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Mi(ke) Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, doesn't like LGBTQ people….. - NewtonMP2100 - 10-26-2023
…..at least based on his past views…..
'Raging homophobe': New House speaker's views on LGBTQ issues under fresh scrutiny
....The unexpected elevation of fourth-term Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana to speaker of the House on Wednesday swiftly prompted unforgiving criticism and fresh scrutiny on the once obscure representative’s views on LGBTQ rights.
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, said Johnson would be “the most anti-equality” speaker in U.S. history.
“This is a choice that will be a stain on the record of everyone who voted for him,” Robinson said in a statement Wednesday. “Johnson is someone who doesn’t hesitate to express his disdain for the LGTBQ+ community from the rooftops and then introduces legislation that seeks to erase us from society.”
Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., one of the few openly gay members of Congress, appeared to take a jab at Johnson during the speaker vote on the House floor Wednesday, yelling, “Happy wedding anniversary to my wife!” before voting for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
Even outspoken conservative Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had gripes with Johnson’s ascension to power.
“So we just elected a raging homophobe to speaker…..?” McCain wrote on X. “Way to break stereotypes and win over hearts and minds!”
A representative for Johnson did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding criticisms of his views and prior comments on LGBTQ issues.
Until Wednesday, the Louisiana Republican was relatively unknown outside of Capitol Hill, having only joined Congress in 2017. But after the historic ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as speaker and the failure of three other GOP members to clinch the House’s top job, Johnson — who has been called an “architect” of the effort to overturn the 2020 election — is suddenly second in line to the presidency.
Amicus briefs and op-eds
In the early 2000s, Johnson worked as an attorney and spokesperson for the evangelical Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund, now known as the Alliance Defending Freedom. For decades, ADF — designated a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a designation the Arizona-based group disputes — spearheaded legal efforts to criminalize same-sex sexual activity, block efforts to legalize same-sex marriage, allow for businesses to deny service to LGBTQ people, and ban transgender people from using restrooms that correspond with their gender identities.
During his ADF tenure, Johnson sued the city of New Orleans in 2003 on behalf of the group over a local law that gave health care benefits to the partners of gay city workers.
That same year, he wrote a prominent amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, arguing in favor of allowing states to criminalize same-sex consensual sex. The brief argues that sex between men should be banned because it is more likely to spread sexually transmitted diseases than sex between men and women and therefore poses “a distinct public health problem.”......
……..oh……….boy………?!
Re: my Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is a homophobe….. - cbelt3 - 10-26-2023
He’s a true red QPublican, and a Speaker For Trump.
VOTE !
Re: my Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is a homophobe….. - vision63 - 10-26-2023
None of that matters to me. He could be a decent fella, he's still my enemy. I'd just be nicer to him.
Re: Mi Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is a homophobe….. - Speedy - 10-26-2023
Time for him to get his Johnson out of the closet.
Re: Mi(ke) Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, doesn't like LGBTQ people….. - sekker - 10-27-2023
Voldemort is absolutely not a homophobe, just his MAGA followers.
Re: Mi(ke) Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, doesn't like LGBTQ people….. - Ombligo - 10-27-2023
Surely he will vote to expel Santos, just don't call him Shirley.
Re: Mi(ke) Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, doesn't like LGBTQ people….. - Don C - 10-27-2023
Discussion on MSNBC last night was pointing out that Johnson's time as favorable is limited. There will be a time, sooner or later when he does not go far enough for the Boss and will suddenly be in disfavor. Plenty of precedent. Ultimately he HAS to work with Democrats and just that will annoy his Boss and his colleagues.
Re: Mi(ke) Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, doesn't like LGBTQ people….. - Ted King - 10-27-2023
Making Johnson Speaker just papers over the House Republicans' problems. The government is going to run out of money in late November. They have to pass legislation to keep things going. Now that the hard liners have won the Speaker battle with one of their own, how far are they going to refuse to compromise with Senate Democrats and Biden unless they get some things that even moderate House Republicans won't want to pass. What issues will they prioritize since the hard liners demands are all over the place and who knows what nonsense Trump will cook up to get them to pursue?
So they papered over the problem but I think the paper is going to get scorched looking pretty quickly. Unless... Johnson turns out to have a statesman hiding in there that tackles problems with practicality and compromise. Maybe he can leverage being one of the hardliners and the fact that they can hardly turn on him now to get them to compromise and not get too carried away. That would be nice.
Or maybe he is an ideologue determined to impose his tribes way on everybody else. Forget compromise. Threaten to stop the whole machine unless they get to take the steering wheel.
He's probably something in between a statesman and an uncompromising ideologue. I very much hope he leans more toward the former than the latter.
Re: Mi(ke) Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, doesn't like LGBTQ people….. - DeusxMac - 10-27-2023
Ted King wrote:
He's probably something in between a statesman and an uncompromising ideologue. I very much hope he leans more toward the former than the latter.
it doesn't look good...
https://youtu.be/M8vTc2tjCZQ?si=AYBOfqDBI2lf4LFx
Re: Mi(ke) Johnson hurts?!…..new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, doesn't like LGBTQ people….. - pdq - 10-27-2023
Ted King wrote: Unless... Johnson turns out to have a statesman hiding in there that tackles problems with the practicality and compromise.
We can always hope. But unless I’m mistaken, the ability of a single member to call to vacate remains, so if he acts with practicality and compromise, if he doesn’t cause a pointless government shutdown, I’m afraid he may be gone anyway.
