Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson

[John Clark]

The new Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is a young earth creationist who believes that the universe is not 13.8 billion years old but is less than 10,000 years old. He was successful in his fight to make Kentucky taxpayers pay 18 million dollars to fund a Noah’s Ark theme park which allows humans to ride animatronic dinosaurs which are on a full size Noah’s Ark. He said:

 “The 'Ark Encounter' is one way to bring people to this recognition of the truth, that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events”. 

Mike Johnson believes that the reason we have school shootings is because Darwin's theory of Evolution is taught there:

"People say, ‘How can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates?’  Because we’ve taught a whole generation, a couple generations now of Americans, that there’s no right or wrong, that it’s about survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime. Why is that life of any sacred value? Because there’s nobody sacred to whom it’s owed. None of this should surprise us.”

Mike Johnson talks about the “so-called separation of church and state” and said, “The founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around.” He has publicly praised “18th-century values” and told an audience that Americans should live by them when it comes to morality and religion. Even worse, he has close ties to "Christian Dominionists" who believe the US as a Christian nation and should go back to the religious values of the third, fourth and fifth centuries.

Oh I almost forgot one other little thing, Mike Johnson was one of 147 members of Congress who tried to destroy democracy in America by voting  to overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential election. So if Donald Trump loses the 2024 election he will most certainly claim that election was fraudulent too just as he has in every single election he has ever lost, he even claimed that the TV Emmy awards were crooked when his silly game show didn't get an Emmy. So now we know which side the speaker of the House Of Representatives will be on when they debate if the 2024 election should be certified. In the meantime I sure hope that Joe Biden and Pamela Harris remain healthy because otherwise it will be President Mike Johnson. 

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