He has devoted his career to demeaning, endangering and imprisoning LGBTQ+ people. That's the résumé House Republicans were looking for.
The older I get, the more reminders I see that Maya Angelou was right: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Take the new House speaker, Mike Johnson, for instance. He’s been showing who he is since 1998, when he graduated from law school and started going after the LGBTQ+ community every chance he could. And I’m not just talking about trying to stop same-sex marriage, because let’s face it, many progressives were against it back then as well.
Author Jeff Sharlet has written multiple books on the inner workings of a collective of powerful Republican politicians, some of whom share a town house in Washington that was the site of not only prayer groups but also apparently extramarital affairs. The New Yorker dubbed it a “frat house for Jesus.” It takes a very special reading of the Bible to land on “jail gay people” and “extramarital affairs are OK” at the same time.
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