Newly elected House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claims he does not remember “some of” the many, many anti-LGBTQ+ comments he’s made over the course of his career.
Johnson’s history of opposing LGBTQ+ rights has been well documented and stretches back to the early 2000s, when he worked as a senior attorney and national media spokesman for anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (then called the Alliance Defense Fund). Between 2003 and 2005, Johnson also wrote several editorials for Shreveport, Louisiana, paper The Times, criticizing the Supreme Court for striking down anti-sodomy laws, opposing same-sex marriage, and arguing against non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people.
So he’s either a bigot, which should disqualify him, or he’s got serious memory deficits, which should disqualify him. And this is the best ® they have.
I dont think that him being a bigot is in contention either way to be perfectly honest with you.
When dealing with Republicans, never assume incompetence when malice is a sufficient explanation.
There were better options that would’ve been less harmful to everyone living here but they had to go for the closest analog to Adolf Hitler they could possibly find because fuck your freedoms