Thread by @ashtonpittman

"You know, we don't live in a democracy" but a "biblical" republic.

That's what Mike Johnson said in a 2016 interview as he explained his views on the U.S. government.

That's what the new Republican House speaker, who tried to overturn the will of the voters in 2020, believes.

Mike Johnson in 2016: "What’s happened, Alex, over the last 60 or 70 years, is that our generation has been convinced that there is a separation of church and state. Most people think that that’s part of the Constitution, but it’s not.”

(It is: See The Establishment Clause).

Two things you should be clear about Speaker Mike Johnson:

1) He's not some Republican pandering to the extreme religious right and Christian dominionists; he's a true believer.

2) He's not some ignorant yahoo. He's very intelligent and serious about writing his views into law.

Mike Johnson was a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, the Christian-dominionist-aligned far-right legal group that, among other things, wrote the Mississippi law at the center of the Dobbs case with the intention of using it to overturn Roe v. Wade.
mississippifreepress.org/20042/to-rule-…

The ADF's tax filings said its goal was to "inspire a distinctly Christian worldview in every area of law, and particularly in the areas of public policy and religious liberty."

Mike Johnson worked for the ADF for years.

@MSFreePress story: mississippifreepress.org/20042/to-rule-…

@MSFreePress In 2003, Mike Johnson wrote that states should have the right not only to criminalize gay sex, but other sexual "deviancy"—like "the evils of sexual conduct outside marriage."

Mike Johnson doesn't just pander to Christian dominionists. He's one of them.

Mike Johnson's Christian dominionist leanings have also been reported at @bayoubrief: bayoubrief.com/2019/04/07/gim…

@bayoubrief @FredClarkson on dominionists: "If people are serious about their beliefs they find ways to act on them. And I think one of the failures of our society is that these folks were not taken seriously, and they’ve been able to fly underneath the radar.”

More: mississippifreepress.org/20042/to-rule-…

When Mike Johnson says he believes God raises up the people in authority, you should absolutely believe him and absolutely understand he believes he was chosen by God for this job.

Be sure to follow @MSFreePress and read how Christian dominionists and the ADF—which Mike Johnson worked for—engineered the legislation, the appointment of judges and the court case that overturned Roe v. Wade.

This is all part of a long-term plan.

Link:
mississippifreepress.org/20178/god-sele…

Here's the full 30 minute interview from 2016 with Mike Johnson.

It appears this 2016 Mike Johnson interview was filmed at Harlan Crow's private library at his residence:

https://twitter.com/booklockdown/status/1717501798792012278