New Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote in support of criminalizing gay sex and voted against legal recognition of same sex marriage. He also voted for a nationwide abortion ban.
And every Republican in the House just voted for him to be Speaker.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile/index.html
@danwentzel that's a mischaracterization of what the article presents, though.
The examples CNN provides don't support criminalizing of gay sex, but rather call out the Supreme Court for supposedly overstepping its authority to do the opposite, to insist on nullifying laws.
That's an argument about how federal and state courts interact, which is a serious topic, not one in favor of calling states to adopt certain laws, which is pretty much the opposite.
And that's not even getting into his writing as part of his job as a lawyer involved in a case.
