Audio Shows Mike Johnson Promoting Ex-Gay Torture

Audio Shows Mike Johnson Promoting Ex-Gay Torture

I have been reading rumors that Mike Johnson was a regular in a popular gay bar and was well known to go home with men.  He also is said to be currently exchange emails with the boy about their shared “addiction to porn and masturbation”.  He adopted the boy who was 14 when he was a single man, just as Matt Gaetz adopted the preteen Nestor.  I am not able to confirm yet the gay rumors, and there is no reason to suspect child abuse just because he was single at the time of adoption, but I do find it weird to be sharing with your son that you have an addition to porn and love to masturbate?  But I am sure the truth will come out.  So many of these rabid anti-gay religious people are gay and think god will cure them.   It is the same with gay guys who go into the military to “man up and go straight”.  It doesn’t work.  Hugs.  Scottie

 

“It’s time for an honest conversation about homosexuality. There’s freedom to change if you want to. Our race, the size of our feet, the color of our eyes, these are things we’re born with and cannot change. But what these adult advocacy groups like the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network are promoting is a type of behavior. Homosexual behavior is something you do. It’s not something that you are.” – House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaking about the now-defunct ex-gay torture group Exodus International and his joint mission with them on a Christian counter protest to the annual anti-bullying Day Of Silence. As you’ll see in the clip below, Johnson goes on to blame the acceptance of homosexuality for the fall of the Roman Empire. Yes, really.

 

JoeMyGod Mod20 hours ago

“The guilty dogs bark the loudest.” – My late grandmother Gigi Love.

VodkaAndPolitics  JoeMyGod20 hours ago

Lady’s and Gentleman, looks like we’ve got an “ex” gay on our hands.

AaronD12  VodkaAndPolitics20 hours ago

No, we have a bisexual who can choose to be gay or to be straight. He just doesn’t know that he’s bi.

Wallace Muenzenberger  AaronD1217 hours ago edited

The real choice is to be open about who one is (bi, queer, whatever) and thus live a happy, productive life! Or, to pretend to hide (closet) oneself from who one is and thus make themself, and everyone else as well, miserable!

I’m always reminded of the line from the movie Auntie Mame (1958) with Rosalind Russell as Mame Dennis where she says, “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!“

clay 20 hours ago

What I hear him saying is . . . he’s gay, but doesn’t let himself have sex, or even loving relationships, with men (including himself).

AaronD12  GayOldLady20 hours ago

If you say it’s a constant struggle not to be gay, you’re probably gay.

If you say it’s your choice to be gay, you’re probably bisexual.

Sashineb  clay19 hours ago

I can’t wait for a former college roommate to spill the beans about this creep.

Longpole  clay17 hours ago

His religion won’t allow him.

clay  Longpole16 hours ago

His religion is a choice, his choice.

JTO 20 hours ago

This fall of the Roman Empire hypothesis is so irritating, because it is demonstrably false. Homosexuality was considered to be a normal facet of human sexuality in Europe for millennia. Rome fell after it was Christianized and Abrahamic prohibitions were introduced into Europe for the first time.

Houndentenor  JTO20 hours ago

Wow, they really are recycling all the oldies for this tour.

When someone says “every empire that fell accepted homosexuality”, I ask “name me one empire that didn’t fall.” They can’t. Empires rise and fall. Empires eventually overreach. It’s unsustainable. So of course they always collapse. It’s just a question of when.

Charlie In SF  JTO20 hours ago

I think plague, Germanization of the army, and widespread use of lead piping also had something to do with the Western Roman Empire’s demise.

Sarah  Charlie In SF20 hours ago

Yeah, there was a lot going on:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…

Note that the article doesn’t mention “homosexuality” at all. Know what it does mention as a factor? Religion.

Flora DeMann  Sarah20 hours ago

Nor is homosexuality mentioned in “The Fall of the Roman Empire” (1964). I’m not ready to watch all three hours to be sure of that, although there are some compelling gladiator scenes.

 

Sarah  Flora DeMann 20 hours ago edited

XD

It just bugs me when I see that crap pushed. I took a couple of courses on Rome back in college (yay, History 114A through 114C!), and the collapse of the Western Empire is a *huge* subject, one that I doubt people like Johnson have ever studied in any detail.

RWAlex  Charlie In SF20 hours ago edited

Some of the thesis of E. Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” was that Christianity, and it’s divisions, politicization, and diversion of resources of the Empire to the Church, was responsible for the Empire’s fall.
It’s not generally accepted today, but his critique is worth noting.
When I tell people talking about “Roman Decadence destroyed the empire” that Rome didn’t fall (in 410 CE) until Christianity was Established as the sole religion, and Alaric the Goth was as Christian as Pope Honorius, they don’t believe me.
And then there’s that inconvenient Byzantine empire surviving another 1000 years…

JCF  JTO13 hours ago

I would dispute whether it was known as “homosexuality,” as such.

Our concepts of sexuality and sexual orientation really emerged in the 19th century, and I think it’s questionable at best, to impose these concepts onto antiquity.

Sexual behavior was all about the person who had the POWER to do what he (yes, always he) wanted. Generally, however, high status males were presumed to want to reproduce, legitimately, to produce an heir(s). Anything other than that was, again, about the power to do it. Women, slaves, certain untouchable classes had NO power, and anything could be done TO them.

I reeeeeeeeally don’t want to Go Back to what was considered “normal” in antiquity.

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