Buttigieg Responds to Mike Johnson’s Homophobic Claim Same-Sex Marriage Is a ‘Dark Harbinger’
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg responded to homophobic remarks Mike Johnson once made about same-sex marriage by inviting the Republican Speaker of the House to his home to meet his husband Chasten and the couple’s toddler twins.
While working for the Alliance Defense Fund, now renamed the Alliance Defending Freedom, Johnson penned a 2004 op-ed resurfaced by CNN’s KFile.
It calls what would become the national conversation on same-sex marriage, “a cataclysmic battle that will soon decide whether the sacred institutions of marriage and the traditional family are ultimately preserved or discarded by our increasingly secularized society.” “Experts project” Johnson also claimed in that op-ed, “that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.” Eleven years later the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have the same constitutional rights and responsibilities to marriage as different-sex couples.
