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Speaker Mike Johnson inherits identical political issues confronted by previous GOP leaders, AP Explains
Republican Mike Johnson is the brand new speaker of the Home, however the ally of Donald Trump inherits most of the identical political issues which have tormented previous GOP leaders, examined their grasp of the gavel, and ultimately chased them out of workplace. (Oct. 26)
Speaker Mike Johnson stokes Christian nationalism
Re: “New speaker a coverage wonk who lives his religion, values,” by Cameron Smith, October 28.
Columnist Cameron Smith, characterizes newly minted Home Speaker Mike Johnson as, considerably unassumingly and benignly, “a coverage wonk who lives his religion.” Nonetheless, below the facade of Johnson’s “Everyman” persona lurks a raging and vociferous crusader for Christian nationalism.
The inspiration of Christian nationalism was constructed on the premise that white Christians have a mandate from God to dominate the sociopolitical hierarchy. Devoid of empathy for the marginalized inside society, their self-righteousness renders them blind to the prevailing injustices which encompass them. Christian nationalists view it as their prerogative to outline cultural norms, and take umbrage ought to their dictates be challenged.
Circumstances however, the Speaker has stridently condemned abortion as “a holocaust,” and sententiously written off homosexuality as “inherently unnatural” and a “harmful way of life.” In a 2004 printed article Johnson wrote, “Consultants undertaking that gay marriage is the darkish harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that might doom even the strongest republic”.
Whereas ever able to play the sufferer card, Christian nationalists are literally the victimizers, persecuting any group perceived as a risk to their self-proclaimed privileged standing. Inside a various democratic society, no predominant faith ought to faux to imagine non secular hegemony, which is exactly the motivation driving Christian nationalism. Moderately, Christians ought to search to seek out widespread floor with these from different religion traditions, so that concord would possibly transcend inherent variations. For Christ by no means supposed his followers to lord it over their contemporaries, ceding to them the ability, to not dominate, but to serve.
Robert Judkins, Hendersonville 37075
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New Speaker Mike Johnson should reply this query
Tyranny of the Christian Nationalists is marching ahead with glee.
Republicans elevated Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, Speaker of the Home.
Rep. Mike Johnson: “Some individuals are referred to as to pastoral ministry and others to music ministry, and so on. I used to be referred to as to authorized ministry and I’ve been out on the entrance strains of the tradition struggle.”
The brand new Speaker has been steadfast in making an attempt to shred the Structure of the US. He doesn’t consider within the separation of church and state. He is anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-religion apart from his personal, pro-gun.
Mike Johnson, a Bible toting Baptist, tried to overthrow the 2020 election however has not answered the massive query: Does he nonetheless consider within the “Huge Lie”? He solutions questions with scripture. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, after the Home vote, quoted scripture introducing him earlier than the Home claiming the “Republicans have been following God’s course in choosing him.”
He has requested folks to learn the Bible to find “how God intends for us to reside out our religion in a hostile world.” And “regardless of the novel secularists’ efforts to persuade the general public in any other case,” he argued, “it’s not ‘bigotry’ to remind folks of God’s claims on our lives and organic actuality.”
You see the place this might go. Can Mike Johnson deal with the job with a Bible in a single hand and a gavel within the different? I doubt it. Till he solutions the massive query in regards to the “Huge Lie,” with the reality, Yea or Nay, he’ll at all times be Maga Mike Johnson, making an attempt to take the nation down his Maga wormhole view.
Vote Blue.
Mary Sanford, Lebanon 37087
