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Speaker Johnson blasted for tying mass shootings to teaching evolution and no-fault divorce

Author:     David Badash
Source:     AlterNet
Publication Date:     October 26, 2023
 Link: Speaker Johnson blasted for tying mass shootings to teaching evolution and no-fault divorce
Stephan:  

He dresses well, speaks in a polite tone while smiling.  I suspect that is one of the reasons the Republicans chose him. He doesn’t look or sound like Jim Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, or the other MAGAt nutcases.  And yet the new Republican speaker is as much a fanatical christofascist as any of them, maybe even more so. There is only one way to resolve this. Those of us who care about democracy and wellbeing must vote entirely Democratic. Yes, yes, I know the Democrats are not perfect and have all kinds of issues. But as a party, they support democracy and sponsor legislation that fosters wellbeing.  It’s your choice.

The new MAGAt Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson Credit: NBC

Newly sworn-in Speaker Mike Johnson‘s record is being rapidly unearthed and critics are expressing anger and outrage that House Republicans have elevated what some are calling a far-right Christian nationalist to become the third most-powerful elected official in the country.

“While preaching a sermon in 2016,” MeidasTouch Network reports Thursday, “Johnson blamed mass shootings on the teaching of evolution.”

During his sermon at the Christian Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, Johnson said: “Some of you were around in the late 60s, you remember that what that was about? The counterculture revolution, Woodstock, and drugs and peace and free love and all that, but,” he claimed, it was “more about the undermining of the foundations of religion and morality.”

“Because if you remember in the late 60s we invented things like no-fault divorce laws. We invented the sexual revolution. We invented radical feminism. We invented legalized abortion in 1973, where the state government sanctioned the killing of the unborn,” he said.

“All these things happened […]

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