{"id":1571,"date":"2023-10-31T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T01:00:23","slug":"the-polite-zealotry-of-mike-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/the-polite-zealotry-of-mike-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polite Zealotry of Mike Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2000s, Johnson was an attorney and spokesman for the Alliance Defense Fund, known today as Alliance Defending Freedom. It <a href=\"https:\/\/adflegal.org\/about?__cf_chl_tk=HyaRZaEXDBXEOtTEzYHUtTYUL8RW49o2Pi06pHx62w4-1698355986-0-gaNycGzNENA\" data-event-element=\"inline link\">describes itself<\/a> as \u201cone of the leading Christian law firms committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/25\/politics\/mike-johnson-gay-sex-criminalization-kfile\/index.html\" data-event-element=\"inline link\">has written in favor of criminalizing gay sex<\/a>. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-abortion-holocaust\/\" data-event-element=\"inline link\">called<\/a> abortion a \u201cholocaust.\u201d And he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-abortion-holocaust\/\" data-event-element=\"inline link\">argued<\/a> that \u201cprevailing judicial philosophy\u201d in the 2005 right-to-die case involving Terri Schiavo, a severely brain-damaged Florida woman, was \u201cno different than Hitler\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/10\/polite-zealotry-mike-johnson\/675845\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2000s, Johnson was an attorney and spokesman for the Alliance Defense Fund, known today as Alliance Defending Freedom. It describes itself as \u201cone of the leading Christian law firms committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.\u201d Johnson has written in favor of criminalizing &#8230; <a title=\"The Polite Zealotry of Mike Johnson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/the-polite-zealotry-of-mike-johnson\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Polite Zealotry of Mike Johnson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,41,137],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion-strategy","tag-congress","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}