Speak Mike Johnson’ Homophobic Past Runs Deep.
“Speaker of the House Mike Johnson closely collaborated with a group in the mid-to-late 2000s that promoted “conversion therapy,” a discredited practice that asserted it could change the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian individuals.
Prior to launching his political career, Johnson, a lawyer, gave legal advice to an organization called Exodus International and partnered with the group to put on an annual anti-gay event aimed at teens, according to a CNN KFile review of more than a dozen of Johnson’s media appearances from that timespan.
Founded in 1976, Exodus International was a leader in the so-called “ex-gay” movement, which aimed to make gay individuals straight through conversion therapy programs using religious and counseling methods. Exodus International connected ministries across the world using these controversial approaches.”
Speaker Johnson has a deeply homophobic, anti-gay pas that some find shocking but is really on brand for a GOP congressman from the South. Now that he is 3rd in line for the Presidency, he has attempted to soften his homophobic stances and professes respect for the ‘rule of law’ when it comes to things like same sex marriage. Some of his wife’s anti gay websites have also up and vanished over night in a tacit acknowledgment that homophobia is not acceptable in his newly elevated position.
