Truthout highlights:
“In an unearthed video recording, highlighted by Accountable.US in analysis supplied solely to Truthout, Johnson hailed his conviction that God, and nobody else, provides presidents and the federal government authority.”
“The deal with was a part of a seminar given by Johnson and his extremist anti-LGBTQ spouse, Kelly Johnson, titled “Solutions for Our Occasions: Authorities, Tradition, and Christianity.” It was organized by an organization owned by Johnson’s spouse, referred to as Onward Christian Schooling Providers, Inc., a Christian counseling firm which espouses the hateful perception that homosexuality is akin bestiality or incest.
In different elements of the deal with, the now-speaker of the Home warns that widening welfare applications signifies that “Authorities is turning into God,” as Mom Jones reported just lately. He means that democracy and majority rule are a type of tyranny, and that the U.S. was based as a Christian nation — a notion that historians have mentioned is unfaithful, with the founders repeatedly espousing the significance of non secular freedom.”
“[The statements] additionally converse to an inherent hypocrisy, as Accountable.US argues, in what Johnson says he believes concerning the energy given to presidents — evident in his function as a key architect of former President Donald Trump’s tried coup over the 2020 election. Although Johnson preached the significance of supposedly submitting to authorities, when Trump misplaced the 2020 election, Johnson orchestrated an amicus transient signed by over 100 Home Republicans in a Texas lawsuit to invalidate the election outcomes.”
Accountable.US has labored to reveal Mike Johnson’s far-right extremism since he was elected Speaker final month. Accountable.US launched a report on Johnson’s decades-long authorized historical past working to roll again essential LGBTQ and reproductive rights, revealed his decade-long management of far-right extremist Residing Waters Publications, uncovered his excessive views intertwined in his political and enterprise life, and highlighted his ties to the Southern Poverty Legislation Middle-designated hate group Alliance Defending Freedom.
