Mike Johnson happily soaks up applause for being called a “despicable bigot”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
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A newly unearthed video from 2015 shows anti-LGBTQ+ House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) thanking audience members who applauded his being called a “despicable bigot of the highest order” for introducing an anti-LGBTQ+ bill in the Louisiana state legislature.

Johnson spoke at the 2015 Watchmen Summit, an event organized by the anti-LGBTQ+ organization Family Research Council (FRC). At the time, he served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and, in April 2015, he introduced the Marriage and Conscience Act, a bill that would have prevented the state government from punishing any person or individual who discriminated against same-sex couples. The bill would’ve allowed private businesses to deny partner benefits to an employee’s same-sex spouse, even if the businesses offered the same benefits to other employees’ different-sex spouses.

In his summit speech, Johnson said that, while watching Meet the Press one Sunday morning, he heard the show’s participants “saying…

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