House Speaker Mike Johnson Pushing Christian Extremist ‘Ex-Gay’ Torture? LORDY THERE ARE TAPES
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Your daily MIKE JOHNSON IS A FUCKING LUNATIC story By EVAN HURST NOV 2, 2023
Time to shine a brighter light on new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s past support for gay-hating psycho-quack “pray away the gay” conversion therapy, which is only endorsed by religious fascists, and never by real therapists. It has directly caused many LGBTQ+ people to kill themselves or attempt to, and it’s banned (or on the way to being banned) in most civilized societies, because of how it’s literally torture, much of it inflicted on minor children.
CNN’s KFile came out with a big story on Johnson’s ties to the practice earlier this week, and now they’ve got LORDY THERE ARE TAPES.
Johnson was a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, now called the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is rightly considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In that position, he worked closely with the now defunct Exodus International, which was one of the leading purveyors of “ex-gay” torture therapy, to indoctrinate children into hate with an event called the “Day of Truth.”
You see, every year there’s a thing called the Day of Silence, in which kids stay silent to shine a light on bullying and other struggles endured by LGBTQ+ youth. This has always chapped the asses of Christian extremists, who pretty accurately view anything that humanizes LGBTQ+ people as an affront to their agenda. Things like the Day of Silence, without having to say so explicitly, expose the religious Right as the terrorist movement it is, as a strong predictor of good mental health and general life success for LGBTQ+ youth is whether they are accepted and loved by their families and communities.
Who doesn’t love and accept LGBTQ+ youth? The kinds of lunatics who adhere to the Christian extremist lifestyle.
So these fucking bastards in 2005 insisted on starting a so-called “Day of Truth” the day after the Day of Silence, to allow vile extremist Christian spawn children to take back the conversation and restart the bullying. These unfriendly and un-Christlike students would hand out cards full of discredited religious lies about changing your sexuality, and so forth.
That’s what Mike Johnson worked with Exodus on. Indeed, the literature used in Day of Truth bullying festivities directed kids to Exodus.
Johnson promoted the event heavily in the media – through radio interviews, comments in newspapers, and an editorial. In interviews, he repeatedly cited the case of a teen who went to school after the Day of Silence wearing a shirt that read, “Be ashamed. Our school has embraced what God has condemned” and “Homosexuality is shameful.” The teen was suspended and ADF represented him in legal action over the incident. The case was dismissed because the teen graduated, and the court found he no longer had standing to challenge the dress code.
“Day of Truth was really established to counter the promotion of the homosexual agenda in public schools,” Johnson told a radio host in 2008.
Former Exodus executive veep Randy Scobey says Exodus worked with Johnson and ADF “behind the scenes a lot.”
Here’s what Johnson says in the audio recording KFile dug up:
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