Extreme anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA Republican Mike Johnson was named Speaker of the House this week and nobody is happier for him than… the Log Cabin Republicans?
In a statement issued shortly after Johnson was elected with a razor slim majority vote by his Republican colleagues in the U.S. House, the group congratulated him and then encouraged him to “work to implement an agenda that advances the interests of all Americans”.
Log Cabin Republicans congratulates Rep. Michael Johnson on his election to become the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives. As Speaker and the leader of the GOP in the House, it will be imperative that he work to implement an agenda that advances the interests of all Americans. Speaker Johnson previously united all sides of the conservative movement in the House Republican Conference. This same effort is needed to promote rational, common-sense proposals to maintain and expand the Republican House majority and will be required for the remainder of the term ahead and for his success, that of the GOP and indeed the nation.
OK, first, WTF?
Johnson’s record on LGBTQ+ issues is truly abysmal.
Prior to becoming a god-fearing MAGA lawmaker, the 51-year-old worked as an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, filing lawsuits against same-sex marriage, same-sex adoption, and same-sex marital benefits.
Per LGBTQ Nation:
Johnson has previously said that same-sex marriage will lead to “chaos and sexual anarchy” and “place our entire democratic system in jeopardy by eroding its foundation.” He claimed legalizing same-sex marriage would lead to “pedophiles” seeking legal protections for having sex with kids and people trying to marry their pets. He has also said, “Homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural … ultimately harmful and costly for everyone.”
No decent, rational, self-respecting gay person should be congratulating the guy for anything.
Secondly, the Log Cabin Republicans’ claim that Johnson “previously united all sides of the conservative movement” is simply false. If anything, he’s been the exact opposite of a unifier at a time when public acceptance of queer people, even among conservatives, is growing stronger and stronger.
And third, the group’s noticeable inability to say “LGBTQ+” or “queer” anywhere in its statement, instead relying on a more general blanket term of “all Americans”, is weak, although not surprising given that its members are mostly a bunch of homophobic homosexuals who’ve dedicated their lives to rolling back their own rights.
Last night, Johnson sat down with Sean Hannity at Fox News for his first major network interview. When asked about his past opposition of all things LGBTQ+, he tried to distance himself from his record, claiming he “can’t remember” ever saying antigay things, despite the fact that there’s video of him being homophobic currently circulating on the internet.
Now, here’s how folx on Twitter X have been responding to Log Cabin Republicans’ statement on Johnson…
Did y’all miss the part where he called you deviants and wants you jailed??
— WTAF, America?! (@FightingForDem7) October 26, 2023
This makes no sense. Mike Johnson doesn’t accept you.
— R.Bird (@zzzrobo) October 27, 2023
Speaker Johnson wants to re-criminalize sodomy and abolish same sex marriage. How can supporting him be in your self interests at all? This is one of many reasons why I am no longer a Republican. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
— Mark Scott 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@MarkSco53500888) October 26, 2023
Is this account run by 🤡s?
— Gregory Schmidt (@gregoryschmidt) October 26, 2023
These MAGA cult members are actually praising and congratulating someone who believes their very existence is disgusting and should be deemed illegal. The extent of their self hatred and loathing is to be pitied.
— CIGAR PIG (@thecigarpig) October 26, 2023
Why are there ANY LGBTQ Republicans? Mike Johnson is now third in line to the Presidency, and he thinks you’re disgusting. pic.twitter.com/PAIlpS3hLU
— 15 Months Til Speaker Jeffries (@LynnoVen) October 26, 2023
He hates you.
— BlueCinder (@BlueCinderUSA) October 26, 2023
Embarrassing. An openly homophobic congressman was just put in a position of great power. 2nd in line for the presidency.
— Ben Buehler (@BuehlerBen) October 26, 2023
Most the chapters seem to overwhelming support Trump, who supports the LGBT community, and you don’t say you’ll be carefully watching him?
Disappointing.
That bitch literally called you pedophiles and said you should be thrown in prison for being gay. You sad little dummies.
— Dennis Perkins Will Never Pay Apartheid Boy A Dime (@DennisPerkins5) October 27, 2023
Of course you would. He hates gays almost as much as you do.
— Jugghead Graham (@JuggheadG) October 26, 2023
abfab
Thank you, Queerty. Despite what some people say (Ronbo and other right wing queers), you actually DO have a soul and humanity.
The Log Cabin boys are pretending somthing—I don’t know what and I don’t know why.
Mike Johnson. Do you feel the love tonight?
ZzBomb
The Log Cabin’s desperate need for acknowledgement by a club that wants nothing to do with them is getting really pathetic. It’s just sad.
abfab
Let’s get some of the trolls here to infiltrate and crash the parties they hold underground in Northern Virginia. It’s a homo hot bed of preppy Sperry Topsider wearing conservative queens.
My2CentsWorth
This article was written a few days ago but I will add my 2 cents worth of comments.
NAMELY, it is beyond pathetic.
I recall the incident when they wanted to put up a booth (or table) in Republican event in Texas. They were officially told that they could not participate [beyond] buying tickets to attend. I wonder how many of the LCRs followed up that rejections with buying tickets and attending.
If I were wanting to be a Republican (and I was way back before the party became the monster it is now) and was rejected I would create my own political party. There are enough of them to create a party.
bachy
Conservative gay men finding Johnson acceptable are not our biggest worry, as they comprise only a tiny percentage of the voting public.
More concerning is how many American voters in the general public will dutifully fall in line behind this kind of fundamentalist religion-based ideology in future elections? What is generating the kind of fearfulness that leads average Americans to regress in this manner?
Kangol2
Good question, bachy, but more than one study over the last few years shows church attendance and membership falling, and belief in organized religion slipping, in the US, so I see the reactionary responses and attempts to engineer a Christian takeover as defensive maneuvers by Johnson and the Christian Dominionists. It says quite a bit that they have set up a human machinery to pack the courts, to take over legislatures and school boards, etc., and to me the greater danger is the laws they implement vs. average Americans regressing and falling in line. One of the biggest ironies in all of this is that on the one hand, you have a truly religious person who attends Mass every week (Biden, whom they hate, and on the other hand, a Caligula-like figure, who didn’t even know end of the Bible was up (Don the Con), whom they worship. Beyond perverse.
My2CentsWorth
Kangol2 makes a good point. I would like to read more about this oddness. I have been grappling with the fact that the typical [mostly] Caucasians who support the off the extremists don’t realize that a lot of what the elected Republicans advocate will make their lives worst off. I read once that the race issue plays a significant part of this oddity. Racists would rather support agendas that hurts them because the agendas will hurt Blacks and others.
decrans
I love Queerty posting press releases from HRC as “evidence.” What’s next? CBN’s Faithwire posting a sidebar poll from the Family Research Council? Here’s the truth of the matter: Support for gay marriage has declined correspondingly with the rabid HRC money push. Enter Gallup, a non HRC press release: “Last year, a record-high 71% of U.S. adults said gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable. The figure has fallen back this year to 64%, returning to a level last seen in 2019.” That’s journalism, Queerty.
abfab
You love nothing. You are incapable of love. So stop. The word love and YOU should never be used in the same breath. You stink of hate. Even your name sounds like a pesticide.
FreddieW
@decrans
So remind me why you’re here. You’re detransitioning and you’re opposed to gay marriage. So you aren’t L or G or T. You’re here to trash equality in general?
decrans
And here comes Abcrabs’s mind poops. What’s the matter, Hun? No aracne song lyrics on Wikipedia tonight? Bless your heart.
decrans
I’m here as an illustration of someone evolving on their views. It ain’t fiction. And again, you’re welcome to peruse my X/Twitter feed going back to 2007. I used to be a socialist and a lib. I am Exhibit A for how the LGBTQ ideology damages people. And I love speaking out about it. No fuc–s given. Zero.
abfab
A person who would hit on one of your links would have to be a complete asshole. Like you.
decrans
I’ll be sure to mention that to the Moms for Liberty, honeybun. They started booking me to talk about my gender detransition last week. Thanks for the tip.
FreddieW
Sorry, I’ve never been on Twitter and have no intention of changing that. Not on Facebook or Instagram, either.
You were a socialist and a liberal and now you’re …? An authoritarian? There’s a large political spectrum, and both ends are toxic.
FreddieW
“Moms for Liberty” sounds like a misnomer. Whose liberties do they support besides liberties for people like themselves? Are they like Concerned Women For America?
decrans
I’m independent. I could see myself voting Republican. I will not be voting Democrat ever again. Liberties not exposing children to sexualizing materials. I start there.
FreddieW
Oh, for God’s sake. But thank you for being honest. You’re aren’t here because you’re seeking community with anyone.
decrans
It is a misnomer. However, I co-sign their modus operandi. Definitely.
decrans
Who is here for community? Is there a potluck?
FreddieW
Well, I’m here because it’s a place where gay people read articles and comment, and I’m gay. So yes, I’m here for community.
Fenwick22
@decrans schtick is always the same. A self loathing troll whose only goal is to try and stir up shit. It just makes it easier to scroll right on past to an actual intelligent, relevant comment.
decrans
And yet, you scrolled right on past and made two comments. Very puzzling.
inbama
@decrans
Interestingly, this hasn’t happened in the U.K where support for gays is stable while support for the Pronoun Police is crashing. Probably because RadFems are more of a presence there. They and the tabloids been keeping tabs on things like the number of rapists and murderers who conveniently identify as trans when convicted and the gullible judges who then send them to women’s prisons. Here the dark side of “self-ID” is pretty much blacked out in mainstream news
James
Get lost hag. YOU ARE A WASTE OF TIME.
LumpyPillows
We are under attack, but it isn’t LGB people that are the target or the cause. It is the radical left and their social-political gender war. They are dragging us down with them. It is the gender anarchists, the transvestites demanding they are women and the other myriad assaults against rationality from the college crazies. They are doing a lot of damage – they are smug and hateful, as represented by their attack dogs here on Queerty. People will vote against them because they are so easy to hate and take us down with them.
All that said, Mike Johnson is not good for any of us.
barryaksarben
Decrans our ideology didnt damage you . You were way f*** damaged long before you ever heard of us. I have to laugh at. how you are detransitioning since you couldn’t find anyone to even like you let alone have sex with you no matter which sex you presented. Any fool can see Mom for liberty are just using you much worse than our community EVER used you. I think the fact none of us used you at all is your damage
dbmcvey
Freddy, everything this person says is a lie.
decrans
Here comes Barry with his assumptions. What’s the matter, Bear? Can’t debate the Gallup poll? Have a seat.
dbmcvey
We don’t need to assume that this “decrans” is a phony. Everything they say is a lie. Everything they talk about is some kind of stupid right wing conspiracy touchstone.
This troll is a fool.
decrans
Gallup is a right-wing conspiracy? You sound insane, Daveyboy.
decrans
And to Barry’s misogyny-rooted comment. I’ve slept with thousands of Latino men in my lifetime. Here’s where your ideology damages people: with false promises of the idea that you can switch genders. You cannot. That’s not how science works. It’s the equivalent of right-wingers swallowing horse pills, you blithering idiot. And when it damages kids, I speak up. I’m not sorry, Bear. Deal with it.
dbmcvey
Gallup is a poll hon. And Nate Silver has found that Gallup is lease reliable of polls, so, yeah, gallup’s a thing.
decrans
However, it’s better than a Human Rights Campaign press release, little honeybun.
Other polls that have shown dips in gay marriage include:
1.) Texas Clear Politics
2.) Pew Research Center
Even The Advocate admitted the dip. Those damn right-wing institutions!
dbmcvey
Is it? You’re a lying troll who wants to end marriage equality. FU troll.
decrans
Such scintillating rebuttals and counterarguments, Davey. As always.
abfab
This little boy is still sucking on Anita Bryant’s dried up nipples.
barryaksarben
Lumpy you are a complete fool if you think it is radical fems that. are the only reason. the big strong mass you worship hat eus. They have ALLWAY hated gay men and it has NOTHING TO DO with any other group than gay men who they disrespect us for engaging in. sodomy, PERIOD . go ahead and think that if we all act butch the would would be all kumbaiya. idiot
LumpyPillows
Barry can’t even get his insults under the right post. Sad. Why are you so nasty?
decrans
I prefer Phyllis. But thank you.
abfab
Not you, dick. We’re talking about Mike Jonhson.
Fenwick22
He thinks Queerty revolves around him, the little speck of a troll.
dbmcvey
I can believe you’d prefer Phyllis. She’s been dead for 7 years just like your soul.
decrans
Yeah, but I’m alive and well and getting more pro-bono activism work talking about my gender de-transition. Shrugs. Aligning with the local Moms for Liberty chapter has increased dance card bookings. No Labels Party during the week and Moms for Liberty on the weekend, Daveyboy. Befriending Chloe Cole’s de-trans crew on social media. I never thought it would be like this. I just believed your propaganda that people could change genders. That’s on me.
decrans
We? Plural? Is this the same voice that randomly posts song lyrics from the 1970s?
abfab
Yes decrans. I think, in fact, we would like to somehow bond with you. To be of help. Sending up the while flag. I surrender. The 70’s
All Is Well
Song by Chicago
All is well again
I think I’m gonna be alright
And I’m feeling better
Again
Loving you was sad
Affairs of timing that were bad
And the laughing ended
Again
There was a time
When I thought I was fooling myself
But now, I’ll take a bow
‘Cause I’m free and easy
Songwriters: Robert Lamm / Robert William Lamm
Kangol2
The Log Cabinettes are beyond abject. To praise someone who openly and overtly hates you is about as extreme in self-loathing and hate as you can get. They’ve canceled themselves, again.
Now: is Queerty going to report on racist porn star Sergeant Miles pleading guilty to participating in Don the Con’s January 6, 2021 attempted coup?
LumpyPillows
Perhaps they are trying to reach out and help him moderate is positions now that he is speaker. It is the only card they have to play.
barryaksarben
they haven’t had an actual gay member since the 70s. NONE of us hate ourselves THAT much. I remember when they like Ronnie cuz he was going to make them money but by now even the very shallowest of them know money doesn’t buy you out of the camps. I can think of only a few 1% yrs who would call themselves that Richard. (I cry of shame after I come) Grenell and Peter THeil are the only 2 I can think of both of whom are so self loathing they are trumpets
abfab
THIEL! Now there’s a piece of work.
Mister P
The civil rights of all Americans should be protected and not subject to polls of popularity.
Ryan99
It is decades past time for these GINOs (gays in name only) to give up and just admit they have an abuse fetish. Republican straight boy ain’t never gonna let you suck his dick no matter how many times you let him stomp your face.
LumpyPillows
That seems oddly specific.
barryaksarben
GINOS is perfect. absolutely perfect and LUMPY we are LOOKING right at you bitch
abfab
And how oddly specific she is.
LumpyPillows
Lol, the low intellect duo with their insults again.
James
EVERYBODY HATES THE LOG CABIN CLUB. NO LOSS THERE.
abfab
Online membership lists can be found and then printed here. Take a peek on the DC Chapter Site. Observe how they centered one person of color, dressed in holiday, clownish attire under the Christmas tree.
Let’s begin naming names, starting with George Santos.. Come out, come out, Georgette!
abfab
Adam Savit. Deplorable.
abfab
He’s fed up. Poor thing.
DC Log Cabin Republicans
July 19, 2019 ·
DC chapter President Adam Savit rebuts a particularly vicious piece attacking LGBT Trump supporters last week in the Washington Blade
Log Cabin Republicans
July 19, 2019 ·
Great piece written by our Washington DC Chapter President Adam Savit – gay conservative Trump supporters are diverse, and are fed up with the righteous indignation from the left.
Baron Wiseman
@abfab
How old are you?
dbmcvey
How old are you Oxymoron?
abfab
George Santos will never tell you his age. Imagine what an idiot someone would have to be to give this Baron shithead personal information. Shoo, George!
abfab
Washington Blade March 28 2023
Log Cabin Republicans of D.C., the local chapter of the national LGBTQ Republican organization with the same name, earlier this month elected former Trump administration official Thad Brock as its new president.
Brock replaces longtime GOP activist Adam Savit, who served as the D.C. Log Cabin group’s president for the past five years. The local group held its officers election on March 7 during a meeting in which U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) appeared as a guest speaker.
Brock served from 2018 to 2019 during the Trump administration as Assistant to the Administrator at the U.S. General Services Administration, according to his LinkedIn page.
James
Log Cabin losers…… naht zi trolls.
barryaksarben
so the only ones in the entire world are DC insiders jsut sucking up. Im from Iowa and Joni Ernst is a dumb as a rock douche and I wouldn’t listen to her if SHE paid me
FreddieW
You’re posting the names of gay men using your pseudonym. So classy, old man.
dbmcvey
Are there actually any gay people in the Log Cabin Club anymore?
abfab
Abe Lincoln’s family is suing. I suppose a Log Cabin is more suitable for the straight acting Gay men who formed this ridiculous mess of an organization.
Imagine tho how many more Gays would flock if they had only called it The Penthouse Suite Club.
Log Cabins……………..how manly and rugged. Closet cases only, please
dmarcus
This is why I don’t find Log Cabins and LGBTQ Republicans credible. They support anti LGBT rhetoric and politicians but at the same time believes the queer community doesn’t need anymore protections but think Republicans will protect their gay culture. Like I don’t understand it. I have never seen a powerful Republican in office blatantly supporting LGBTQ ppl both verbally & with legislations. And no not Trump, he endorsed so many anti LGBTQ and racists candidates. In Texas there was a Republican convention and the Log Cabin was banned from it and they were still boot licking to get in. Dudes, that’s a clear sign that straight Republicans don’t gaf about y’all. They are such hypocrites that it makes it ten times harder for liberals to fight and keep our rights to be out and proudly queer. Like Caitlyn Jenner, a trans Republican who said will support trans youth but changed her tune after Republicans started a culture war on trans women in sports. Jenner still supported them even though conservatives misgendered her, dead named her, blamed her for the “rise” in trans youth, Libs of TikTok bad mouthed her, and Gays Against Groomers as well. And a lot of LGBTQ republicans are supporting Ron DeSantis just to own the liberals. PLEASE a queer Republican, give me facts on five Republican politicians who created laws that help the LGBTQ community.
winemaker
I never ceases how the gay community kisses the asses of the liberals who give them nothing but crumbs and play them for fools and treat them along with everybody else like walking piggy banks for higher and higher taxes all while the quality of life hits the toilet. California is a perfect example of this and San Francisco, where I was born and come from a pre 1906 earthquake family who if alive would say “what the hell happened here”? Really it might surprise many gay people the liberals don’t give a rats behind about anybody other than themselves and look at the gay community, the Latinos and blacks as sure things come election years. This in’t a liberal or conservative thing, it’s a common sense thing.
decrans
Thank you, Winemaker. That’s why I vacated liberalism.
abfab
You two should get a room. You’re already in love with each other. But save the tired stories about your family who survived the earthquake. You’ll bore him.
Stefano
You’re not out of the woods yet. Polls show DT and JB neck and neck in the polls (whatever the poll). So there are at least half of our citizens who are willing to vote for a felon…that says a lot about your American “values”.The funny thing is that DT doesn’t campaign at all. He makes it look like this guy is a lot more powerful than you think.
Stefano
For me, the Gay Republicans are a group of self-destructive gays who envy others who do what they would like to do, but who, out of jealousy, prevent others from doing it. In any case, we can see that your country is really torn in two like never before. Good luck in the next election…just a quick comment: what if Trump isn’t elected after all and doesn’t go to prison? Are we going to see another term of sterile confrontation like you saw between Trump and Buden? Many more years of this circus? Aren’t you a little tired of it all? Are you proud of your fellow citizens?
abfab
Such deep and original questions.
inbama
Unless you go too far like Oscar Wilde, some homosexuals are always able to protect themselves with power and money. That what the Log Cabins are. What Peter Thiel is. What George Santos is. Call them gay if you like, but they don’t really identify with the movement.
But on the flip side, look at the homosexuals at Hamas rallies carrying “Progress” flags under the “Queers for Palestine” banner – totally oblivious to plight of our gay brothers and sisters IN Palestine who are fearful for their lives. This is where runaway “intersectionalism” gets you. Identifying as “Queer” and supporting people who would murder you.
abfab
Debating the Middle East with inbama. Now there’s a good use of your time…….
FreddieW
What’s there to debate? There’s only 1 nation in the Middle East where you might live openly. (Would be a good idea to avoid the ultra-orthodox, though.)
abfab
We’ve already learned how to avoid them HERE, so no problem, Freddy. Go and let us know how you do.
FreddieW
No thanks. I have a list of places I’m working on, and there are none in that part of the world. When I was a Christian, I wanted to visit, but there’s no point in it anymore.
dbmcvey
Well Fred, I’d rather you debate inbama than help him try to take away marriage equality.
FreddieW
I haven’t read that in his posts. I suspect your careless reading skills are at play again.
dbmcvey
He supports conservatives and even if he doesn’t want to end marriage equality the people he supports do.
FreddieW
@dbmcvey
I have to believe you’re too close to the thing you just wrote to see how fanatical it reads.
FreddieW
Here, let me try it. I don’t believe what I’m about to write, but it’s comparable to what you wrote:
You support liberals who support Muslims, and even if you aren’t in favor of oppressing women, many Muslims are. So you’re a misogynist
dbmcvey
Oh honey. Muslims have no power in the US, and “liberals” don’t support them. You, on the other hand are supporting people who have power here and who want to take away our rights. It’s not an even playing field.
I don’t support any religion. I support liberal religions who don’t preach hate, but there aren’t a lot of those. Religion, in general is a poison. But, conservatives have adopted a very conservative religion and the only reason they support Israel is that they believe it has to be destroyed for Jesus to return.
See, I know the “prophecies.”
dbmcvey
I love how conservatives claim both that liberals are atheists but also Muslims. You can’t have it both ways.
I don’t support HAMAS and I don’t support Netanyahu. I’m fine with that.
Trump, who is the leader of the Republican Party criticizes Netanyahu because he congratulated Biden on his win and call HAMAS smart–but you still can find some excuse for that.
dbmcvey
Biden is far more supportive of Israel than the leader of the Republican Party, and is far more condemning of HAMAS. So, Shaves, really? You need to realize where the people who care about you are. Assuming you’re really a gay man.
My2CentsWorth
It is odd that Homosexuals would be supporting Hamas. Supporting the basic rights of ALL people is a good thing but aligning oneself with groups that will get great joy out of killing you is another wacko thing.
FreddieW
@dbmcvey
Ok, got it. You’re a myopic, paranoid fanatic, and you like being that way. Who am I to dissuade you? I don’t have the skill, time, or credentials to help you see more clearly.
abfab
In so many ways, or even just in one way, FREDDY and MY2CENTSWORTH are Log Cabin Republican HOMOSEXUALS. Or they are just myopic.
abfab
@Freddy. Since you don’t have the time or credentials to help DB or anyone you disagree with…..please tell us you have time to help yourself.
And let’s all admit it. Benjamin Netanyahoo BLEW IT. Talk about dropping the ball.
And so now, he kills people because of his failures to protect his country. EVEN THO THEY HAVE THE STRONGEST MILITARY AND THE BEST INTELLIGENCE SERVICES ON THE PLANET.
And don’t try to twist things around to suit yourself. No one supports HAMAS, @MY2CENTS WORTH. That’s just dumb
decrans
Everybody is a Log Cabin Republican. Y’all two are entertaining as hell. The only reason I come back to this shi–show Website.
decrans
Better than The View. Not as good as The Five. Abcrabs has those Judge Jeanine vibes that I live for.
Stefano
@decrans : very funny! I didn’t know this judge…I watched a video on the page of an article about her. So funny to see her speechless after a colleague on The Five reminded her that she got the covid vaccine…when this ‘judge’ had said that the vaccination campaign was Biden’s plan to confiscate guns. Such a good one! Thanks decrans. This makes my day! You Americans are so funny!
FreddieW
@abfab
I daresay they’re probably better company than you are, but you’re the one who knows them by name.
DeeAnnCA
This doesn’t make much sense. Then again, the Log Cabin Republicans never made much sense either.