Far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid has smeared House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on national television over his vocal expressions of his Christian faith.
Speaker Johnson (R-LA) is not the least bit shy about his deeply held Christian faith.
His faith is key to his political views such as his pro-life opposition to abortion, strong support for traditional marriage between men and women, and disapproval of radical gender ideology and other alternative sexual behaviors and identities, among other things.
Those positions are normal among most Christian conservatives.
However, in the view of progressive leftist MSNBC’s Reid, they make Johnson a “Christian nationalist and anti-abortion zealot,” according to Breitbart.
On her “The ReidOut” program on Wednesday, MSNBC’s Reid said, “Abortion rights advocates have an unbroken winning streak with ballot measures since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.
“Now, advocates are racing to put the issue of abortion directly to voters in more states, with efforts in at least nine states to put abortion rights measures on the ballot in 2024.”
“It couldn’t come at a more critical time, especially now that Christian nationalist and anti-abortion zealot Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House,” she continued.
“We’re learning more about his extreme views as yet another batch of old interviews resurfaced, like this radio interview last year a month before Roe was overturned.”
The audio clip Reid then played featured Johnson referring to the practice of abortion as an “American Holocaust” as well as him calling out Planned Parenthood and “Big Abortion” for predominately establishing abortion clinics in the “inner cities” and viewing the minorities who live in such areas as “easy prey.”
“In another interview on the day Roe v. Wade was overturned, Johnson was asked about Clarence Thomas’ concurrence,” she continued.
“Thomas suggested the court should reconsider other decisions, like Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.
“Also known as ensuring access to contraception, the freedom to be in same-sex relationships, and legalized same-sex marriage.”
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What Reid referenced without context was Johnson’s agreement with a point made by Justice Thomas in a concurring opinion that if the underlying legal rationale that upheld Roe for decades was unconstitutional, then other decisions based on the same faulty logic should also be revisited by the court.
The old audio clips of Speaker Johnson that MSNBC’s Reid aired or referenced on her program were recently uncovered as part of an extensive — and some might argue obsessive — investigative effort by CNN to dig through decades of old audio from Johnson as an attorney and legislator in search of anything that could be used to stir up controversy against the new Republican leader.
Stretching back well more than a decade in some instances, CNN did produce a handful of audio clips of Johnson expressing personal views that, as noted, are shared by the vast majority of Christian conservatives and, despite claims to the contrary from the media and leftist activists and politicians, are not really outside the mainstream opinions of those who adhere to the Christian faith and its beliefs about the sanctity of life, marriage, and sexuality.
Again, that includes opposition to things like abortion and gay marriage, support for “biblical morality” being reintroduced into society and a belief that mankind is “inherently evil” and must be “restrained” from acting upon that inherent evil by the government, among other relatively standard Christian beliefs.
Joy Reid is certainly not the only leftist media figure to lambast and smear Speaker Johnson over his adherence to the fundamental tenets of his Christian faith.
Newsbusters reported last month on the early efforts by the media to find anything that could be used to damage the new Republican leader’s reputation.
The outlet noted that, eventually, “the media settled on their narrative: Mike Johnson is a far-right Christian extremist who wants to turn America into a fascistic theocracy.”
That led to multiple media figures labeling Johnson with purposely loaded terms like “extreme MAGA,” “far-right,” and “ultraconservative,” and even a claim that he is “more dangerous than Donald Trump” — an absurd but entirely predictable escalation of the left’s rhetoric about anybody to the right of Stalin or Mao.
Mike Johnson is, for all intents and purposes, a relatively normal if exceptionally faithful Christian conservative.
No amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth from media leftists is going to shame him into abandoning his core beliefs in order to appease them on issues he fundamentally disagrees with.
