Speaker Mike Johnson wanted to criminalize sodomy & called gay marriage the “harbinger of chaos”

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Mike Johnson delivers remarks following his election to the position, October 25, 2023.
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A series of early 2000s editorials written by the newly elected and virulently anti-LGBTQ+ Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) reveal his long history of targeting the LGBTQ+ community, as well as his beliefs that the mere existence of homosexuality should be criminalized.

In a local Louisiana paper, Johnson wrote a 2003 op-ed blasting the Supreme Court for striking down anti-sodomy laws in the historic LGBTQ+ rights case of Lawrence v. Texas. Johnson said the ruling “dealt a devastating blow to fundamental American values and millennia of moral teaching.” He referred to gay sex as “same-sex deviate sexual intercourse” and said it was a public health concern due to “the exponential spread of STDs and HIV.”

He also said that gay people should not be a protected class because…

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