Get this. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who’s weaponizing the U.S. Home of Representatives towards President Biden’s baby Hunter, thinks it’s completely unfair for anybody to even speak about his spouse and she or he thinks God made him Speaker.
After it was revealed that Speaker Mike Johnson’s spouse Kelly Johnson ran a so-called Christian counseling companies affiliated with the Cypress Baptist Church in Benton, Louisiana, which did “temperament remedy” and compares homosexual folks to beastiality and believes intercourse out of wedlock “offends God,” former skilled liar Trump White Home press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had the Johnson’s on Fox to commiserate about simply how horrible the “assaults” on her are.
Watch right here (my daring):
Mike Johnson’s spouse Kelly simply responded after it was revealed her “Christian Counseling Providers” evaluate homosexual folks to bestiality and say intercourse out of wedlock “offends God.”
She stated she “felt burdened for therefore many individuals” & says “God” made Mike Johnson Speaker. “It’s Biblical.” pic.twitter.com/Ar00R7F50R
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Q: However Kelly, they’ve additionally come after you personally attacked you. You’re a Christian counselor, a lady of God attacked your occupation. What’s your response to that?
Kelly Johnson: Properly, you realize, I was a faculty instructor and I like that, however I simply felt burdened for therefore many individuals, and I felt the calling to return to highschool to change into a Christian counselor. And it’s as a result of I like folks after I need to have the ability to assist them via their occasions of battle and struggling. And I like what I do. Completely like it.
Mike Johnson: As a husband, you realize, I’ll take any arrows. That’s fantastic. However Don’t speak about my spouse, for goodness sake. She’s the kindest, sweetest individual on the planet and anyone they interview, anyplace, at any stage of her life will inform you about this woman proper right here.
Q: Oh, I like that. And the way are your children coping with all of it?
Kelly Johnson: They’re doing fairly properly. Um, I feel they’re additionally nonetheless in shock trigger it’s nonetheless so new. However, um, they’re happy with their dad and, they usually’re excited. They’re excited for what’s forward. Do you consider your husband is right here on this position, um, for such a time as this, at this explicit second for a purpose?
I do. I do. I consider that God has positioned him right here. That’s biblical. The Bible says he raises up leaders and he, he brings them down, proper? So he, so I consider that God has him right here for simply this time.
Utilizing that Michelle Duggar voice that whisper-screams “I’m not a menace! I may be silenced at any second!” to insecure males the nation vast, Kelly explains how she felt the “calling” to return to highschool to change into a Christian counselor, though it’s not clear if she is going to proceed “counseling” folks to hate themselves and pushing to disclaim women and girls the proper to dwell (Kelly is an adviser to the Louisiana misnamed “Proper for Life”).
Kelly’s counseling web site grew to become “inaccessible” final week, not lengthy after Mike was chosen by Devil (insert your individual beliefs right here, none of that is reputable below the Structure) to bankrupt the nation, shut down the federal government (Putin is so happy, reward God!) and produce down international democracy for “God.” It now says it’s not related to a site but. I suppose God didn’t suppose she ought to be educating folks to hate themselves, in spite of everything.
These “choices” are introduced or imposed upon weak folks “exterior of extra conventional state-licensed settings in order that counselors and shoppers may be totally engaged via their religion,” in keeping with Enterprise Insider.
In different phrases, none of that is reputable, knowledge-based counseling or perhaps a combination of counseling with a Biblical bent. Kelly’s counseling beliefs are based mostly on a pair who cited an anti-semite and anti-Catholic Tim LaHaye. That doesn’t imply she’s both of these issues, however the foundation for the counseling isn’t… “uplifted” beliefs.
These are small-minded, power-grabbing and judgemental beliefs — which is to say, the alternative of high-minded spiritual teachings that decision on folks to be their finest selves, be type to their neighbors and uplift social justice.
Apparently, the Johnsons’ God is cool with attacking the President’s son whereas he recovers from a drug dependancy and deep grief over dropping his finest pal and brother for one thing that the DOJ is already prosecuting him over. I’ve to confess, this doesn’t strike me as very Christian.
However lest you get the concept Mike Johnson is one other right-wing hypocrite utilizing God to cover his grift for the rich, let me set you straight (pardon the pun). Mike Johnson is a hypocrite, however not for these causes. Mike Johnson is that breed that’s most simply manipulated: Mike Johnson is a real believer in his personal divine superiority. These are the kinds the Republican Get together makes use of and abuses till they’re washed up and find yourself despatched residence to Alaska to observe Russia from their yard.
You would possibly discover that folk who cite God as their energy supply appear very clear that once they get chosen, it’s God’s will. When others are chosen, it’s a mistake. An error, by God, if you’ll. God’s failing, maybe, in not “elevating up” the divinely privileged. God apparently has loads of spare time to control the Speaker election inside a celebration, whereas no time to spare to assist kids being attacked in struggle.
Mike Johnson has lengthy believed the tradition struggle he waged together with his authorized work is a type of ministry.
“Some persons are known as to pastoral ministry and others to music ministry, and so forth. I used to be known as to authorized ministry and I’ve been out on the entrance traces of the ‘tradition struggle’ defending spiritual freedom, the sanctity of human life, and biblical values, together with the protection of conventional marriage, and different beliefs like these once they’ve been below assault,” Johnson stated to the Baptist Message, lengthy earlier than he knew each interview he gave was going to be scrutinized.
However Johnson won’t ever be as scrutinized as somebody working for president. The tame temperature of the media asking questions on his and his spouse’s beliefs, which they’ve put on the market for years and acted on in a public manner, is nothing just like the searing sizzling flame Johnson is placing on the President’s son and the Proper have placed on the President’s youngest daughter, together with stealing her diary to promote to Proper wing activist group (and generally felony operation) Venture Veritas.
Johnson desires folks to depart his spouse alone, however his personal selections have proven that he thinks household is decidedly NOT off limits.
Additionally, it’s a shock to study that the Johnsons suppose God is towards democracy to the purpose that God would select to return down right here to Earth when there have been so many different leaders who ought to be changed, to intervene within the U.S. Speaker race on the final minute by pushing because the fourth candidate, Mike Johnson, an architect of January sixth.
This God, the Johnsons’ God, has some explaining to do.
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