Newly elected House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claims he does not remember “some of” the many, many anti-LGBTQ+ comments he’s made over the course of his career.

Johnson’s history of opposing LGBTQ+ rights has been well documented and stretches back to the early 2000s, when he worked as a senior attorney and national media spokesman for anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (then called the Alliance Defense Fund). Between 2003 and 2005, Johnson also wrote several editorials for Shreveport, Louisiana, paper The Times, criticizing the Supreme Court for striking down anti-sodomy laws, opposing same-sex marriage, and arguing against non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people.

  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do we really want a man who, by his own admission, is so clearly suffering from dementia as the House Speaker? I’m just asking questions here.

    /s, obviously

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      1 year ago

      I’m just curious if there’s been any verifiable accounts that he has stopped beating his wife.