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“You know, we don’t live in a democracy because a democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what’s for dinner. OK? It’s not just majority rule. It’s a constitutional republic. The founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition of what a civil society is supposed to look like. What’s happened, Alex, over the last 60 or 70 years, is that our generation has been convinced that there is a separation of church and state. Most people think that that’s part of the Constitution, but it’s not. Remember, I’m a constitutional lawyer.” – Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a 2016 interview.
“You know, we don’t live in a democracy” but a “biblical” republic.
That’s what Mike Johnson said in a 2016 interview as he explained his views on the U.S. government.
That’s what the new Republican House speaker, who tried to overturn the will of the voters in 2020, believes. pic.twitter.com/AEwQXwutpl
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 26, 2023
Mike Johnson in 2016: “What’s happened, Alex, over the last 60 or 70 years, is that our generation has been convinced that there is a separation of church and state. Most people think that that’s part of the Constitution, but it’s not.”
(It is: See The Establishment Clause). pic.twitter.com/yP0vsl7rC1
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 26, 2023
Two things you should be clear about Speaker Mike Johnson:
1) He’s not some Republican pandering to the extreme religious right and Christian dominionists; he’s a true believer.
2) He’s not some ignorant yahoo. He’s very intelligent and serious about writing his views into law.
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 26, 2023
Mike Johnson was a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, the Christian-dominionist-aligned far-right legal group that, among other things, wrote the Mississippi law at the center of the Dobbs case with the intention of using it to overturn Roe v. Wade.https://t.co/YxCzO6qFY0
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 26, 2023
The ADF’s tax filings said its goal was to “inspire a distinctly Christian worldview in every area of law, and particularly in the areas of public policy and religious liberty.”
Mike Johnson worked for the ADF for years.@MSFreePress story: https://t.co/YxCzO6qFY0 pic.twitter.com/gDImdpmuVQ
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 26, 2023
In 2003, Mike Johnson wrote that states should have the right not only to criminalize gay sex, but other sexual “deviancy”—like “the evils of sexual conduct outside marriage.”
Mike Johnson doesn’t just pander to Christian dominionists. He’s one of them. pic.twitter.com/oF25fg8v17
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 26, 2023
When Mike Johnson says he believes God raises up the people in authority, you should absolutely believe him and absolutely understand he believes he was chosen by God for this job.pic.twitter.com/caO0a4llpS
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 26, 2023