House Speaker Mike Johnson says God will punish “depraved” U.S. because more teens identify as LGBTQ+

Fuck this guy so much.

Mike Johnson: "Look it's not my fault that I'm making this country shitty, it is those pesky LGBTQ+ people."

Johnson then wrote that he worries that “our culture has fallen so far” since the United States’ founding in 1776. “I fear America may be beyond redemption,” he adds.

Since 1776? The year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? I would think America got quite a bit better since then. I can think of just a few things that have made it better like:

• 1787 Creation and signing of the US Constitution including that 1st Amendment including the words "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
• 1865 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States
• 1870 15th Amendment granting black men the right to vote.
• 1920 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote and was ratified by the states

If Mike Johnson sees these things as a decline of the United States since the Declaration of Independence, he is saying he is seeing other besides white men gaining the ability to vote as a bad thing.

Republicans, your chosen Speaker of the House sees the Constitution of the United States as a negative thing!

If God is punishing us, he's doing it by sending a plague of Republicans.

As House Speaker, it is not your job to speak on behalf of God.

Perhaps leave that to the popes.

Seriously, who can possibly be so invested in the personal lives and relationships of others?

I genuinely don't understand how you can waste your time with that amount of hate.

It's extremism, plain and simple. Live the life you want and let others live theirs.

Be kind. Support one another despite any differences we may have. Seriously, WTF?

The older I get the weirder it gets to me that grown adults have an imaginary friend who tells them to be bigoted.

If I had an imaginary friend I would want it to be like Scorpio in Farscape. Someone who could give me insights I didn't think of, someone to bounce ideas off of, and maybe turn on painkillers in situations where I need one.

Okay, let's see "God" come on down and do that. Until then I'm gonna continue being "depraved" fucking nut jobs.

It's getting more and more difficult to understand where they are coming from. I ask my boyfriend what we want to make for dinner, while our speaker asks his son, a minor, to monitor him so that he doesn't get addicted to porn. The relationship I have with my boyfriend is just as healthy, maybe even more healthy than the relationships I've had with women. I give people a pass in the 00s since being queer was rare, but queer people have been in the mainstream for well over a decade at this point, and we are a known quantity. We just want a happy life like everyone else. That's it.

I often laugh that some religious people most likely spend more time thinking about gay sex than we do. Which is once a week if that for us.

How can he be anti-gay when he has Trump's cock in his mouth and ass 24/7?

My 13-year-old daughter like girls much more than boys.

I'm fucking terrified that he's in power.

If god was real, the sky would open up and he'd smush this stupid fuck for using his namesake to spread lies, fear, and bullshit

I'm not concerned the wrath of a fictional character.

Actually god told me that he hates Mike Johnson because his last name means penis and that’s fucking gay.

Maybe God is punishing us because we elect imbeciles.

That's not good. I mean seriously God is going to punish America. We don't know when or how but it's going to bad. If you are a God Fearing Republican, please evacuate now! Mexico, Canada, Cuba. It doesn't matter just get out of America before it's too late! And stay out! For your safety. Think of the children.

Question seven from the "Taliban or Mike Johnson" party game.

Please, ask god to stop priests and church leaders from molesting children. Thanks.

I really fail to see how we can progress as a species when we allow trashbags like this to not only accumulate power but elevate themselves to the highest positions of power in this country.

It's time to arm up and fight back, friends. These people do no live in enough fear.

Get these fucking mentally ill cunts out of politics! These idiots believe in magic and mean to force their irrational shit upon us all!

Considering LGBTQ+ is a protected group in the USA, surely the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's comments are tantamount to criminal harassment if not hate motivated harassment.

I'd like to see him try.

But it looks like this asshole is going to punish America instead.

Is this "god" in the room with us right now?

OOOooh punish me sky daddy

This guy seems like a bit of a dickhead

It is always some hateful delusional person talking about God is going to hate people for being LGBTQ.

Christians make God sound like such a nice guy who totally deserves worship!

So the dude is a straight up lunatic? He belongs inside a fuckin insane asylum.

I’m sick of these America-hating assholes bad-mouthing MY COUNTRY.

If you hate freedom so much, you’re FREE to LEAVE!!!

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My go to is always number of hurricanes that hit fabulous san francisco vs the conservative gulf states.

Don't worry though, God won't be mad anymore if Republicans win. Nothing will change, but God will no longer be mad. God is only mad if Democrats are in charge.

This week, Johnson is delivering the keynote speech at a gala for the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL), a Christian Nationalist group with ties to massively influential conservative groups.

"[...] I cannot conclude anything other than America is hanging on by a thread.”

I sincerely agree, Mr. Johnson.

Then let God punish us and stop trying to do it yourself.

Hey Mike, you are the depravity. You outed yourself as an anti-American neofascist when you tried to overthrow democracy and replace it with a dictatorship.

You know what really pisses me off? When they say shit like "identifying" as lgbtq which sounds very close to "it's a choice to be gay".

If the above two statements are true (which they are not in context to this post) then being a straight white male is also a choice! There's no double standard here!

Which logically, if it's a choice either way then these straight white men are just as gay as everyone else, they're just choosing to be straight!

Imagine giving an entire species free will to do whatever they want, then getting pissed off because of how a % of that species decides to find pleasure and get into relationships, and then collectively punishing a specific geographical region based on that small %.

At the risk of sounding like an edgy reddit atheist...

God isn't real, and most of those teens don't believe in him as there is no evidence such a thing exists.

The weirdest part is if an uprising ever happen in the US due to their decades of terrible policy making; they'll blame the gays and Muslims for it all. So yes, their technically right...

I wonder when are we going to learn it was all projection?

You know what I love in my government? Religion /s

"God is mocked openly in the public square"

Lucky one. Other gods are forgotten.

This "reasoning" is quite similar to what patriarch Kirill of Moskov declared a year ago, with the difference that it referred to the depraved "West" (not US specifically). He was harshly criticized by western media and even ridiculed for being expression of a retrograde and superstitious approach to religion.

Ironically, now the most democratic country of the world, the homeland of freedom itself, is having its political (not even religious) leaders telling basically the same thing.

How quickly the tide turns.

Again with the fear mongering over people that mean absolutely no harm to you as a human and are not ruining the country at all, maybe just to your career for being a prick

Pretty sure Jesus would say "love thy LGBTQIA+ neighbor" if he were present, but no, gotta crusade against the minorities because of some Old Testament law that was fulfilled by Jesus's sacrifice in the New Testament anyways

Not to mention the perpetual insinuation of America = Ancient Israel 2.0 which is a load of crap, this is an agnostic nation and always was

Did anyone read the email? It’s basically out of 1940. Also,

Johnson may not realize that the reason why more youth identified as non-heterosexual in the CDC’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey was because it changed its questions on sexual identity. The most recent YRBSS survey included the two following new options for students to describe their sexual identities: “I am not sure about my sexual identity (questioning),” or, “I describe my sexual identity in some other way.”

Lmao. “NO! You have to be SURE about it! Have straight sex NOW!”

In mysterious ways, right?

Such a negative human being.

Mike longed to see depraved gay teens being punished, but he can't watch those videos without his son knowing.

Can he smite the hate-filled GOP first?

Someone found dad's yiff stash and really pissed him off

Why would I repent to a god so insecure it can’t handle mortal mockery?

I bet he's secretly ultra gay

We need some sort of sanity test before allowing people to take office in the U.S.

Of course the first people they'll come for is trans people and other people will allow it

Your presence is punishment enough.

Cool... cool cool cool... So if it's Gods job you are going to start taxing the rich and providing services and governance? No? Ah beans.

If god existed she’d turn Mike Johnson into a newt.

Really enticing those log cabin Republicans to maintain their support. /s

I’m sure God likes you putting words in His mouth, Mikey

I got the 666th upvote, nice

God doesn't do anything anymore. In the bible times he was powerful. I think his mojo wore off.

How about that? Isn't it usually your enemies who threaten you with the wrath of god?

He can believe that if he wants. I'm not a fan of his aesthetic, though.

If all Americans went out and voted in their congressional elections, you guys wouldn't be in this mess. I worry that the US will fall into fascism not because of Christian nationalists, but because of excessive political apathy.

What a turd

Could you maybe ask him not to?

Meanwhile, God is good with the US setting yet another firearm mass murder yearly record because for sure God is a second amendment advocate.

It's this another round of Republicans blaming the increase in hurricanes on gay people?

God should’ve made them not LGBTQ+ then Mike. Seems like Johnson’s argument is with God. Good luck with her.

Thank you for the recognition Mike! I am prepared to personally accept whatever award you have for making God angry. It'd be a goddamn pleasure!

Indeed. God of the Bible is great with collective punishment.

Asshole.

Boy I'm glad so many people are religious out of politeness so morons like this don't just get laughed out of the room.

I don't subscribe to the assertion that most anti homosexual activists are closeted but this guy for sure is. His "son" and jerk off monitoring plus this type of statement is pretty clear evidence that he really wants dick but is terrified of acting on it.

With the way the country is going he might just be right

this guy deserves the same treatment as nancy pelosi's husband

We have real problems in this country and this guy is like "we need to make things worse for non cishet people". What the fuck is wrong with this guy.

Revelation 22:15; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; Galatians 5:19–21; Ephesians 5:5; 1 Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 12:14

15 eOutside are fthe dogs gand sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous1 will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: xneither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,2 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

19 Now bthe works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, cdivisions, 21 envy,1 drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that dthose who do2 such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

5 For you may be sure of this, that ueveryone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (vthat is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

9 understanding this, that the slaw is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

14 sStrive for peace with everyone, and for the tholiness uwithout which no one will see the Lord.

ESV. Additional letters within text are links to cross-references to other texts.

Religious zealots vs people obsessed with their genitals. There are no winners on either side.

I want everyone to become LGBT in US and Europe. Everyyyyyyyyoooooonnnnnee!

This will make Iran, China, Russia and other countries better off - economically, militarily and population-wise.

The more lgbt teens in the US, the better it is for its rivals - China, Russia, Iran.... And for the rest of the world.

So I'm for more of the libertities of lbgt in US and Europe, and that everyone to become lgbt there.