead the nation through “a Red Sea moment.” Johnson said he didn’t know what that meant at the time, but assumed it meant that he was to serve as an Aaron to someone else’s Moses. 

But, it turned out, God intended for him to be that Moses. “The Lord impressed upon my heart a few weeks before this happened that something was going to occur,” Johnson said. “And the Lord very specifically told me in my prayers to prepare, but to wait.”

Johnson said that once Rep. Kevin McCarthy was removed as Speaker of the House, God began to wake him up in the middle of the night “to speak to me, [telling me] to write things down; plans, procedures, and ideas on how we could pull the [Republican] conference together.”

As one candidate after another stepped forward to run for Speaker but failed, Johnson said that “the Lord kept telling me to wait” but “then at the end, when it was toward the end, the Lord said, ‘Now, step forward.” “Me? I’m supposed to be Aaron,” Johnson said. “No. The Lord said, ‘Step forward.'”

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Speaker Johnson was honored by this gathering and is considered one of them. 

This is how the event ended:

"The event then closed out as it began, with anti-LGBTQ evangelist Andrew Wommack calling transgenderism and homosexuality “demonic” and complaining that even when people speak out against these things, they often do so in ways that “validates the ungodly.” 

 “I am not against homosexuals, but it is not a godly lifestyle,” Wommack said. “We don’t have to stand up and say that you have a right to be this way, you have a right to practice pedophilia, you have right to choose to try and change your sex. Those things are demonic.”

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When Andrew Wommack said he's not against homosexuals, he lied. To call fellow human beings who are true to their innate nature "demonic," is to tell those who listened to him that the LGBTQ and transgender communities are like the Devil, therefore evil.  What could be more "against" human beings than calling them "demonic?" That labels them all as devils.

Men like Wommack believe they're doing God's work, when, IMO, they are themselves the embodiment of what is truly evil in our world -- dehumanizing people they don't know or understand and suggesting to weak-minded individuals that their fellow human beings are devils -- possibly implanting ideas in their minds of harming them. 

Fanatical religionists are the same in all religions in their belief that what they don't understand is evil and demonic.

These supposed men of God preach hatred, slander, and bear false witness against those they do not know -- their God's actual creations.

"Johnson said that 'the Lord kept telling me to wait' but then at the end, when it was toward the end, the Lord said, ‘Now, step forward. '” 

IMO, Speaker Johnson is delusional and dangerous. 

When people tell their therapists that they hear voices telling them what to do or telling them the future -- especially a voice that claims it is God speaking to them -- therapists and other mental health specialists seek help for that person, usually hospitalization and deep psychotherapy.  But the crowd who listened to Speaker Johnson telling them that God talks to him and tells him the future were perfectly fine listening to this man's claims that God talks to him and advises him about his job. 

Isn't it amazing that Speaker Johnson's conversation with God -- the being that religionists believe is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, the creator of the vast and magnificent universe and multiverses, the creator of subatomic particles and vibrating strings -- would be so intricately concerned with the selection of the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States?

Wouldn't it have made more sense if this omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God had perhaps warned Johnson, or someone, about the coming slaughter in Israel on October 7? Wouldn't that have been a tad more important than having God talk to Johnson about a change in his career path?

What Anne Lamott once said comes to mind:

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”