New House speaker nominee Mike Johnson is an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist who once worked for a hate group

He once criticized an advocacy organization for perpetuating the message “that homosexuality is good for society.”

Rep. Mike Johnson
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Since ousting Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) earlier this month, House Republicans have struggled to find a replacement. So far, Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Tom Emmer (R-MN) have all proven unable to obtain the 217 votes necessary to secure a majority, leaving the House essentially paralyzed.

On Tuesday night, House Republicans chose their fourth nominee for Speaker, after Emmer dropped out of the race mere hours after he was nominated due to far-right backlash. Next up in this embarrassingly protracted process is Rep Mike Johnson (R-LA), who the New York Times describes as a little-known hard-line social conservative.

When it comes to LGBTQ+ issues, that may be a bit of an understatement.

Prior to serving in the Louisiana House of Representatives from February 2015 to January 2017, Johnson was a senior attorney and national media spokesman for anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (then called…

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