ABC News reports:
Years before Mike Johnson would ascend to No. 2 in the presidential line of succession, a German TV news outlet profiled the future speaker of the House and his then-teenage daughter.
“This looks like a wedding,” a news reporter says in German in a 2015 n-tv news segment that was unearthed by ABC News. “But they are not bride and groom — but rather father and … daughter,” the reporter adds, referring to Johnson and his then-13-year-old daughter, Hannah.
The German news segment documented Johnson and his family preparing for and then attending a purity ball, a controversial formal dance event, popular among some conservative Christians, that gained notoriety in the early 2000s.
Read the full article. As you can see below, the Family Research Council and the Concernstipated Women are already screaming about the report.
Speaker Mike Johnson and his daughter attended a ‘purity ball’ in 2015.
A purity ball culminates with the daughter signing a pledge to her father to abstain from dating and to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. https://t.co/GVDkKSZb2O
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 20, 2023
This week’s contrived controversy? @SpeakerJohnson took his teenage daughter to a “purity ball” in 2015.
“The Left can continue its slanderous crusade against Johnson, but one thing is clear: Johnson is a good father and husband. If that is what the media wants him to be known…
— The Washington Stand (@WSHStand) December 20, 2023
More anti-Christian bigotry disguised as news about @SpeakerJohnson’s family. He is a Dad who has worked hard to love and protect his kids. Really, @ABC that’s what you got?!
https://t.co/Ds6orFiwe0
— Penny Nance (@PYNance) December 20, 2023