While preaching a sermon in 2016, newly elected GOP Speaker Mike Johnson blamed mass shootings on the teaching of evolution.... Johnson claimed the United States was founded as a Christian nation and then God was replaced over time for human reasoning. Johnson then said when the late 1960’s came it ushered in the “countercultural revolution, Woodstock, peace, and drugs” and further undermined religion and morality by introducing things like “no fault divorce laws” and “legalized abortion.” Johnson then argued this “path” led to school shootings and blamed these shootings on students being taught evolution:
“And 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.”
Before arriving in Washington less than a decade ago, House Speaker Mike
Johnson, a deeply religious Christian, was a legal crusader associated
with a fringe evangelical movement called “young Earth creationism,”
based on a literal reading of the Bible’s Book of Genesis that posits
the Earth is only several thousand years old. In
the mere hours since Johnson was elected speaker Wednesday, he hadn’t
had to address his views on creationism and evolution. But his close
ties to a leader of the creationist movement and his past legal work —
on behalf of the Ark Encounter creationist theme park, where children
can learn that dinosaurs were passengers on Noah’s Ark — seem to suggest
that he’s also personally aligned with these beliefs.
New House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told Fox News' Sean Hannity in his first interview as speaker that now isn't the time to discuss legislation to address the scourge of mass shootings. "The problem is the human heart, not guns," he said."It's not the weapon, it's the underlying problem," he added.... Johnson said it was inappropriate to discuss gun control "in the middle of the crisis."
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Not sure you can "re-emgineer" a rotten human heart, or ban its negative impact in our world, but I look forward to the esteemed Rep Johnsom's unremitting efforts to do so! In the mean time we must restrict access to certain firearms!
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