Posted to the Family Research Council’s website:
Washington is bursting with varied reactions to House Republicans electing U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) as speaker — ranging from “hooray!” to “who?” — but the strangest might be allegations that Speaker Johnson will turn America into a theocracy.
“Welcome to the Republican Era of not even pretending they aren’t forcing their religion on Congress and the American people,” tweeted U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) on Wednesday, in reaction to a clip from Johnson’s inaugural speech. “This is a slippery, dangerous slope to theocracy.”
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) agreed with Huffman’s assessment, “Speaker Mike Johnson? Anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, anti-gun safety, anti-democracy. This is what theocracy looks like.”
“This is just basic Christian belief coming right out of the Bible,” responded David Closson, director of Family Research Council’s Center for Biblical Worldview, “that God is the one that ordains authority. God is the one that gives delegated authority to human beings to wield it on his behalf.” This doctrine is a particular application of God’s sovereign, providential oversight of all human affairs.
Read the full column.
Mike Johnson rose to power ‘after praying through it,’ FRC’s Tony Perkins says https://t.co/N916HtwGob
— The Christian Post (@ChristianPost) October 31, 2023
New US House Speaker Mike Johnson to former LA state rep Tony Perkins –
“we are one of the first covenant marriages, that law that you wrote. It’s worked out – she’s stayed with me this whole time” pic.twitter.com/oCxTokrZYZ
— @natedog155 (@natedog155) October 27, 2023