Mike Johnson Spent Years Defending Christian Speech In Schools. “The ultimate goal of the enemy is silencing the Gospel,” the Republican said in 2004 after Jewish parents sued a school for pushing Christianity on their kids.
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Mike Johnson Spent Years Defending Christian Speech In Schools. “The ultimate goal of the enemy is silencing the Gospel,” the Republican said in 2004 after Jewish parents sued a school for pushing Christianity on their kids.
by southpawFA
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>***Johnson, who was a relatively unknown Louisiana congressman before being elected House speaker last month, previously spent eight years as senior attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom, an evangelical legal group focused on dismantling LGBTQ+ rights and outlawing abortion.***
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>It was in his role there that Johnson, a constitutional lawyer, took up case after case aimed at chipping away at the separation of church and state.In 2004, Johnson was the lead attorney for Stockwell Place Elementary when the Bossier Parish public school got sued for pushing Christianity on its students.
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>*A set of Jewish parents sued the school after learning it was holding prayer sessions, teaching Christian songs in class and promoting a teacher-led prayer group called Stallions for Christ that met during recess.*
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>The Jewish parents, who had two children at the school, also cited a teacher with a Christian cross on the classroom door, a Nativity scene in the school library and a graduation program featuring Christian songs and a student-led prayer, and religious speeches delivered by two local sheriff’s deputies.
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>*In their lawsuit, which you can read here, the parents claim their children were ridiculed and bullied by other kids for not participating in the religious songs. T****hey raised concerns with the principal, who allegedly responded by defending the school’s Nativity scene and religious songs, and told the parents to “deal with it.”***
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>***The parents also complained to the school superintendent, who allegedly defended the teacher-led prayer group because “this is the way things are done in the South” and “welcome to the Bible Belt.”***
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As I’ve said before, Christian nationalism is the biggest threat to the United States and its citizens. There are already Christian private schools that these parents could send their kids to if they wish. They already have Bible colleges and vacation Bible schools for Christian kids. However, it is never enough for Christian nationalists.
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They want all kids to be forced into their religion and for all freedom to be eradicated. They will not stop until everyone will live under His eye, with everyone forced to be broodmares whether they want it or not.
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They’re starting with LGBTQIA+ people, but no one is safe in Christian nationalism.
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Christian nationalism is seriously cruel and wicked.
God he’s a deluded loser, believes in big fairy-tale man in the sky. Grow up.
There will be no faith in any office of government while companies can buy politicians. If you really care about the people, tackle the issue of lobbying
No, the ultimate goal is to have christian fascists mind their own fucking business in the public sphere and respect the founding principal of separation of church and state.
Such a victim. Those poor persecuted christians. Let’s flip the script, shall we? “The ultimate goal of the enemy is silencing Black Lives Matter and the queer community.”
Like he has ever read the Gospel.
When you call those who disagree with you “the enemy” you have told me everything I need to know about you and your disdain for freedom.
The ultimate enemy of humanity is religious zealots.
Translation: Mike Johnson Spent Years Inflicting condemnatory Christo-fascism on Schools. “The ultimate goal of our take on the Gospel to silence our enemies and to replace the rule of law with the bible and ten commandments.”
>…defending Christian ~~speech~~ supremacy
FTFY
Change Christianity for Islam and we have ISIS/Taliban. I’m in Scotland but the repercussions of trump and him are scary for the world,not just America!
I am so sick of religious kooks trying to force the country into compliance. It’s just infuriating how many people seem to be just fine with it.
You know not everyone is Christian, right Mike? Mike??
Straight outta Gilead central casting. What a freak.
Whose the ‘enemy’?
This guy sees 78% of Americans as “the enemy” because they aren’t white Christian Evangelicals
Why of why oh why does America have to be saddled with assholes like him? No one cares that you are an Evangelical Christian, we care that you think everyone should be. How hard is it not to be a dick?
**G**roomers
**O**ffenders
**P**edophiles
Hopefully we keep learning more and more about how fucking insane Mr Handmaids Tale is in the next year. People need to be scared straight on him. Do know there is a movement to it more abortion measures on ballots in states, which may help. We’ll see but the idea of clearing out America’s actual history and actual science being shoved out of curriculum so religion can be rammed down the throats of students and tied to patriotism in public schools is about as terrifying as it gets
This is the kind of shit I’ve had to deal with my entire life living in the south. So called christians force their view upon the public and when anyone resists they are the “enemy”. They see enemies left and right, all while they’re doing all the same shit “sinners” are doing, and their kids are the worst of the worst and get away with all their misdeeds because they’re “good christians”.
To anyone arguing the MAGA crowd is just a extreme faction and average republicans aren’t like that: Kevin McCarthy could not get the votes needed to be speaker. This guy did.
Clearly this scuzz bucket does not belong in politics
This guy must have some serious guilt from something, he needs an exorcism.
Beware the leader who views you as “the enemy.”