Mike Johnson Once Fought to Block a Married Same-Sex Family’s Adoption: Report
He’s now the new Republican Speaker of the House but a decade ago, attorney Mike Johnson worked to block a legally-married woman from adopting her wife’s biological child.
By 2014, Johnson had already built a history of working on causes embraced by the religious right, according to a new report by Accountable.US, which USA Today describes as a “progressive watchdog group.” That report details some of Johnson’s legal work with or for conservatives and the religious right, dating as far back as 2003, when Johnson worked in support of the now disgraced and twice-removed former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. “Johnson represented anti-LGBTQ Focus On The Family in an amicus brief in support of far-right judge Roy Moore and a two-and a half ton Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama state judicial building,” according to Accountable.US.
Quoting the Journal of Civil Law Studies on Johnson representing “Louisiana as the state attempted to bar a mother from adopting her wife’s biological son,” Accountable.US explains: READ MORE: Buttigieg Responds to Mike Johnson’s Homophobic Claim Same-Sex Marriage Is a ‘Dark Harbinger’ “In 2004, Chasity Brewer gave birth to a baby boy while living in California.
At the time, Brewer was unmarried, and the child was conceived as a result of insemination by an anonymous sperm donor. In 2008, Brewer and her partner, Angela Costanza, were married in California, where same-sex marriages are permitted.
