So where in his Scooby Doo story do we pull off his mask and reveal the raging homosexual that he is…not that there’s anything wrong with that….just wanna see the hypocrisy on full display
Johnson then wrote that he worries that “our culture has fallen so far” since the United States’ founding in 1776. “I fear America may be beyond redemption,” he adds.
Since 1776? The year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? I would think America got quite a bit better since then. I can think of just a few things that have made it better like:
1787 Creation and signing of the US Constitution including that 1st Amendment including the words "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
1865 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States
1870 15th Amendment granting black men the right to vote.
1920 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote and was ratified by the states
If Mike Johnson sees these things as a decline of the United States since the Declaration of Independence, he is saying he is seeing other besides white men gaining the ability to vote as a bad thing.
Republicans, your chosen Speaker of the House sees the Constitution of the United States as a negative thing!
I mean tbf his ilk are really yearning for those articles of confederation days now that the tide on federation is beginning a grindingly slow turn against them
Something the sheer degree to which Millennials and Gen Z have embraced the cause of Palestine is probably putting into an extremely sharp focus as of late.
If Mike Johnson sees these things as a decline of the United States since the Declaration of Independence, he is saying he is seeing other besides white men gaining the ability to vote as a bad thing.
Life would be so much better if everyone just left each other alone. Like 90% of people in the world literally don't care the 10% that are making the world a crap place.
The older I get the weirder it gets to me that grown adults have an imaginary friend who tells them to be bigoted.
If I had an imaginary friend I would want it to be like Scorpio in Farscape. Someone who could give me insights I didn't think of, someone to bounce ideas off of, and maybe turn on painkillers in situations where I need one.
The older I get the weirder it gets to me that grown adults have an imaginary friend who tells them to be bigoted.
I honestly see it the other way around: bigots find sanctuary in places where critical thought is absent from the conversation. Its easier to push any agenda you want if the dogma is to take your leadership's word on faith alone. Being "religious" and invoking the name of god is being used here like a cheat code to get access to hearts and minds.
If I had an imaginary friend I would want it to be like Scorpio in Farscape. Someone who could give me insights I didn’t think of, someone to bounce ideas off of, and maybe turn on painkillers in situations where I need one.
Sorry that's not really possible. There is an alternative: mild schizophrenia for the company and dissociative disorder for the pain are the best we can do around here.
Agreed completely, particularly on the first paragraph.
I seriously doubt anybody has ever been a compassionate friend to all people, then one day was innocently reading their Bible like a Good Person, and turned into a raging bigot once they read something about a man not laying with a man as they would a woman, abomination, etc.
The religion is just an enforcement mechanism. When Junior starts thinking that just because gay sex seems icky to him personally, maybe it doesn’t make those people evil and unwelcome? Nope, gotta remind him that his icky feelings have the ultra-triple-dog-infinity-plus-infinity stamp of approval! SEARCH YOUR FEELINGS, JUNIOR! YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE!
What? All she has is looks and paranoia. Mind Scorpio is freaken smart, can override pain signals, and wake you up from a concussion to save your life. Plus he wears a Hawaiian shirt over BDSM leather somehow making it work.
In fact, established religion at the time generally supported monarchs. A monarchy gets its legitimacy from God at the ordination / coronation. The monarch needs the support of the church because they are supposed to be at least "chosen by God", if not divine themselves.
It's getting more and more difficult to understand where they are coming from. I ask my boyfriend what we want to make for dinner, while our speaker asks his son, a minor, to monitor him so that he doesn't get addicted to porn. The relationship I have with my boyfriend is just as healthy, maybe even more healthy than the relationships I've had with women. I give people a pass in the 00s since being queer was rare, but queer people have been in the mainstream for well over a decade at this point, and we are a known quantity. We just want a happy life like everyone else. That's it.
I often laugh that some religious people most likely spend more time thinking about gay sex than we do. Which is once a week if that for us.
EU countries are very difficult to migrate to. Their standards for residency are just not possible for most of us. I've desperately wanted to become an EU resident/citizen for the last 30 years, but simply do not meet the criteria for any of the countries.
But thank you very much for the welcoming invitation.
That's not good. I mean seriously God is going to punish America. We don't know when or how but it's going to bad. If you are a God Fearing Republican, please evacuate now! Mexico, Canada, Cuba. It doesn't matter just get out of America before it's too late! And stay out! For your safety. Think of the children.
Russia. Russia's the right answer. Favorite 4th of July vacation spot for more than one US congressperson. Might as well go early for the winter holidays.
Oh if he thinks America is gunna burn because of the gays he shouldn't come to Canada. We legalized gay marriage a decade before the states. By his logic we are long overdue to be a smoking crater.
The best part is when a natural disaster hits which it will because that’s how weather and the earth work, you get to have these Christlike holy people doing gods bidding when they stand there and say “I told you so, this is what you get.” Fucking idiotically sick hypocrites
Considering LGBTQ+ is a protected group in the USA, surely the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's comments are tantamount to criminal harassment if not hate motivated harassment.
Considering LGBTQ+ is a protected group in the USA
[citation needed]
As far as I understand, the US "Equality Act" fizzled out the last time it tried to make its way through the US parliament. That would codify LGBTQ+ protections into actual law in the US. The closest thing I can find is a Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ protections are covered under the Civil Rights Act in Bostock v. Clayton County, but the Supreme Court is a fickle beast, and I doubt they would rule the same way today if it were challenged again.
We don't have hate crimes. That's not a concept that exists legally. As for harrassment, I don't think it'd stand in court, and good luck suing the Speaker of the House
Or maybe he is too busy giving children cancer? Or maybe trapping children under rubble with the decaying remains of their family? Or maybe watching a child's organs fail from malnutrition? Or maybe god is listening to their Spotify playlist "mating calls of the last of their species"? Or perhaps they're watching their favorite reality tv show "active shooter event", new episodes every week.
Probably not though. Who has time for such trivial concerns when there are more important issues in this world like who people like to kiss and what genitals they prefer.
Last week, there was a house fire in my state in which two kids died. I realize that there's a lot that I don't know. But I'm pretty sure even I could come up with a fucking plan for the universe THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE A FOUR AND A ONE YEAR OLD TO BURN TO DEATH.
They don’t. Most times, they are just hateful people. I’m sure there are some that are in the closet, but on the whole, they are just hateful. The opposite of what their god wants.
Don't worry though, God won't be mad anymore if Republicans win. Nothing will change, but God will no longer be mad. God is only mad if Democrats are in charge.
Also the line in the Bible about respecting the government authority only applies if a Republican is president. Otherwise it's totes not a sin to disrespect them.
This week, Johnson is delivering the keynote speech at a gala for the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL), a Christian Nationalist group with ties to massively influential conservative groups.
"[...] I cannot conclude anything other than America is hanging on by a thread.”
You know what really pisses me off? When they say shit like "identifying" as lgbtq which sounds very close to "it's a choice to be gay".
If the above two statements are true (which they are not in context to this post) then being a straight white male is also a choice! There's no double standard here!
Which logically, if it's a choice either way then these straight white men are just as gay as everyone else, they're just choosing to be straight!
The only reason I could imagine for someone to believe they choose their sexuality is if they're in denial. "Of course every man wants to fuck another man, resisting that urge is a test of righteousness" is a common thought among religious homophobes.
It's not so much race itself as it's the privilege. Outside of literal royalty, there's nobody more privileged than a rich and powerful conservative Christian cishet white man with good healthcare for free in the US.
The color of his skin doesn't inherently make the Jericho Johnson a worse person, but it without question makes him more privileged, which makes him more of a hypocrite when he tries to play the victim.
Hey Mike, you are the depravity. You outed yourself as an anti-American neofascist when you tried to overthrow democracy and replace it with a dictatorship.
Imagine giving an entire species free will to do whatever they want, then getting pissed off because of how a % of that species decides to find pleasure and get into relationships, and then collectively punishing a specific geographical region based on that small %.
Also those same Americans who think that go off their nuts if you suggest America isn’t the greatest place on earth. Seems like, for all the gayness, it’s doing fine* and yet basically any country that has rules against being gay is also in a range of pretty shitty states.
*America is not doing fine, but largely in the same way a lot of places aren’t under capitalism.
The weirdest part is if an uprising ever happen in the US due to their decades of terrible policy making; they'll blame the gays and Muslims for it all. So yes, their technically right...
Again with the fear mongering over people that mean absolutely no harm to you as a human and are not ruining the country at all, maybe just to your career for being a prick
Pretty sure Jesus would say "love thy LGBTQIA+ neighbor" if he were present, but no, gotta crusade against the minorities because of some Old Testament law that was fulfilled by Jesus's sacrifice in the New Testament anyways
Not to mention the perpetual insinuation of America = Ancient Israel 2.0 which is a load of crap, this is an agnostic nation and always was
Yeah, Jesus atleast according to the bible basically hung out exclusively with the downcast and downtrodden of society. If Jesus was alive in the modern times hed be that socialist dude who works at a rehab facility and hangs out at a gay nightclub trying to convince the bartenders to unionize because his friends like the drinks.
This "reasoning" is quite similar to what patriarch Kirill of Moskov declared a year ago, with the difference that it referred to the depraved "West" (not US specifically). He was harshly criticized by western media and even ridiculed for being expression of a retrograde and superstitious approach to religion.
Ironically, now the most democratic country of the world, the homeland of freedom itself, is having its political (not even religious) leaders telling basically the same thing.
I’m always baffled by these charts. How is anything under North Korea? I seriously struggle to think of anything worse that isn’t a nationwide literal concentration camp.
The list is interesting to be sure, but as with most linear rankings of large datasets it leaves lots of room for debate. But I think that's the point. It's not meant to be used as a rhetorical sledgehammer to silence discussion the way you have used it here.
It's kind of shocking how many of them have an actual monarchy still, with real actual powers over the government despite claims that they are mostly symbolic. Top of the list, Norway, still has a King. New Zealand, still a colony with a King. Finland and Iceland actually have elected presidents. Sweden, curators of the democracy ranking list, still have a monarchy. Each monarch claims they are only symbolic, but if that's true and these countries are truly the more perfect democracies they claim to be, one has to wonder why the people have kept such oligarchs in a position of power over them. In some cases the power seems to have only passed from the monarch to the parliament out of custom, not actual legislation or constitution.
I'm having difficulty with the bit where you call the USA the "homeland of freedom itself". I know Americans like to believe they live in the best country in the world but the evidence to the country is pretty substantial.
Personally I think that a free country probably doesn't have a police force that's killed more of its own citizens than a hostile nation state could ever hope to achieve.
I was being sarcastic, and I had to edit that sentence multiple times before publishing to eliminate more polemic bits. I try to follow the etiquette but sometimes my bad temper emerges.
Did anyone read the email? It’s basically out of 1940. Also,
Johnson may not realize that the reason why more youth identified as non-heterosexual in the CDC’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey was because it changed its questions on sexual identity. The most recent YRBSS survey included the two following new options for students to describe their sexual identities: “I am not sure about my sexual identity (questioning),” or, “I describe my sexual identity in some other way.”
Lmao. “NO! You have to be SURE about it! Have straight sex NOW!”
It's cool, but on most services (unsure on Lemmy, which might not need it because it's slower, though it probably is even worse because of federation) that number is more of an estimate. That's doubly true for things like YouTube that are distributed across many server locations. You are likely not the only person who saw it go from 665 to 665.
"Can't smite even one guy without everyone going all New Testament on you and writing about it in the newspaper", said the Lord when asked for a comment.
Fine way to feel about your neighbor (hell, most of my neighbors are in the same political cult), but this guy gets to decide what the House votes on, so I'd prefer his beliefs line up with objective reality a little bit better.
If all Americans went out and voted in their congressional elections, you guys wouldn't be in this mess. I worry that the US will fall into fascism not because of Christian nationalists, but because of excessive political apathy.
If all Americans went out and voted in their congressional elections
Ever hear of gerrymandering?
While you're at it, try counting the polling places per capita in blue neighborhoods versus red ones.
When you're done with that, check how many polling places per capita colleges have, how many college students have to travel several states on a Tuesday in order to vote.
Then check how many voters are struck from the rolls using flimsy excuses.
Lastly, check how difficult it is for the working poor to get enough time off work, childcare etc.
If all Americans COULD vote, everything would be a lot better, but victim blaming without doing a goddamn thing about voting rights like neoliberals are doing isn't helping.
All I'm hearing are excuses. Polling places do exist, and even with Gerrymandering if everyone went out and voted it wouldn't matter as much. Stop whining and just vote next time.
Not exactly. All Christians are at threat from the wrath of God. That's what Hell is.
I think the real scary takeaway here is that what he's saying is, provided nothing is done about it, good Christians will be punished alongside the "depraved".
Personally I'd call it a call to action, but good luck proving that.
I don't subscribe to the assertion that most anti homosexual activists are closeted but this guy for sure is. His "son" and jerk off monitoring plus this type of statement is pretty clear evidence that he really wants dick but is terrified of acting on it.
15 eOutside are fthe dogs gand sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous1 will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: xneither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,2 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
19 Now bthe works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, cdivisions, 21 envy,1 drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that dthose who do2 such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
5 For you may be sure of this, that ueveryone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (vthat is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
9 understanding this, that the slaw is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
14 sStrive for peace with everyone, and for the tholiness uwithout which no one will see the Lord.
ESV. Additional letters within text are links to cross-references to other texts.
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."
Ephesians 6:5-8
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord."
Colossians 3:22-24
"Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them"
Titus 2:9-10
“Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse.”
Peter 2:18
Yeah, we should definitely get our morals from a book that supports slavery.
How is it that much different from now? Are we all not wage slaves? Have you ever had a good boss? They are your master and you are their slave, until you choose to end employment or they set you free, which that's the only difference in the current vs "traditional" slavery.
Most of the time, it'll be better for the "slave" to be true and loyal to their master. Especially, if the master is a True Christian and a righteous master. Last point being supported by the following. Directly after Ephesians 6:5-8 is verse 9." Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master[c] and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him."
The morality that the Bible teaches is simply the most correct for all of human history. And, yes I understand many do not follow the Way the Truth, and The Life which is Christ Jesus aka God's will for mankind.
Having said that, the laws of a nation are what they are and those are what the state should follow, and those ought to be enforced for all its citizens without preference to any particular group.
Geez, the Bible sure does say a lot of needlessly nasty and hateful things that are used by religious bigots as justification for their cruel actions—almost like it’s the flawed product of ancient human cultures and their outdated values, and not a timeless divinely-inspired message from a perfect, unchanging, infinitely-wise being who loves and cares deeply about every single human being.