Johnson Once Called Jews “Enemies Of The Gospel”

The Huffington Post reports:

In 2004, Johnson was the lead attorney for Stockwell Place Elementary when the Bossier Parish public school got sued for pushing Christianity on its students. A set of Jewish parents sued the school after learning it was holding prayer sessions, teaching Christian songs in class and promoting a teacher-led prayer group called Stallions for Christ that met during recess.

Johnson spoke about the lawsuit at his church, the Airline Drive Church of Christ in Shreveport, before taking on the case.

He warned the congregation what was at stake with cases like the Jewish family suing to keep Christian activities out of a public school. “The ultimate goal of the enemy is silencing the gospel,” said Johnson, according to an April 2004 story in the Shreveport Times about the lawsuit. “This is spiritual warfare.”

Read the full article. There’s much more. According to the piece, the Jewish family ended up leaving the state to “escape the harassment and threats” their children faced due to the lawsuit. Johnson and the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom settled the suit in 2005, but most of the case had been dismissed because the family no longer lived in Louisiana.

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