'Go pick up a Bible': Speaker Mike Johnson defends anti-LGBTQ+ views

[dalton99a]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/27/mike-johnson-christian-bible-lgbtq-abortion-rights

‘Go pick up a Bible’: Speaker Mike Johnson defends anti-LGBTQ+ views
Republican House speaker, who has advanced extreme views as attorney and legislator, says ‘I am a Bible-believing Christian’
Martin Pengelly in Washington
Fri 27 Oct 2023 08.45 EDT

Questioned about comments and actions deemed by many to be homophobic, the new Republican US House speaker, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, told Fox News his worldview was: “Go pick up a Bible.”

Speaking on Thursday, Johnson said he “genuinely love[d] all people regardless of their lifestyle choices.

“This is not about the people themselves. I am a Bible-believing Christian. Someone asked me today in the media, they said, ‘… People are curious. What does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?’ I said, well, 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.”

The Louisianan, 51, won his final vote without Republican dissent but is a controversial pick nonetheless. Before entering Congress in 2016, he was an attorney for rightwing Christian groups and a state legislator. In both roles he advanced extreme views, particularly against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

Johnson’s work for the Alliance Defending Freedom has attracted widespread attention. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors far-right activity, calls the ADF a hate group – a label it rejects.

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[ARPad95]

1. Then get out of SECULAR government and go be the bigoted preacher that you wannabe,

JACKASS!

I said, well, 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.”

[underpants]

2. What one fabric is his clothing made of?

https://www.politico.com/dims4/default/9c3d38b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4000x2667+0+0/resize/1260x840!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F5a%2F9a%2F2fa49bc74ee4b466d1ed0753d933%2Fhouse-of-representatives-76911.jpg

[thucythucy]

5. The Bible also says that evert fifty years there should be a year of Jubilee

during which all debts are forgiven.

So we're obviously overdue.

Student loans, medical debts, mortgages, credit card debt all should be forgiven.

That's only of course if you truly read and follow the Bible.

[Chipper Chat]

15. Hmmm...i wonder if he has PLAID UNDERWEAR

To go with his striped tie. ?
Check out yer Bible Mike.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. I bet he never said that to Trump.

[dalton99a]

11. The cult leader is exempt

[Marthe48]

4. How bout you pick up a Bible

and go thump yourself

[eppur_se_muova]

6. The Ayatollah has spoken.

All must obey! :hurl:

[The Magistrate]

7. Wake Me When He Denounces Divorced Colleagues For Their Damnable Adultery, Sir

And when he declares that by Biblical authority, clearly God has raised up Joseph Biden to be President over the land, for all in authority are, by quite clear statement in the New Testament, put in place by God.

[GuppyGal]

8. And that's just fine and dandy Mike, the problem is when you foist that shit on errrrbody else

ya fucking zealot numbnut.

[LastDemocratInSC]

14. Followers of Abrahamic religions seem to be at the root of many of our current problems.

[maxsolomon]

23. understatement post of the year.

many if not most of our historic problems, as well.

[vapor2]

42. 100%

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Oh, boy! At least he's right out front with

this stuff. Even religious people are really turned off by this kind of talk.

[Traildogbob]

10. Enough of the Bible shit

If the GQP want to shit on and shred the first Amendment, the second should be sliced and diced.
Separation of Church and State is clearly stated, and guns, militias and well regulated is as well. The read the “CONTSTITUTION”, as MTG pronounces it, the document she swore on the BUYBULL to protect, just like evilgelicals read that BUYBULL. All up to their own warped interpretation. And we all must live by.

[Fla Dem]

12. The United States is not governed by the bible, but by the US CONSTITUTION!!!!

OMG. What has the Republican party become.

[hibbing]

13. "lifestyle choices" we all know what that means n/t

[gratuitous]

16. So he endorses legislation . . .

So Mike will enact legislation that makes sure the hungry are fed, the homeless are sheltered, the sick and imprisoned are well cared for? He's going to welcome the alien and succor the widow and the orphan? He'll support economic programs that make sure that those who have much do not have too much and those who have little do not have too little? There's a LOT in the Bible about that, in both the Hebrew and the Christian Testaments.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

31. He wants the parts that make slavery legal

And selling daughters as sex slaves.

And forcing rape victims to marry their rapists.

And kidnapping and raping women to force them into marriage.

And killing witches and LGBT.

And killing anyone who picks up sticks on the Sabbath.

And murdering disobedient children.

And beating people who offend you.

And forcing women to have abortions.

And killing children for making fun of old guys.

You know. All those parts of the book most of its followers pretend don't exist.

[ancianita]

41. I've read the Bible twice (don't ask lol). I don't think

some of what's on your list are really in it, though. Maybe Leviticus, but... Definitely not in the New Testament, which is the actual basis of Christianity.

Just sayin'.

[hatrack]

17. Go pick up a tennis ball, and stuff it in your fat fucking self-righteous piehole.

However long this asshole stays in office is going to be way too many days too long.

[Johonny]

18. Read the Bible is a defense for weak minded

Thoughts that a person can't defend by logic. The idea liberals haven't read the Bible or aren't religious is silly. These American Taliban types are typically unable to produce sound policies and often simply use bigotry to distract from their number one tenant, greed is good. An idea not generally lavished by his beloved Jesus.

[czarjak]

19. Now, read it.

Love the sinner, hate the sin BS?

[vercetti2021]

20. I'll take the bible

And shove it up his slop hole. Fuck you asshole, come and arrest us commander Johnson.

[Chi67]

27. Yep

Fuck this piece of shit. He tries to come after me and mine, he'll regret it.

[ismnotwasm]

21. You know

I’ve been reading a lot about biblical stuff lately. What the texts say, in context with what would have been the original meaning at the time. “Homosexual orientation” didn’t exist in the minds of the writers, what they were talking about on the OT is taking a passive, penetrative role —like a woman—in other words, it’s misogynistic.
Abortion is in no way condemned in the Bible. They do a lot of biblical tap dancing to claim it does.

If I can do that, anyone can. Lots of info out there.

This horrific take is a deliberate choice. Which creeps me out.

[Blue Owl]

22. Can I hold it upside-down?

Really seemed to work for master criminal Donald tRump....

[sanatanadharma]

25. I will listen to him when he reads and explains in cultural milleu, the original Aramaic

I will listen to him when he reads and explains in cultural milieu, the original Aramaic.

In the meantime I will continue with my teacher of the Sanskrit Upanishads; way deeper than biblical exegesis.

[bullimiami]

26. Pick up a bible and selectively choose the parts you want and ignore the rest.

There are a whole lot of thou shalt nots that he is shalt-ing.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

32. Everybody who adheres to the cult

Picks and chooses what to follow from it. There are no exceptions.

Only a schizophrenic could practice everything it preaches without cognitive dissonance.

[stuck in the middle]

35. He doesn't know what it means to be a Christian. (nt)

[MOMFUDSKI]

28. How about after they pick it up

they cram it in your smarmy ass?

[Midnight Writer]

29. "This is not about the people themselves".

I'm pretty sure believing that certain folks should be "outlawed" is the definition of "about the people themselves".

Who would Jesus hate?

I'm sure I could scour the Bible and find reasons Speaker Mike Johnson should be "outlawed". Would he take that personally?

I'd rather lawmakers take their political believes from Aesop's Fables than The Bible.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

33. Do you want the list of who he hated?

Because it's not as short as you think it is.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

30. The problem is that your Big Book of Bad Ideas

Is not law, and nobody is required to follow any of it.

We're a secular government.

Deal with it, Nazi traitor scum.

[ancianita]

37. Actually it's a book of some good ideas -- not all, but mostly -- it's just that what HE says is in it is not true.

There's a list of sins Paul describes in Romans, sodomy being among twenty he lists. That's Paul being out there with the Gentiles.
Jesus never said any of that or even hinted that. Jesus believed that Law had an important and honorable place on earth -- not pharasaic law, not Pauline sin lists, but Roman law.

[twodogsbarking]

34. Fuck that.

[ancianita]

36. Go pick up Jesus, you cherry pickin' christofascist.

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality. But Jesus DID say, and is quoted:

"Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man." John 8:15

"Judge not, that ye be not judged." Matthew 7:1, Luke 6:37, Paul's letter to the Romans 2:1, 14:3-4, 10, 13

[stuck in the middle]

38. Bob Marley - Judge Not

[ancianita]

40. Amen! He knows the Bible better than megamaga mike.

[NowISeetheLight]

39. My Lifestyle

So I'm a "Lifestyle Choice".

- Worked for a living.
- Honorably discharged disabled veteran.
- Taxpayer.
- Law abiding.
- Cared for elderly parents.
- Care about the environment
- Monogamous and Married.
- Volunteer.
- Homeowner.
- Help my neighbors.
- Care about the poor.
- Donate money to charity.

Just exactly what is the horrible lifestyle I'm living?

[vapor2]

43. Can this nut job do any real damage to our democracy?

[maxrandb]

44. If I ever find Jesus, I'm kicking his ass

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[brewens]

45. Dang. Remember that toilet paper shortage? My Bible didn't survive that! LOL n/t

[bdamomma]

46. Maybe

it time to donate to this organization.

https://ffrf.org/