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In Beautiful Downtown Sodom you’ll encounter similar vermin from this cutthroat crowd.
THESE PEOPLE OF FAITH WANT YOU DEAD!
John Hagee, notorious homophobe and televangelist pit viper. In 2008, he claimed that the anti-Christ will be “a homosexual and partially Jewish, as was Adolf Hitler.” (Who was neither, except in the ignorant mind of a pseudo-Christian terrorist.)
In a sermon, Hagee made the infamous claim that God used the Nazis as a tool to herd the Jews out of Europe and into Palestine as preparation for Armageddon, the Rapture, and all that End Times baloney. (He does not account for the six million dead. One might expect more efficiency on the part of the Deity.)
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a right-wing organization based in Washington, D.C., led a "Christians in Solidarity with Israel" junket in 2014. He skirted Israel's gay pride events, of course, although when he learned that the American Embassy in Tel Aviv (where it stood until Trump relocated it to Jerusalem) had flown the LGBT flag during gay pride festivities, he offered a typical slimy opinion: "The rainbow flag over Israel…the last time they were flying that over Sodom and Gomorrah it didn't work out so well." His organization's website is replete
with such policy statements as “Family Research Council believes that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed. It is by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects.”
Bob Jones III
The notorious Bob Jones University, in Greenville, South Carolina, was founded in 1927 as a vanity institution by Bob Jones, Sr. After him came his son, Bob Jones, Jr., who ruled the place until the 1970s. The dictatorship then passed to Bob Jones III, who is still in place as chancellor. This dynasty resembles a Christian fundamentalist version of North Korea, founded by Kim Il Sung in 1948, ruled by his genocidal son Kim Jong Il until 2011, and from then by the murderous Kim Jong Un, whom Donald Trump fawned over when they met. North Korea, like Bob Jones U., is racist, homophobic, totalitarian, relentless in pursuit of heresy from its poisonous doctrines, and a blight on the world.
In 1980, Bob Jones III said that “it would solve the problem posthaste if homosexuals were stoned.” It would solve a different set of problems if fundamentalists were stoned — with rocks of the Bob Jones kind, not cannabis.
If you read about Jones on Wikipedia and elsewhere you’ll recognize a dangerously unstable tyrant whose potential for damage is fortunately limited primarily to his own fief, a tenth-rate school not unlike the aborted Trump University, that “educational” scheme hatched up by a functional illiterate to bilk the vulnerable.
MARK ROBINSON, LT. GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA
This man’s rottenness is so pervasive that to catalogue it would require many pages — not only his extreme homophobia, but his virulent antisemitism as well. He said, for instance, that “this foolishness about Hitler disarming millions of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash.” The reaction: he was mildly criticized by fellow Republicans as well as by Democrats, all of whom were fearful of being labeled racist. Such timidity on the part of Democrats is welcomed by the rabid right, whose venomous speech has no limit.
In June 2021 at a church in Seagrove, North Carolina, Robinson disparaged transgenderism and homosexuality, saying: "There's no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth. And yes I call it filth.” In the same speech, he called for an end to the separation of church and state. In October 2021, after Robinson's speech was brought to light by Right Wing Watch, Democratic state senator Jeff Jackson called for Robinson to resign, and Governor Roy Cooper’s office said that "It's abhorrent to hear anyone, and especially an elected official, use hateful rhetoric that hurts people and our state's reputation." Further mild criticism."
How about a boycott of North Carolina?
WHY IS MIKE JOHNSON OBSESSED WITH HOMOSEXUALITY? IS HE HIDING SOMETHING FROM HIS PAST?
How corrupt is the Republican Party? This is who they recently elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives — the branch of Congress with a current right-wing Republican majority.
Johnson has called homosexuality an “inherently unnatural” and “dangerous lifestyle” that would lead to legalized pedophilia and possibly even destroy “the entire democratic system.” He rails against anti-discrimination laws, saying “we don’t give special protections for every person’s bizarre choices.” He argues that gay marriage “is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”
Prior to joining Congress, Johnson partnered with a group that pushed anti-gay conversion therapy — a highly suspect system peopled largely by homosexuals who cannot accept their innate sexual preference and instead live a grotesque lie. These “ex-gays” — who typically remain “ex” for a short while and who often marry floridly feminine women in the attempt to prove their virility — are notorious for their rabid support of such “therapy” as that marketed by Mike Johnson and his florid wife.
As a congressman, Johnson has championed a national version of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation. He blathers that the “Democrat [sic] Party and their cultural allies are on a misguided crusade to immerse young children in sexual imagery and radical gender ideology.”
Since Republicans elected Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House, a massive amount of information has come out about the shadowy representative from Louisiana. The person now second in line to the presidency — after the Vice-President — is a climate-skeptic who tried to overturn the 2020 election. He is virulently anti-abortion and claims to believe that mass shootings are caused by the teaching of evolution.
His vile, devious wife, a shoo-in for Real Housewives of Shreveport, is as bad — perhaps worse. Kelly Johnson runs a counseling business that in its operating documents compares being gay to, among other things, having sex with a family member or an animal. Specifically, the 2017 operating agreement of Onward Christian Counseling Services states: “We believe, and the Bible teaches, that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one’s sex, or disagreement with one’s biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God.”
Her husband, who previously practiced law, notarized the document, and his signature appears on the last page. Since Johnson’s election as Speaker, the company’s website is no longer accessible online.
Johnson’s 24/7 obsession with the sex lives of others raises a number of questions — not one of which is likely to be answered unless someone digs deeper into the couple’s murky past. The most obvious question, and the most glaringly unanswered, is whether Kelly Johnson’s so-called “therapy” was ever applied to her husband.
Of the hateful things he has written about the LGBTQ+ community over the years, Johnson told loathesome Sean Hannity of Fox News, “I don’t even remember some of them.” He added, “I genuinely love all people regardless of their lifestyle choices,” which is the kind of statement made by Roman Catholic murderers in the Spanish Inquisition as they burned “heretics” at the stake, and by their equivalents in the Protestant Reformation as they did the same to papists.
How can even a scumbag like Mike Johnson be so disingenuous? He loves all those whose happiness, comfort, whose very lives he seeks to jeopardize. He is on record as supporting criminilization of gay sex. He is vehemently opposed to same-sex marriage and to all protection of it. And to the adoption, by gay couples, of children who might otherwise end up on homeless on the street.
Which leads to the “adoption,” more or less, by Johnson and his wretched wife, of a 14-year-old African-American boy. They have never explained the circumstances under which they took the adolescent into their home — supposedly to blend him with their family. Yet the boy was never formally adopted. Nor is it clear whether he came into the home when Mike Johnson was a single man in his twenties — a mere eleven or twelve years older than the boy.
This eyebrow-raising scenario shows Johnson as a hypocrite whose hard-shell biblical philosophy not only lapses but puddles to excremental mush. That “philosophy” is his fundamentalist mantra: “Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it — that’s my worldview. That’s what I believe, and so I make no apologies for it.”
But when the boy came along, Johnson forgot to pick up his Bible. Otherwise, he would have read, in 1 Thessalonians 5:22: “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” (King James Version) In Johnson’s twisted worldview, the cohabitation of an older man and a boy in his early teens smacks of — well, the possibilities are obvious.
The paragraphs below are excerpted from Substack’s The Status Kuo of November 2, 2023. This is an exceptionally accurate and perceptive newsletter by Jay Kuo, who describes his analyses as “a deep dive each weekday into important political and legal topics, broken down in plain English and easily digestible morsels.”
Speaker Mike Johnson’s Past Holds Many Unanswered Questions
And the Johnsons are busily trying to scrub it all
Wait, he has a Black son?
In 1997, or perhaps 1999, a 25- or 27-year old Mike Johnson “took custody” of a 14-year old teenager named Michael. There isn’t a clear record, at least not yet, of whether this was an adoption or a fostering arrangement, although the latter seems more likely. Johnson claims that his wife Kelly and he took in Michael as newlyweds, but again the timeline isn’t clear.
As Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo noted, in 2019 during a hearing covered by The Advocate, Johnson said he and his wife took custody of Michael “22 years ago when we were just newlyweds”—which would have been 1997. But that doesn’t quite add up, because the Johnsons were married in 1999, according to People Magazine.
If this seems like a quibble, it still raises a real question: What agency would give a single 25-year old man custody of a 14-year old teenager?
Marshall’s piece ends with a curious stonewalling by Johnson on the question:
“When The Advocate asked Johnson’s spokeswoman Ainsley Holyfield to elaborate on the relationship between Michael and Johnson’s family back in 2019 she told the paper: ‘The congressman will not be commenting further than what was said today in committee out of respect for Michael, his privacy and their relationship.’ ”
Although Johnson has mentioned his black son Michael when he wants to make a point about race—for example, he stated in that same hearing in 2019 that Michael was opposed to reparations—Michael does not appear in any recent family photos, nor in Johnson’s official biography.
Johnson explains the absence by citing Michael’s desire for privacy. Johnson has also been attacked by the right for speaking up about the racial inequality he has witnessed in Michael’s life compared to his natural born son, which could also explain why Johnson would rather not put a target on his family now.
In a statement to Newsweek, which inquired about his son’s absence from the website and from his biography, Johnson’s communications director said, “When Speaker Johnson first ran for Congress in 2016, he and his wife, Kelly, spoke to their son Michael—who they took in as newlyweds when Michael was 14 years old.”
She continued, “At the time of the Speaker’s election to Congress, Michael was an adult with a family of his own. He asked not to be involved in their new public life. The Speaker has respected that sentiment throughout his career and maintains a close relationship with Michael to this day.”
Quotes from The Status Kuo of November 2, 2023, end here. But there is much, much more on that day’s post, including Mike Johnson’s professional association with a man facing multiple allegations, by men, of sexual assault, including while they were children.
Michael and Kelly Johnson’s “son” is Michael Tirrell James, about whom revealing information is widely available online.
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