on Fox News, Johnson accused the Biden administration of allowing migrants into the country to expand the party’s voting base.
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Racial justice and civil rights organizations have been clear in their concern over politicians who spread this false conspiracy. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) wrote in their “From Scarcity to Solidarity” guide that the “great replacement” conspiracy theory takes for granted two racist assumptions based in a scarcity mentality: 1) that the United States should be run by white people and 2) that white people must be in a numerical majority to thrive. The guide states that this assumption “does not hold space for white people – for white Christians – to have shared belonging and democratic participation with people of other races or religions.”
Vanessa Cardenas, the executive director of America’s Voice Education Fund, told reporters in August, “When elected officials amplify dangerous rhetoric like the white nationalist invasion and replacement conspiracy theories, they create a climate that fosters political violence.”
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Elsewhere in his remarks, Johnson claimed that if immigrants did not fit into his ideas of assimilation, the nation and its alleged identity would face destruction. “Sound immigration policy is you allow us to maintain our identity as a nation-state,” he stated.
[Insert: "would face destruction." These white Christian zealots love apocalyptic phrases. The words they know conjure up end-time emotion, in their people. ]
----- [ Add Dec. 5, 2023 - Ignorance is bliss for Johnson and his cohort. Hell for those whom Johnson sees as born with an unnatural genetic make-up. His Bible-based position is so scientifically wrong, it's suffocating for millions. See:
Sexual Orientation: Categories or Continuum? Commentary on Bailey et al. (2016) Ritch C. Savin-Williams Savin-Williams@cornell.eduView all authors and affiliations Volume 17, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100616637618
Abstract Bailey et al. (2016) have provided an excellent, state-of-the-art overview that is a major contribution to our understanding of sexual orientation. However, whereas Bailey and his coauthors have examined the physiological, behavioral, and self-report data of sexual orientation and see categories, I see a sexual and romantic continuum. After noting several objections concerning the limitations of the review and methodological shortcomings characteristic of sexual-orientation research in general, I present evidence from research investigating in-between sexualities to support an alternative, continuum-based perspective regarding the nature of sexual orientation for both women and men. A continuum conceptualization has potential implications for investigating the prevalence of nonheterosexuals, sexual-orientation differences in gender nonconformity, causes of sexual orientation, and political issues. In “Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science,” J. Michael Bailey, one of the foremost sex researchers of our time, whose footprint is clearly evident throughout the manuscript, has assembled an impressively diverse and eminent array of scholars who tackle the complexities of sexual orientation. For the most part, they have accomplished this task with excellence and within a scientific framework.
However, I have one major objection to their overview: Whereas they approach the field of sexual orientation from a categorical perspective, I interpret the same data as being indicative of a sexual and romantic continuum. The empirical evidence convinces me that sexual orientation should not be reduced to two or three (gay, straight, bisexual) discrete categories. And, if discrete groups exist, there are more than three and they are likely not to be separate but to be overlapping—a continuum (Savin-Williams, 2014; Savin-Williams, Cash, McCormack, & Rieger, in press).
Biblical bigots as Johnson are a blight on any society in which a majority are more into growth rather than being stuck for fucking ever in insular and exclusive ideological mind-sets. -----
In 2005, Johnson and ADF (known then as Alliance Defense Fund) organized a protest against an initiative aiming to counter anti-gay bias in schools in which he told reporters .. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7477978 , “You can call [homosexuality] sinful or destructive – ultimately it’s both.” In his role at ADF, Johnson also pushed for a federal ban on gay marriage and fought extending benefits to partners of city employees who are in same-sex relationships.
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Another hate group celebrated Johnson’s win. Tony Perkins, head of the anti-LGBTQ+ Family Research Council, appeared on the conservative outlet Newsmax to applaud the new speaker. Newsmax introduced Perkins as a “very close friend” of Johnson. Perkins confirmed their relationship, saying he has known the new speaker for 25 years. “I’m so proud of Mike,” he said. Perkins also said he believed Johnson’s “sense of “confidence and peace and tranquility,” as well as his reputation as “a nice guy” will help him get things done in Congress. “It's going to be a new day,” Perkins said. He said Johnson told him a similar thing the morning of Oct. 25.
“I was talking to him as he was working on his speech,” Perkins said. “He said, ‘It’s a new day.’”
Hatewatch reached out to Perkins via email about his relationship with Johnson but did not receive a reply.
A commitment to Christian nationalism and a ‘biblical’ republic
While Family Research Council is legally organized as an association of churches, it acts as the political activist arm and policy shop for the Christian religious right and infuses Christian dominionist and Christian nationalist ideas into policy materials and event content.
[What is Christofascism? [...] Christofascism refers to use of the faith of Chritianity as a cover for totalitarian ideology. This radical phenomenon is embodied among American Christians today in the various Militia movements, White Supremacist, and Christian Identity movements, and where these radical, armed, and Christian racist groups overlap with the Pro-Life movement and the right wing of the American political landscape, including the fringes of the Republican party. Posted 2017 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=129165956 Much has happened in the six years since. Christofascism is no longer in the fringes of the GOP. Looking at the powers that be in the party today it would be fair to say, in large part Christofascism is the GOP.]
Political Research Associates’ Fredrick Clarkson has described dominionism as the “theocratic idea that Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society?by taking control of political and cultural institutions.” Similarly, Anthea Butler, professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, describes Christian nationalism as the idea that America is a Christian nation and that its leaders should be Christian.
In op-eds, podcasts and various public appearances, Johnson has repeatedly presented the United States as irrevocably rooted in an ultra-conservative Christian “biblical” worldview. The concept of a biblical world view is foundational to both Christian nationalist and dominionist thinking and movements.
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