What is US House Speaker Mike Johnson’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights?
US Representative Mike Johnson was elected last week by his fellow Republicans to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives, after three weeks of turmoil and several failed candidates.
An evangelical Christian who describes himself as a life-long conservative, Johnson, 51, opposes abortion rights and is perhaps best known for his defense of former President Donald Trump‘s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Here is a look at what his election might mean for LGBTQIA+ Americans: What has Johnson said about LGBTQIA+ rights? Prior to Congress, Johnson was a lawyer who mainly worked on religious freedom issues, successfully defending Louisiana’s same-sex marriage ban in 2004.
While working as an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in the early 2000s, a conservative legal advocacy job, Johnson wrote about issues such as same-sex marriage for a newspaper in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
