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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe House GOP is a circus. The chaos has one source.
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Six weeks after his improbable rise from obscurity to speaker of the House in late 2023, Louisianas Mike Johnson decided to break bread with a group of Christian nationalists. He gave the keynote address (at the Museum of the Bible) to the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, a group whose founder, proud Christian nationalist Jason Rapert, has said: I reject that being a Christian Nationalist is somehow unseemly or wrong.
Raperts organization promoted the pine-tree Appeal to Heaven flag, which was among the banners flown at the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, 2021 and which, by total and remarkable coincidence, was proudly displayed outside Johnsons congressional office.
Confirmed speakers and award recipients for the gathering Johnson addressed included: a man who proposed that gay people should be forced to wear a label across their forehead reading, This can be hazardous to your health ; a woman who blamed gay people for Noahs flood and more recent natural disasters; and various adherents of dominionist theology, which holds that the United States should be governed under biblical law by Christians.
Ill tell you a secret, since media is not here, Johnson teased the group, unaware that his hosts were streaming video of the event. Johnson informed his audience that God had been speaking to me about becoming speaker, communicating very specifically, in fact, waking him at night and giving him plans and procedures.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/18/speaker-johnson-trump-2024/
CurtEastPoint
(19,044 posts)Lovie777
(14,033 posts)Mike Johnson approves.
drmeow
(5,170 posts)Even Benedict McConnell knows that would be a disaster for Republicans right now.
duncang
(2,789 posts)The same place that Hobby Lobby owner Steve Green bought and illegally brought in stolen Middle East antiquities for the museum. A lot of them looted from Iraq when Isis was needing money. Hobby lobby listed them as ceramic and clay tiles not antiquities. Hobby Lobby owner Steve Green never went to jail. He had to return 11,500 stolen artifacts to Iraq and Egypt. Paid a $3 million fine only.
Gore1FL
(21,626 posts)keithbvadu2
(39,120 posts)Gore1FL
(21,626 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(2,606 posts)He's why the Satanic Temple put a statue on Arkansas capitol grounds.
He's aiming for Guv, too.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/satanic-monument-arkansas-capitol