By now you’ve likely heard that Representative Mike Johnson—the congressman Republicans finally elected as the new Speaker of the House after 22 days of chaos—played a significant role in the plot to overturn the 2020 election, a lowlight on his résumé that is obviously deeply concerning for the future of democracy. Also extremely worrisome? Johnson’s wildly bigoted remarks about homosexuality over the years, and the fact that he supported criminalizing gay sex between consenting adults.

CNN’s KFile reports that prior to his career in politics, Johnson wrote a series of deeply homophobic editorials in his role as an attorney for the socially conservative legal group now known as Alliance Defending Freedom.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    IDK about anyone else here, but when I see anodyne-sounding-but-doublespeak org names like ‘Alliance Defending Freedom’, it’s a red flag.

    ADF has never defended freedom, unless by ‘freedom’ you mean the ability to discriminate against LGBT folk and women. They proclaim themselves to be for “the right of people to freely live out their faith” but really that only seems to cover folks whose faith is some flavor of political bigotry.

    Yeah so when Johnson remarked that “God has ordained each of us” to congress, the flavor of God he’s talking about is the one that wants laws to protect anti-LGBT bullies and vigilantes, not their victims. Meanwhile everyone else whose faith does not abet that shit now gets to hear him claim to speak hate on God’s behalf

    Also in case you forgot, the history of sentencing people to ‘hard labor’ derives from the post-civil-war practice of convicting black men in kangaroo courts (after all, the 13th Amendment allowed for slavery if it was punishment for a crime). When they were told they couldn’t keep slaves but they could enslave people if they were convicts, the notion of ‘convict leasing’ was born.

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    10 months ago

    I’m so tired of these fucking twats inflicting their neuroses, hang ups, mental illnesses, and kinks on the rest of us.

    Get out of politics and get into therapy.

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    10 months ago

    Opposite-sex marriage leads to incest and inbreeding. Maybe we should just outlaw marriage altogether.

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      10 months ago

      Honestly, I don’t know why marriage is even codified into law.

      I take that back, I do. But it’s a stupid reason.

      There really is no modern reason that marriage needs to be something you need to let the government know about.

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        I’ve always thought that the word “marriage” should be removed from all laws since that’s a religious term and constantly quibbled about. Replace it with “civil union” defined as a joining between two consenting adults and leave the definition of “marriage” to the churches.

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          10 months ago

          I don’t think we should cede marriage to religion. Marriage predates all modern religions. It has always been about property, a civil matter. Religion can fuck right off laying claim to the institution.