‘Does America Need More God?’: Mike Johnson Laments LGBTQ High School Kids
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is promoting his far-Christian right beliefs in his latest fundraising email, which asks, “Does America Need More God, Patriot?”Johnson, who last year was the lead sponsor of a federal “Don’t Say Gay” bill, lamented in his email that an increasing number of high school students identify as LGBTQ+.
He also claimed “America is hanging on by a thread,” “I fear America may be beyond redemption,” and said, “we live in a depraved culture.”“I’m uneasy, Patriot,” Johnson’s email, sent via the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC), begins, as Insider reported. (Google cache copy here.) “This is Speaker Mike Johnson, and I just had to send this email.
I’ve been thinking about the state of our country, and I cannot conclude anything other than America is hanging on by a thread.
Our culture has fallen so far since the founding of our country, and it’s just getting worse.”READ MORE: Speaker Johnson Will Be Honored Tonight at Christian Nationalists’ Museum of the Bible Gala“Just consider the frightening drop in church attendance over the past several decades,” he continues. “1 in 4 high school students identifies as something other than straight- what are they being taught in school?
