House Speaker Mike Johnson says God will punish “depraved” U.S. because more teens identify as LGBTQ+
"God is mocked openly in the public square," he said this past Sunday...
Mike Johnson: "Look it's not my fault that I'm making this country shitty, it is those pesky LGBTQ+ people."
This is the problem, like I'm fine if he was really going to let God do the punishing, but they all wanna take his job
Little mike johnson is living in his own personal HELL on earth where he makes shit up and thinks he hears god.
That's right out of the Nazi playbook. These people, when cornered, will simply recite Bible versus at you as the reason for their malice.
It's not inappropriate, I guess... The Bible is full of some pretty horrible and malicious things masked as righteousness.
Johnson then wrote that he worries that “our culture has fallen so far” since the United States’ founding in 1776.
“I fear America may be beyond redemption,” he adds.
Since 1776? The year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? I would think America got quite a bit better since then. I can think of just a few things that have made it better like:
If Mike Johnson sees these things as a decline of the United States since the Declaration of Independence, he is saying he is seeing other besides white men gaining the ability to vote as a bad thing.
Republicans, your chosen Speaker of the House sees the Constitution of the United States as a negative thing!
Back in the good ol' days where you were committed to a mental institution if found masterbating.
If you were a man. Women were committed over far less
Now we get people doctorbating unpunished.
I mean tbf his ilk are really yearning for those articles of confederation days now that the tide on federation is beginning a grindingly slow turn against them
Something the sheer degree to which Millennials and Gen Z have embraced the cause of Palestine is probably putting into an extremely sharp focus as of late.
If Mike Johnson sees these things as a decline of the United States since the Declaration of Independence, he is saying he is seeing other besides white men gaining the ability to vote as a bad thing.
Oh you know that's exactly what he's thinking!
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
He 100% believes that
When it got worse was when Nixon sold out the population in the 70ies.
If God is punishing us, he's doing it by sending a plague of Republicans.
Is that one the plague of snakes?
As House Speaker, it is not your job to speak on behalf of God.
Perhaps leave that to the popes.
He's Baptist, not Catholic. He doesn't give a damn what the Pope says.
The point remains. He is in no way an authority within the Baptist church, let alone someone that can speak for God according to that religion.
Seriously, who can possibly be so invested in the personal lives and relationships of others?
I genuinely don't understand how you can waste your time with that amount of hate.
It's extremism, plain and simple. Live the life you want and let others live theirs.
Be kind. Support one another despite any differences we may have. Seriously, WTF?
Life would be so much better if everyone just left each other alone. Like 90% of people in the world literally don't care the 10% that are making the world a crap place.
I honestly don’t understand who votes for this guy because they believes that he represents them. 
The older I get the weirder it gets to me that grown adults have an imaginary friend who tells them to be bigoted.
If I had an imaginary friend I would want it to be like Scorpio in Farscape. Someone who could give me insights I didn't think of, someone to bounce ideas off of, and maybe turn on painkillers in situations where I need one.
The older I get the weirder it gets to me that grown adults have an imaginary friend who tells them to be bigoted.
I honestly see it the other way around: bigots find sanctuary in places where critical thought is absent from the conversation. Its easier to push any agenda you want if the dogma is to take your leadership's word on faith alone. Being "religious" and invoking the name of god is being used here like a cheat code to get access to hearts and minds.
If I had an imaginary friend I would want it to be like Scorpio in Farscape. Someone who could give me insights I didn’t think of, someone to bounce ideas off of, and maybe turn on painkillers in situations where I need one.
Sorry that's not really possible. There is an alternative: mild schizophrenia for the company and dissociative disorder for the pain are the best we can do around here.
Agreed completely, particularly on the first paragraph.
I seriously doubt anybody has ever been a compassionate friend to all people, then one day was innocently reading their Bible like a Good Person, and turned into a raging bigot once they read something about a man not laying with a man as they would a woman, abomination, etc.
The religion is just an enforcement mechanism. When Junior starts thinking that just because gay sex seems icky to him personally, maybe it doesn’t make those people evil and unwelcome? Nope, gotta remind him that his icky feelings have the ultra-triple-dog-infinity-plus-infinity stamp of approval! SEARCH YOUR FEELINGS, JUNIOR! YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE!
Detective Miller from the expanse..doors and corners...sorry been listening to the audio books.
Always check your doors and corners.
Such a great series
It's funny, because their imaginary friend explicitly tells them not to be hateful bigots. Many times
They don't actually belive in God. They just need an excuse to be shitty people because they know damn well they're shitty people.
Personally I'd rather have Six from BSG than Scorpius if I'm given options for a guest in my head.
Okay, let's see "God" come on down and do that. Until then I'm gonna continue being "depraved" fucking nut jobs.
He should go to Afghanistan. Our shit says "we the people." That's a formal acknowledgment that God is not coming to govern for us.
In fact, established religion at the time generally supported monarchs. A monarchy gets its legitimacy from God at the ordination / coronation. The monarch needs the support of the church because they are supposed to be at least "chosen by God", if not divine themselves.
It's getting more and more difficult to understand where they are coming from. I ask my boyfriend what we want to make for dinner, while our speaker asks his son, a minor, to monitor him so that he doesn't get addicted to porn. The relationship I have with my boyfriend is just as healthy, maybe even more healthy than the relationships I've had with women. I give people a pass in the 00s since being queer was rare, but queer people have been in the mainstream for well over a decade at this point, and we are a known quantity. We just want a happy life like everyone else. That's it.
I often laugh that some religious people most likely spend more time thinking about gay sex than we do. Which is once a week if that for us.
We just want a happy life like everyone else
I thought you wanted to indoctrinate the kids with the woke mind virus, and various other buzzwords and word salad
How can he be anti-gay when he has Trump's cock in his mouth and ass 24/7?
To be fair, he can barely feel it.
My 13-year-old daughter like girls much more than boys.
I'm fucking terrified that he's in power.
Come to Europe.
Pick one of those dark blue ones:
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/factsheets/lgbti/img/en_map.jpg
(Image source: https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/factsheets/lgbti/en/ )
We can't afford to move to another town, let alone another country.
EU countries are very difficult to migrate to. Their standards for residency are just not possible for most of us. I've desperately wanted to become an EU resident/citizen for the last 30 years, but simply do not meet the criteria for any of the countries.
But thank you very much for the welcoming invitation.
I can't blame her. Have you seen boys lately? They're fucking awful
As a former one myself... teenage boys have always been fucking awful.
If god was real, the sky would open up and he'd smush this stupid fuck for using his namesake to spread lies, fear, and bullshit
Actually god told me that he hates Mike Johnson because his last name means penis and that’s fucking gay.
I'm not concerned the wrath of a fictional character.
It's not the main character I'm worried about. It's his hoard of arrogant, dipshit, maniacal, obese orcs in pickup trucks.
Me either, unless it's Khan.
Don't worry, he is left on a planet that is unstable with this weird bug that plays mindcontrol worms in people. I am sure that is the end of him.
Maybe God is punishing us because we elect imbeciles.
This seems more likely to me
And as always the innocent suffer for it.
But then they get double rewards points in heaven.
To be fair if this is true this is kinda on us.
That's not good. I mean seriously God is going to punish America. We don't know when or how but it's going to bad. If you are a God Fearing Republican, please evacuate now! Mexico, Canada, Cuba. It doesn't matter just get out of America before it's too late! And stay out! For your safety. Think of the children.
I don't think Mexico, Canada, Cuba, or much anywhere else for that matter would appreciate littering on such a degree.
Mexico, Canada, Cuba
Russia. Russia's the right answer. Favorite 4th of July vacation spot for more than one US congressperson. Might as well go early for the winter holidays.
Unfortunately they welcome the arrival of their murderous God because they think he will destroy all the icky people.
Oh if he thinks America is gunna burn because of the gays he shouldn't come to Canada. We legalized gay marriage a decade before the states. By his logic we are long overdue to be a smoking crater.
Please, ask god to stop priests and church leaders from molesting children. Thanks.
I asked, and he said "nah"
Surprised you even got an answer. That prick has been ghosting mankind for thousands of years!
OOOooh punish me sky daddy
Considering LGBTQ+ is a protected group in the USA, surely the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's comments are tantamount to criminal harassment if not hate motivated harassment.
Considering LGBTQ+ is a protected group in the USA
[citation needed]
As far as I understand, the US "Equality Act" fizzled out the last time it tried to make its way through the US parliament. That would codify LGBTQ+ protections into actual law in the US. The closest thing I can find is a Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ protections are covered under the Civil Rights Act in Bostock v. Clayton County, but the Supreme Court is a fickle beast, and I doubt they would rule the same way today if it were challenged again.
We don't have hate crimes. That's not a concept that exists legally. As for harrassment, I don't think it'd stand in court, and good luck suing the Speaker of the House
Get these fucking mentally ill cunts out of politics! These idiots believe in magic and mean to force their irrational shit upon us all!
I'd like to see him try.
But it looks like this asshole is going to punish America instead.
Yeah but you see they're carrying out God's work so it's fine. Especially when it's hurting the "right kind" of people.
Ugh I hate all of those words
Last time I checked Jesus hated lots of minorities and thought they were beyond redemption for what ever reason /s
Is this "god" in the room with us right now?
Or maybe he is too busy giving children cancer? Or maybe trapping children under rubble with the decaying remains of their family? Or maybe watching a child's organs fail from malnutrition? Or maybe god is listening to their Spotify playlist "mating calls of the last of their species"? Or perhaps they're watching their favorite reality tv show "active shooter event", new episodes every week.
Probably not though. Who has time for such trivial concerns when there are more important issues in this world like who people like to kiss and what genitals they prefer.
Last week, there was a house fire in my state in which two kids died. I realize that there's a lot that I don't know. But I'm pretty sure even I could come up with a fucking plan for the universe THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE A FOUR AND A ONE YEAR OLD TO BURN TO DEATH.
This guy seems like a bit of a dickhead
That explains why he keeps it shoved so far up his ass.
It is always some hateful delusional person talking about God is going to hate people for being LGBTQ.
Christians make God sound like such a nice guy who totally deserves worship!
My go to is always number of hurricanes that hit fabulous san francisco vs the conservative gulf states.
I’m sick of these America-hating assholes bad-mouthing MY COUNTRY.
If you hate freedom so much, you’re FREE to LEAVE!!!
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Liberian flags, nice touch.
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
It's irony
The phrasing was tongue-in-cheek, but the message was sincere.
So the dude is a straight up lunatic? He belongs inside a fuckin insane asylum.
He's attractive to a very specific voting demographic.
This week, Johnson is delivering the keynote speech at a gala for the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL), a Christian Nationalist group with ties to massively influential conservative groups.
"[...] I cannot conclude anything other than America is hanging on by a thread.”
I sincerely agree, Mr. Johnson.
You know what really pisses me off? When they say shit like "identifying" as lgbtq which sounds very close to "it's a choice to be gay".
If the above two statements are true (which they are not in context to this post) then being a straight white male is also a choice! There's no double standard here!
Which logically, if it's a choice either way then these straight white men are just as gay as everyone else, they're just choosing to be straight!
The only reason I could imagine for someone to believe they choose their sexuality is if they're in denial. "Of course every man wants to fuck another man, resisting that urge is a test of righteousness" is a common thought among religious homophobes.
Just Henry Cavill
I don't see a need to bring race into this.
I was connotating towards the speaker of the house who is objectively a straight white male or so he claims.
It's not so much race itself as it's the privilege. Outside of literal royalty, there's nobody more privileged than a rich and powerful conservative Christian cishet white man with good healthcare for free in the US.
The color of his skin doesn't inherently make the Jericho Johnson a worse person, but it without question makes him more privileged, which makes him more of a hypocrite when he tries to play the victim.
Then let God punish us and stop trying to do it yourself.
This is the real blasphemy of these people. What he's doing is what "taking the Lord's name in vain" really means. Claiming to speak for God.
Hey Mike, you are the depravity. You outed yourself as an anti-American neofascist when you tried to overthrow democracy and replace it with a dictatorship.
Imagine giving an entire species free will to do whatever they want, then getting pissed off because of how a % of that species decides to find pleasure and get into relationships, and then collectively punishing a specific geographical region based on that small %.
But wait, create people with those tendencies and even though you are all knowing all seeing and infallible, you were wrong in creating them??
Also those same Americans who think that go off their nuts if you suggest America isn’t the greatest place on earth. Seems like, for all the gayness, it’s doing fine* and yet basically any country that has rules against being gay is also in a range of pretty shitty states.
*America is not doing fine, but largely in the same way a lot of places aren’t under capitalism.
I wonder when are we going to learn it was all projection?
From pretty much the first moment he was shown on TV.
You know what I love in my government? Religion /s
The weirdest part is if an uprising ever happen in the US due to their decades of terrible policy making; they'll blame the gays and Muslims for it all. So yes, their technically right...
Again with the fear mongering over people that mean absolutely no harm to you as a human and are not ruining the country at all, maybe just to your career for being a prick
Pretty sure Jesus would say "love thy LGBTQIA+ neighbor" if he were present, but no, gotta crusade against the minorities because of some Old Testament law that was fulfilled by Jesus's sacrifice in the New Testament anyways
Not to mention the perpetual insinuation of America = Ancient Israel 2.0 which is a load of crap, this is an agnostic nation and always was
Jesus loved whores and prostitutes
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "Jesus loves you", but it's certainly far more apt to describe his character
Yeah, Jesus atleast according to the bible basically hung out exclusively with the downcast and downtrodden of society. If Jesus was alive in the modern times hed be that socialist dude who works at a rehab facility and hangs out at a gay nightclub trying to convince the bartenders to unionize because his friends like the drinks.
The funny thing is that every article of clothing he owns is a sin, according to the same book they get their gay hatred from.
He probably should have executed his wife when they got married too, according to the Old Testament.
"God is mocked openly in the public square"
Lucky one. Other gods are forgotten.
Big "you are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of" vibes 😁
This "reasoning" is quite similar to what patriarch Kirill of Moskov declared a year ago, with the difference that it referred to the depraved "West" (not US specifically). He was harshly criticized by western media and even ridiculed for being expression of a retrograde and superstitious approach to religion.
Ironically, now the most democratic country of the world, the homeland of freedom itself, is having its political (not even religious) leaders telling basically the same thing.
How quickly the tide turns.
Most democratic country is Norway.
USA is at position 26.
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/most-democratic-countries/
The list is interesting to be sure, but as with most linear rankings of large datasets it leaves lots of room for debate. But I think that's the point. It's not meant to be used as a rhetorical sledgehammer to silence discussion the way you have used it here.
It's kind of shocking how many of them have an actual monarchy still, with real actual powers over the government despite claims that they are mostly symbolic. Top of the list, Norway, still has a King. New Zealand, still a colony with a King. Finland and Iceland actually have elected presidents. Sweden, curators of the democracy ranking list, still have a monarchy. Each monarch claims they are only symbolic, but if that's true and these countries are truly the more perfect democracies they claim to be, one has to wonder why the people have kept such oligarchs in a position of power over them. In some cases the power seems to have only passed from the monarch to the parliament out of custom, not actual legislation or constitution.
I'm having difficulty with the bit where you call the USA the "homeland of freedom itself". I know Americans like to believe they live in the best country in the world but the evidence to the country is pretty substantial.
Personally I think that a free country probably doesn't have a police force that's killed more of its own citizens than a hostile nation state could ever hope to achieve.
now the most democratic country of the world, the homeland of freedom itself
Neither of those are even close to true...
Or ever have been
Yall queda
In mysterious ways, right?
Did anyone read the email? It’s basically out of 1940. Also,
Johnson may not realize that the reason why more youth identified as non-heterosexual in the CDC’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey was because it changed its questions on sexual identity. The most recent YRBSS survey included the two following new options for students to describe their sexual identities: “I am not sure about my sexual identity (questioning),” or, “I describe my sexual identity in some other way.”
Lmao. “NO! You have to be SURE about it! Have straight sex NOW!”
Wait sorry are we giving out free straight sex?
Only if your insurance covers it.
We don't give out anything free... you pull yourself up by your mastabatory bootstraps
Mike longed to see depraved gay teens being punished, but he can't watch those videos without his son knowing.
Such a negative human being.
Multiply by i to make it imaginary. If you want, you can multiply by i again and make it positive.
Can he smite the hate-filled GOP first?
Why would I repent to a god so insecure it can’t handle mortal mockery?
I bet he's secretly ultra gay
I'm right there with you. It's always those who scream the loudest
We need some sort of sanity test before allowing people to take office in the U.S.
Of course the first people they'll come for is trans people and other people will allow it
Your presence is punishment enough.
